Background and objective Physician maldistribution is a global problem that hinders
patients' abilities to access healthcare services. Medical education presents an opportunity …

Objectives There is a shortage of doctors working in rural areas all over the world, especially
in low-income and middle-income countries. The choice to practise medicine in a rural area …

Introduction Rural pipeline approach has recently gain prominent recognition in improving
the availability of health workers in hard-to-reach areas such as rural and poor regions …

Background Professional isolation is viewed as a sense of isolation from ones professional
peers and this has contributed to compromised quality of health service delivery as well as …

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 …

Background A large number of programs have been implemented in many countries to
increase the healthcare workforce recruitment in rural and remote areas. Rural early …

Background With the establishment of a new medical college in Botswana to train generalist-
doctors and specialists, we set out to explore the career preferences of medical students …

Abstract Purpose Community-Based Education and Service (COBES) and rural outreach
programmes are increasingly being used in the delivery of undergraduate medical …

Objective: To find out the specialty choices being taken by Final year Medical students and
graduate Doctors. Method: This is a cross sectional survey study which was conducted over …

Purpose: National policies on the number and distribution of post graduate seats in medical
colleges are based on estimated projections of the quantum need of medical work force in …