One program, multiple training sites: does site of family medicine training influence professional practice location?

Introduction: Numerous strategies have been suggested to increase recruitment of family physicians to rural communities and smaller regional centers. One approach has been to implement distributed postgraduate education programs where trainees spend substantial time in such communities. The purpose of the current study was to compare the eventual practice location of family physicians who undertook their postgraduate training through a single university but who were based in either metropolitan or distributed, non-metropolitan communities.

Re-entry residency training: opportunities and obstacles.

Objective: To identify and quantify the reasons general practitioners and family physicians consider retraining and their reasons for not pursuing further training.

Design: Population-based mailed survey.

Setting: British Columbia.