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Admission of rural origin students to medical school - recommended strategies.

This report presents education, funding and admissions process recommended strategies to increase the number of rural origin students in Canadian medical schools.

Joint Position Paper on Rural Maternity Care

This position paper provides new evidence and progressive recommendations focused on providing quality maternity care to women across Canada, no matter if they live in urban, rural or remote communities.

Joint position paper on training for rural family practitioners in advanced maternity skills and Cesarean section.

For the approximately one third of Canadian women who spend their pregnancies in rural Canada, access can be a serious challenge. Most rural communities are too small and remote to sustain specialist obstetric and anesthetic services for operative birth. There is a need to sustain and restore the availability of advanced maternity care in rural Canada.

Policy on quality and effectiveness of rural health care.

Policy on rural practice and rural health 2001.

This Policy on Rural Practice and Rural Health contains strategies to assist governments and professional bodies to ensure that real progress is made toward the goal of improving the health of rural people. These strategies were developed over the six year period following the establishment of the WONCA Working Pa

Postgraduate education for rural family practice: Vision and recommendations for the new millennium.

The Working Group on Postgraduate Education for Rural Family Practice of the College of Family Physicians of Canada was established in 1998 to review the current state of postgraduate education for rural practice in Canada and to outline an appropriate curriculum to prepare new family physicians for the challenges of rural practice.

Rural practice.

This guide to rural practice may include links to important websites, articles, reports and other resources. For more detailed information, please ask us.