RhPAP-Sponsored Rural Research and Quality Improvement Initiatives
RhPAP has provided funding and support for over 30 published studies on rural health. For information on RhPAP funding for rural research and quality improvement (QI) initiatives, click here or email research@rhpap.ca.
2023:
• Evaluation of the Quality of Colonoscopies Performed by Alberta North Zone Surgeons, Family Physicians and Internists: A Quality Improvement Initiative
• Pattern of Visual-Motor Integration, Visual Perception, and Find Motor Coordination Abilities in Children Being Assessed for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
2022:
• RhPAP health-care provider surveys: All HCP Survey Summary, Allied Health HCP Survey Summary, Nursing HCP Survey Summary, Physician HCP Survey Summary, HCP Survey Summary Appendix
2018:
• Alberta Family Physician Electronic Endoscopy Study
• Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Preceptorship
• Scope of Practice of Family Medicine Graduates who Completed a Rural Versus Urban Program
2017:
• Well-being of Family Medicine Graduates
• Implications of Not Matching to a First-choice Discipline: a Family Medicine Perspective
2013:
• Perceived Preparedness for Rural Practice: Does Rural Background Matter?
• The Alberta Primary Care Endoscopy (APC-Endo) Study
2012:
• Rural Physicians’ Skills Enrichment Program: A Cohort Control Study of Retention in Alberta
2010:
• Locum Practice by Recent Family Medicine Graduates
• Physician Retention in Rural Alberta: Key Community Factors
2009:
• Outcomes of 1949 Endoscopic Procedures Performed by a Canadian Rural Family Physician
2007:
• Why Would I Choose a Career in Family Medicine?
2006:
• What is Medicine? Recruiting High-school Students into Family Medicine
• The Pandemic from Within: Two Surveys of Physician Burnout in Canada
• Additional Skills Training for Rural Physicians. Alberta’s Rural Physician Action Plan
• Acute Myocardial Infarction: Quality of Care in Rural Alberta
• General Emergency Medicine Skills for Rural Doctors
2005:
• Where Canadian Family Physicians Learn Procedural Skills
• Preparedness for Rural Community Leadership and its Impact on Practice Location of Family Medicine Graduates
2003:
• Introducing Personal Digital Assistants to Family Physician Teachers
2002:
• Does a Rural Educational Experience Influence Students’ Likelihood of Rural Practice? Impact of Student Background and Gender
• Rural Surgical Programs in Western Canada
• A Study of Alberta Physician Burnout
2001:
• Location of Family Medicine Graduates’ Practices: What Factors Influence Albertan’s Choices?
• Rural-Urban and Gender Differences in Procedures Performed by Family Practice Residency Graduates
1997:
• Outcome of Thrombolysis in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction in Rural Alberta