Designing medical internships to improve recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas
Background: The medical internship as a way of exposing young doctors to training in a rural context is regarded as a useful tool to recruit and retain doctors in rural areas. Norwegian health authorities tested an arrangement of early sign-up for medical internships in the Finnmark County in Norway...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:6243f14df8e64399add12aa436618eef 2023-05-15T15:07:55+02:00 Designing medical internships to improve recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas Margrete Gaski Birgit Abelsen 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2017.1314415 https://doaj.org/article/6243f14df8e64399add12aa436618eef EN eng Taylor & Francis Group http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2017.1314415 https://doaj.org/toc/2242-3982 2242-3982 doi:10.1080/22423982.2017.1314415 https://doaj.org/article/6243f14df8e64399add12aa436618eef International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol 76, Iss 1 (2017) Recruitment remote areas retention rural area workforce medical internship Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 2017 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2017.1314415 2022-12-31T13:57:10Z Background: The medical internship as a way of exposing young doctors to training in a rural context is regarded as a useful tool to recruit and retain doctors in rural areas. Norwegian health authorities tested an arrangement of early sign-up for medical internships in the Finnmark County in Norway. Objective: To report on the effects of the early sign-up for medical internship. Design: This study compares the choice of workplace after internship among physicians who signed up early with those candidates assigned to the raffle model of internship in the study area, and in a comparison area experiencing similar recruitment and retention problems. Results: The proportion of interns who signed up early that still worked as physicians in the study area by April 2014 (29%) was twice as high as among the regular interns (15%) and interns in the comparison area (14%). Among the 59 interns who signed up early still working in the study area in April 2014, 33% had grown up in this area. However, the greatest benefits were for the most densely populated municipalities in the study area. Conclusions: The early sign-up model had a net contribution of proving additional physicians in the study area. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Circumpolar Health Finnmark International Journal of Circumpolar Health Finnmark Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Norway International Journal of Circumpolar Health 76 1 1314415 |
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Background: The medical internship as a way of exposing young doctors to training in a rural context is regarded as a useful tool to recruit and retain doctors in rural areas. Norwegian health authorities tested an arrangement of early sign-up for medical internships in the Finnmark County in Norway. Objective: To report on the effects of the early sign-up for medical internship. Design: This study compares the choice of workplace after internship among physicians who signed up early with those candidates assigned to the raffle model of internship in the study area, and in a comparison area experiencing similar recruitment and retention problems. Results: The proportion of interns who signed up early that still worked as physicians in the study area by April 2014 (29%) was twice as high as among the regular interns (15%) and interns in the comparison area (14%). Among the 59 interns who signed up early still working in the study area in April 2014, 33% had grown up in this area. However, the greatest benefits were for the most densely populated municipalities in the study area. Conclusions: The early sign-up model had a net contribution of proving additional physicians in the study area. |
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Designing medical internships to improve recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas |
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Designing medical internships to improve recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas |
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Designing medical internships to improve recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas |
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