Background Maintaining a health professional workforce in rural and remote areas poses a
significant challenge internationally. A range of recruitment and retention strategies have …

Background China is rapidly expanding its general practitioner (GP) workforce as part of
recent healthcare reform, with an extra 400,000 GPs by 2030. This scoping review identifies …

Rural communities across Australia face an ongoing shortage of doctors, which reduces
access to care and leads to poorer health outcomes for people living in rural areas …

Introduction Fostering trainee psychological safety is increasingly being recognised as
necessary for effective feedback conversations. Emerging literature has explored …

Background Burnout among physicians is a consequence of chronic occupational stresses
and emotionally intense work demands. However, much of the evidence exploring burnout …

Objective Communication is a key competency for medical education and comprehensive
patient care. In rural environments, communication between rural family physicians and …

Rural communities across the circumpolar region and worldwide perennially suffer from
physician shortages despite decades of attempting targeted strategies for recruitment …

Introduction: Clinical courage occurs when rural doctors push themselves to the limits of
their scope of practice to provide the medical care needed by patients in their community …

Generalist practitioners often find interacting with patients deeply satisfying and joyful; they
also experience encounters that are challenging and complex. In both cases, they must be …

Primary care settings often function as the front lines for behavioral health services in rural
areas. The lack of formal behavioral health care in rural areas is also well documented …