Medical Education 2012: 46: 1028–1041 Context Longitudinal integrated clerkships (LICs)
have been widely implemented in both rural and urban contexts, as is now evident in the …

Australian Government initiatives to address medical workforce shortages in rural Australia
include increasing the intake of students of rural background and increasing exposure to …

Background: Community-based medical education (CBME) is the delivery of medical
education in a specific social context. Learners become a part of social and medical …

Flinders University in Australia has had a rural longitudinal integrated clerkship for selected
medical students, the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum, since 1997. The Northern …

Increasingly medical students undertake clinical training in distributed learning
environments. The driving factor for this is predominantly to address medical workforce …

A longitudinal clerkship was designed at Harvard Medical School (HMS) in 2004–2005 to
emphasize continuity, empathy, learner-centeredness, and patient-centered care. In 2005 …

Background Resilience is required to succeed academically, overcome challenges during
clinical training and cope positively with stress in future professional life. With medical …

Background Medical students at the University of Wollongong experience continuity of
patient care and clinical supervision during an innovative year-long integrated (community …

Introduction: Access to medical services for rural communities is poorer than for metropolitan
communities in many parts of the world. One of the strategies to improve rural medical …

Introduction: The Australian Government has provided funding for Rural Clinical Schools
(RCS) to provide substantial rural clinical experience to medical students. The strategy aims …