Background Part of the mandate for social accountability of medical schools is to address
physician needs at the local, regional and national levels. We determined the work locations …

Background: Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) established its medical school in
1967 to meet the growing demand for physicians and alleviate the reliance on other …

Results: In their early career, 127/1113 (11.4%) MUN medical graduates were working in
rural Canada, and 57 (5.1%) were working in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. Having a …

Introduction The study predicted practice location of doctors trained at a socially accountable
medical school with education programs in over 90 communities. Methods A cross-sectional …

Background The “rural pipeline” suggests that students educated in rural, or other
underserviced areas, are more likely to establish practices in such locations. It is upon this …

Abstract We linked the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) postgraduate database
with Scott's Medical Database to determine 2004 work locations of physicians who started …

Introduction: Rural recruitment and retention of physicians is a global issue. The Faculty of
Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, was established as a rural …

Canadian medical schools have increased enrolment and recruited more rural students in
an effort to address general and rural physician shortages. The success of this approach …

Background Can prior places of residence listed on a medical school application predict
where a physician will practice in midcareer? Method Geographic data were analyzed for a …

Introduction: The objective of this study was to identify commonalities between one
regionally based medical school in Australia and one in Canada regarding the association …