Health reform and the Affordable Care Act have triggered a renewed interest in strengthening access to primary care services, with a focus on ensuring that the nation has appropriately trained physicians practicing where they are needed. There are about 80 primary care physicians per 100,000 people the United States. Not surprisingly, rural areas have a much lower physician-to-population ratio ...

Introduction Advanced models of delivering primary health care are being implemented in various countries of the world. This is especially true for countries undergoing a healthcare transition in Central Asia, such as Kazakhstan, which obtained independence from Soviet Union in 1991. The Kazakhstan National Program of Health Reform, implemented between 2005-2010, aimed to create an effective sy...

OBJECTIVE To assess the perceived continuing medical education (CME) needs of a cohort of Canadian family physicians. METHODS We distributed a questionnaire survey to Canadian family physicians who became Certificant members of the College of Family Physicians in 2001 and practised outside the province of Quebec. Main outcome measures were self-reported CME needs, professional development nee...

At the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, the Rural Medical Education Program prepares students with the special knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be successful as Family Physicians in rural Illinois. Students in this special medical education track spend four months off-campus on a rural preceptorship under the supervision of a practicing rural family physician. This pos...

OBJECTIVE This study's objective was to determine whether junior medical students' end-of-rotation shelf exam scores varied by the preceptorship county's rurality. METHODS Student learning during rural preceptorship experiences, 1999 to 2005, was assessed using the students' scores on the National Board of Medical Examiners family medicine subject examination. Rurality was measured using both...

To the Editor: Stack et al[1][1] describe a comprehensive opioid reduction protocol in patients with chronic noncancer pain conducted by Family Medicine providers rural community. Although authors multifaceted approach medical and psychoeducational components, 1 key element

The South African Family Practice is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, which strives to provide primary care physicians (and their teams), as well researchers, with broad range of scholarly work in the disciplines family medicine, health care, rural district and other related fields. SAFP publishes original research, clinical reviews, pertinent commentary that advance knowledge base these dis...

PURPOSE Women family physicians experience challenges in maintaining work-life balance while practicing in rural communities. We sought to better understand the personal and professional strategies that enable women in rural family medicine to balance work and personal demands and achieve long-term career satisfaction. METHODS Women family physicians practicing in rural communities in the Uni...

388 roviding quality emergency care in rural hospitals P low patient volumes can be cost prohibitive. Additionally, recruiting and retaining physicians in these rural areas is difficult. Mississippi, a mostly rural state, shares this nationwide problem: There simply are not enough Board Certified Emergency Medicine physicians to serve rural hospitals in the state. As a result, emergency departm...

a survey was made to study the rational given by women living in rural area of west tehran for using or not using family planning measures (1994). the purposes of this study were to investigate the reasons for using or not using family planning measures and it's relation to personal characteristics of the subjects. the samples were grouped in smaller groups: - those using effective family ...