The shortage of primary care physicians1 in the United States (US), especially in rural areas,
is a decades old problem, and one that is worsening (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Similar shortages in the …

Approaches to rural medical education can be characterised in many ways. One significant
dichotomy is the tension between all students receiving some rural experience versus …

Commentary years in the number of students enrolled in medical school, rising from 1563 in
1997/98 to 2458 in 2006/07. However, only about 11% of these students are from rural …

Although rural‐based graduate medical education is critically important in the training of
competent rural family physicians, the number of physicians selecting these programs is …

Introduction: This article documents a number of rural medical education initiatives in
Australia, Canada and the United States. A typology is created reflecting the centrality the …

Essay physicians do and will need to come from urban backgrounds. Longer rural learning
experiences in medical school and postgraduate family medicine training are associated …

Rural medical education: how different is it? Page 1 Rural medical education: how different is
it? We are in the midst of an international expansion of medical education initiatives intended …

Medical students frequently derive substantial educational value from wellsupervised rural
clinical rotations (1). While the optimum duration of the rural exposure during undergraduate …

This paper describes the approach taken at the University of Queensland to broaden the
scope of curriculum design to involve rural general practitioners, medical students and rural …

In response to the shortage of rural doctors, some medical schools have expanded their
medical training facilities to include new rural sites. 26 Ontario is planning to admit a first …