1Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 3Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 4Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 5Arizona Rural Health Office, Mel ...

BACKGROUND Botswana's medical school graduated its first class in 2014. Given the importance of attracting doctors to rural areas the school incorporated rural exposure throughout its curriculum. AIM This study explored the impact of rural training on students' attitudes towards rural practice. SETTING The University of Botswana family medicine rural training sites, Maun and Mahalapye. ME...

Increasing the quality and quantity of geriatric medicine training for family practice residents is a particular challenge for community-based programs. With support from the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) implemented in 1995 a multi-part project to improve the amount and quality of geriatric medicine education received by family p...

BACKGROUND Combined internal medicine-pediatrics (med-peds) programs may be competing for the same students who would have otherwise chosen family medicine. The degree to which this is happening is not known. METHODS We sent an eight-item questionnaire to new med-peds interns to assess their career plans at different stages of their decision making. Questionnaires were mailed to the directors...

OBJECTIVE To identify the impact of family life on the ways women practice rural medicine and the changes needed to attract women to rural practice. DESIGN Census of women rural doctors in Victoria in 2000, using a self-completed postal survey. SETTING General and specialist practice. SUBJECTS Two hundred and seventy-one female general practitioners and 31 female specialists practising in...

OBJECTIVE To examine where graduates of the Northeastern Ontario Family Medicine (NOFM) residency program in Sudbury and the Family Medicine North (FMN) program in Thunder Bay practise after graduation, using cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. METHODS Data from the Scott's Medical Database were examined. All physicians who graduated from NOFM and FMN between 1993 and 2002 were include...

PURPOSE The University of Missouri School of Medicine developed the Rural Track Pipeline Program (MU-RTPP) to increase the supply and retention of rural physicians statewide. The MU-RTPP features a preadmissions program for rural students (Rural Scholars), a Summer Community Program for rising second-year students, a six-month Rural Track Clerkship (RTC) Program for third-year students, and a R...

OBJECTIVES To examine perceived communication barriers between urban consultants and rural family physicians practising routine and emergency care in remote subarctic Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). DESIGN This study used a mixed-methods design. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through exploratory surveys, comprised of closed and open-ended questions. The quantitative data was...