Bly Jared
University of Alberta, Rural Alberta North Family Medicine Residency Program, Grande Prairie.
Can Fam Physician. 2006 Mar;52(3):329-34.
Family medicine is a vital part of health care in Canada. The decline in numbers of new family physicians being trained bodes ill for a sustainable and efficacious health care system. We need to recruit young people more effectively into careers in primary care. Early outreach to high-school students is one approach that holds promise.
To provide high-school students with exposure to and appreciation for careers in medicine, particularly family medicine.
Family medicine residents in the University of Alberta's Rural Alberta North Program initiated an outreach project that was implemented in rural and regional high schools in northern Alberta. The program consisted of visits to high schools by residents who gave interactive presentations introducing medicine as a career. The regional hospital subsequently hosted a career day involving medical and paramedical professionals, such as physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and physical and occupational therapists.
Physicians' visits to high-school students could be an effective way to increase interest in careers in rural family medicine.
家庭医学是加拿大医疗保健的重要组成部分。新培训的家庭医生数量下降,这对可持续且有效的医疗保健系统来说是个不祥之兆。我们需要更有效地招募年轻人从事初级保健职业。尽早接触高中生是一种有前景的方法。
让高中生接触并了解医学职业,尤其是家庭医学。
阿尔伯塔大学北阿尔伯塔农村项目的家庭医学住院医师发起了一个外展项目,该项目在阿尔伯塔省北部的农村和地区高中实施。该项目包括住院医师到高中进行访问,他们进行互动式演讲,介绍医学作为一种职业。随后,地区医院举办了一个职业日,有医学和辅助医疗专业人员参与,如医生、药剂师、护士以及物理治疗师和职业治疗师。
医生对高中生的访问可能是提高农村家庭医学职业兴趣的有效方式。