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18513178

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-6-2
pubmed:abstractText
The critical shortage of the rural medical workforce in Australia continues. There is pressure on medical schools to produce not only more doctors, but to supply them in geographical areas of need. The latest policy to tackle these problems will increase medical student numbers while the supply of clinical teachers and patients for teaching remains static. This challenges the traditional apprenticeship model for learning medicine. Coupled with this is the requirement of medical schools to provide compulsory rural clinical placements for all students. The success of rural clinical schools and University Departments of Rural Health (UDRH) is increasingly apparent, but they must find new strategies to maintain a quality clinical experience and exposure to rural lifestyle for all medical students. The dilemma is providing this quality rural experience to all medical students in the immediate future. We suggest approaches to meet this challenge at a policy, organisational, student and teaching level.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0025-729X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
2
pubmed:volume
188
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
669-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-3-31
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Coping with increasing numbers of medical students in rural clinical schools: options and opportunities.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia. d.eley@uq.edu.au
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review