Objective To develop a pan-Canadian rural education road map to advance the recruitment
and retention of family physicians in rural, remote, and isolated regions of Canada in order …

April saw a very successful 13th Annual Rural and Remote Medicine Conference in Quebec
City." Mastering Many Skills/La maitrise de plusieurs competences" brought 300 rural …

Regionalization has been put forward as the means by which provincial governments will be
able to cure many of the problems plaguing the health care system, yet very little research …

DISCUSSION The PPP was proposed following the publication of 3 major papers in BC: the
Investigation into Medical Imaging, Credentialing and Quality Assurance: Phase 1 Report,(3…

… Q&A with Dr Trina Larsen Soles: Doctors of BC President 2017–18 Dr Larsen Soles has
practised rural medicine in the small community of Golden for the past 30 years, and it continues …

About 18% of Canadians live in rural, remote or isolated com munities. 1 Factors such as
isola tion from urban centres, poor weather conditions impairing access to remote locations, …

Regionalization experiments have been initiated by governments without clearly outlined
goals and the tools of evaluation needed to monitor and measure these goals. Many …

There has been an increased focus on rural health issues in British Columbia. None of the
issues are new. For years the province has been concerned about recruitment and retention …

Tous les gouvernements provinciaux du Canada, sauf celui de l'Ontario, ont adopte la
regionalisation des services de sante. Dans certaines provinces, la regionalisation a englobe un …

Trauma and extreme illness are unpredictable. Too much of our health care planning involves
implementing resources and personnel to the bare minimum required. It is done because …