Designing medical internship to improve recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas
Source at https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2017.1314415 . 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-u...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/12288 2023-05-15T15:55:24+02:00 Designing medical internship to improve recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas Gaski, Margrete Abelsen, Birgit 2017-04-18 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/12288 https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2017.1314415 eng eng Taylor & Francis Open International Journal of Circumpolar Health Gaski, M. & Abelsen, B. (2017). Designing medical internship to improve recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 76(1), 1-7. FRIDAID 1512961 doi:10.1080/22423982.2017.1314415 1239-9736 2242-3982 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/12288 openAccess Recruitment remote areas retention rural area workforce medical internship VDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin sosialmedisin: 801 VDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine Social medicine: 801 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2017 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2017.1314415 2021-06-25T17:55:37Z Source at https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2017.1314415 . 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 Circumpolar Health Finnmark International Journal of Circumpolar Health Finnmark University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Norway International Journal of Circumpolar Health 76 1 1314415 |
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Source at https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2017.1314415 . 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 internship to improve recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas |
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