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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I’d be curious to see some sort of recruitment or education stream more geared toward rural communities. Someone from Calgary who goes to med school in Toronto is unlikely to want to practice in Pincher Creek or whatever, but if you can get more healthcare workers from these communities and give them a path that incentivizes their return to these communities, that could be beneficial.
I’m not sure to what extent they already do this.
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Both UAlberta's Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and UCalgary's Cumming School of Medicine have programs geared towards educating rural doctors.
There was a great interview a couple of months ago, and I do not recall who he was but was an educator involved at one of the two medical schools IIRC. He said they would also be working to increase the number of instructors who come from a rural practice/background in order to promote the practice to students. I also want to say (but am not sure) that they may change the admission process to give more weight to students who choose to practice in rural areas when they make admission offers.
https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/ruralmedicine
https://www.ualberta.ca/medicine/pro...nal/index.html