Purpose To examine the literature documenting successes in recruiting and retaining rural
primary care physicians. Method The authors conducted a narrative review of literature on …

Background Increasingly, medical students are trained at sites away from the tertiary
academic health centre. A growing body of literature identifies the benefits of decentralised …

Background The need for clinical placements outside traditional teaching hospitals for
medical students is growing, both due to a decrease in hospital beds and the expansion of …

Introduction: Design thinking is a creative problem-solving framework that can be used to
better understand challenges and generate solutions in health professions education, such …

The goal of global equity in health care requires that the training of health-care professionals
be better tuned to meet the needs of the communities they serve. In fact medical education is …

The Rural Clinical School of Western Australia (RCSWA) provides 25% of Western
Australia's medical students in their first full clinical year with a longitudinal integrated …

Medical education in Australia is increasingly delivered through longitudinal placements in
general practice and other community settings. Early meaningful exposure to patients has …

Increasing numbers of health professions students are being trained in healthcare facilities
that are geographically removed from central academic hospitals. Consequently, studies …

Background Mal-distribution of health care workers is a global health challenge that
exacerbates health disparities, especially in resource-limited settings. Interventions to …

An understanding of the contextual, professional, and personal factors that affect choice of
practice location for physicians is needed to support successful strategies in addressing …