Canadian rural family medicine training programs: growth and variation in recruitment.

Observers from the Canadian Medical Association and Health Canada’s Council on Health Workforce, and rep- resentatives from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of

obtaining commitment from a sufficient number of rural family physicians to act as preceptors at a rural training site; identifying the resources required by rural physician

Dr Humber is a GP surgeon in solo practice in Lillooet, BC; Community Medical Director for Interior Health West; a member of the BC Ministry of Health’s Joint Standing Committee

OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM The Rural Physician Action Plan in Alberta developed an Enrichment Program to assist physicians practising in rural Alberta communities to upgrade their

OBJECTIVE To determine whether family medicine residents graduating from rural programs assess themselves as more experienced and competent in a range of procedural skills

This study examines whether rural physicians thought they had had suffi cient exposure to rural medicine during residency, and whether recently graduated rural physicians’

5 It is important for medical schools to take these characteristics into consideration, because students of rural origin with an interest in rural medi- cine are more likely

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