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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Ok, but that doesn't solve anything. You can't have entry level med students working in rural places, they're not qualified yet and could only work clerkships under actual docs. You also can't lock students into 10-year commitments when they haven't even being accepted into residency programs let alone wrote the CARMS exam.
There are some that might like rural communities (and yes that happens), but the system has to nurture them to stay in place, otherwise you get what is happening now - early retirements and getting the hell out of dodge.
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Yes you need to build out the capability to have rural residencies and training programs to support the rural spots in universities. This needs to be a concerted effort over years to ensure we are educating people who want to provide medical services in rural areas.
The goal is to attract qualified applicants who want to work in rural areas and then support them to develop into qualified doctors for rural areas.