PMID: 9437138Aug 1, 1996Paper

A comparison of medical student experiences in rural specialty and metropolitan teaching hospital practice

The Australian Journal of Rural Health
M Kamien

Abstract

One factor in solving the rural medical workforce shortage is to foster student interest by greater exposure to rural medicine. However, many medical school teachers are concerned that this may cause students to be disadvantaged by missing core lectures, tutorials and ward rounds in the setting of the high quality of teaching hospital medicine. This paper compares the rural specialty experience of 28 fifth-year volunteers with 28 'pairs' who remained in the city teaching hospitals. Rural students saw double the number of medical conditions, assisted in or performed six times as many procedures, and all but three students were sure that they had a better educational experience than their city counterparts. This is a strong academic argument for greater medical student exposure to rural specialty practice.

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May 10, 2002·The Australian Journal of Rural Health·J TaylorG Misan
Feb 27, 2003·The Australian Journal of Rural Health·Sarah Lee, Lynette Mackenzie
Nov 1, 1996·The Australian Journal of Rural Health·M Kamien
Dec 3, 2003·The Australian Journal of Rural Health·Graeme I JonesDavid Simmons
Jul 8, 2010·Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice·Joachim P SturmbergDi O'Halloran
May 18, 2016·The Clinical Teacher·Saad Al Suwayri
Dec 1, 2017·BMC Medical Education·Helen M WrightSharon F Evans
Apr 11, 2018·The Australian Journal of Rural Health·Janine E Wyatt, Alan Bruce Chater
Apr 27, 2019·BMC Medical Education·Fabian P HeldClaire Brunero
Jun 10, 2000·Quality in Health Care : QHC·J Kersnik
Jul 29, 2000·The Medical Journal of Australia·P S WorleyJ A Magarey

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