Rural Medical Education in New Zealand

Despite a large number of yearly medical graduates, rural New Zealand is faced with a scarcity of practicing physicians. Opportunities to learn and practice in rural settings start at the undergraduate level and extend to practicing physicians. There are a number of different programs available to f...

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Autores principales: Mayer, Heidi, Renouf, Tia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2016
Materias:
Medical Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5106204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27882273
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.826
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description Despite a large number of yearly medical graduates, rural New Zealand is faced with a scarcity of practicing physicians. Opportunities to learn and practice in rural settings start at the undergraduate level and extend to practicing physicians. There are a number of different programs available to facilitate rural medical education for all students and physicians. These programs will be discussed in this article.
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spelling pubmed-51062042016-11-23 Rural Medical Education in New Zealand Mayer, Heidi Renouf, Tia Cureus Medical Education Despite a large number of yearly medical graduates, rural New Zealand is faced with a scarcity of practicing physicians. Opportunities to learn and practice in rural settings start at the undergraduate level and extend to practicing physicians. There are a number of different programs available to facilitate rural medical education for all students and physicians. These programs will be discussed in this article. Cureus 2016-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5106204/ /pubmed/27882273 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.826 Text en Copyright © 2016, Mayer et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5106204/
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