The delivery of undergraduate clinical education in underserved areas is increasing in various contexts across the world in response to local workforce needs. A collective understanding of the impact of these placements is lacking. Previous reviews have often taken a positivist approach by only looking at outcome measures. This review addresses the question: What are the strengths and weaknesses for medical students and supervisors of community placements in underserved areas?
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A series of global recommendations, about the current evidence to promote increased access to remote and rural health workers through improved retention
The purpose of this article is to review and synthesize key themes from the literature related to CME/CPD and rural physicians to facilitate continuing medical education/continuing professional development planning.
Studies demonstrate that the CME/CPD (continuing medical education/continuing professional development) needs of rural general practitioners (GPs) are unique. Little research has focused specifically on the effectiveness of CME/CPD programmes for rural practice. The aim of this paper was to review the literature on CME/CPD for GPs in rural areas, focussing on studies which examined impact on doctor performance or patient outcomes.
This scoping review presents a synopsis of the existing literature on decentralized training platform (DTP) strategies for medical education internationally, outlining existing models within it and its impact.
Using a structured five-step approach, a scoping review was conducted to map the existing evidence on the relationship between professional entry-level, pre-vocational medical education delivered in rural settings and rural workforce outcomes.
The objective of this review is to identify and examine different remuneration models of Community Health Workers (CHWs) that have been utilized in large-scale sustained programmes to gain insight into the effect that remuneration has on the motivation and focus of CHWs.
Global recommendations and guidelines on task shifting as a method of strengthening and expanding the health workforce to rapidly increase access to HIV and other health services.
There is a workforce crisis in primary care. Previous research has looked at the reasons underlying recruitment and retention problems, but little research has looked at what works to improve recruitment and retention. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate interventions and strategies used to recruit and retain primary care doctors internationally.
Self assessment tool to guide benchmarking of rural pathways and determine progress towards implementation of actions to train and support rural health workers – applying the Rural Pathways Checklist to action