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 …

Abstract Both Canada and Australia are facing severe shortages of primary health workers,
and these shortages are exacerbated in rural and remote communities. This literature review …

Context Longitudinal integrated clerkships (LIC s) represent a model of the structural
redesign of clinical education that is growing in the USA, Canada, Australia and South …

Background: Traditionally, clinical learning for medical students consists of short-term and
opportunistic encounters with primarily acute-care patients, supervised by an array of …

Background: The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) has a social accountability
mandate to contribute to improving the health of the people and communities of Northern …

This literature review describes the impact of health professional schools with a social
accountability mandate by identifying characteristics of medical education found to impact …

Educational practice and educational research are not aligned with each other. Current
educational practice heavily relies on information transmission or content delivery to …

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 …

Context The delivery of undergraduate clinical education in underserved areas is increasing
in various contexts across the world in response to local workforce needs. A collective …

There is increased interest in longitudinal integrated clerkships (LICs) due to mounting
evidence of positive outcomes for students, patients and supervising clinicians. Emphasizing …