Don’t rule out becoming a physician just because you started your undergraduate degree in a subject like agriculture, nursing, or physiotherapy. That’s...
Read MoreHeld on July 19, 2019 at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, the Rural Health Professions Action Plan-sponsored event saw several students sign up for rural mentorship opportunities. These opportunities take place during weekend ER call shifts at the hospital in rural communities during the first and second years of medical school.
Education plays an important role in recruiting health-care providers to rural areas. Cultivating students’ interest in rural health care and preparing them for rural life and practice can have a significant impact on decisions to go, and stay, rural; in fact, in one study, it was determined that feeling prepared for small-town living was a greater indicator for physician retention than feeling prepared for rural practice.2
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