Engelsk titel: Medical education in rural areas - a radical concept from Canada
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Författare:
Agreus, Lars
;
Strasser, Roger
Email: lars.agreus@ki.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 12
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 14017447
Sammanfattning
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 Ontario. NOSM recruits students from Northern Ontario or similar backgrounds and provides Distributed Community Engaged Learning in over 70 clinical and community settings located in the region, a vast underserved rural part of Canada. 61% of NOSM graduates have chosen a family practice (predominantly rural) career. The socio-economic impact of NOSM includes new economic activity, more than double the School’s budget; enhanced retention and recruitment for the universities and hospitals/health services; and a sense of empowerment among community participants attributable in large part to NOSM. There are signs that NOSM is successful in graduating health professionals who have the skills and the desire to practice in rural/remote communities and that NOSM is having a largely positive socio-economic impact on Northern Ontario.