Rourke J T, Strasser R
Department of Family Medicine, University of Western Ontario.
Acad Med. 1996 May;71(5):464-9. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199605000-00015.
Better education, recruitment, and retention of rural doctors are priorities in Canada and Australia. All medical schools in both countries offer some training in rural areas. In Canada, postgraduate training is provided by university medical schools, which have produced a variety of rural educational initiatives in response to regional needs and resources. In Australia, postgraduate training is provided by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and specialty colleges, and the RACGP's Faculty of Rural Medicine has established a national training program for rural medicine. In both countries, a wide variety of continuing medical education (CME) courses are being developed for rural doctors, and funding resources and local programs are offered to make it easier for rural doctors to attend CME courses. Both countries continue to struggle to ensure high-quality, accessible medical care for rural populations. Although the two countries differ both in their health and in medical education systems, Canada and Australia are similar geographically and in their population distributions, and can benefit from and build on each other's experiences and advances.
更好地培养、招募和留住乡村医生是加拿大和澳大利亚的优先事项。两国所有医学院校都提供一些农村地区的培训。在加拿大，研究生培训由大学医学院提供，这些医学院针对地区需求和资源开展了各种农村教育举措。在澳大利亚，研究生培训由澳大利亚皇家全科医生学院（RACGP）和专科院校提供，RACGP的农村医学系已经建立了一个农村医学国家培训项目。在两国，都在为乡村医生开发各种各样的继续医学教育（CME）课程，并提供资金资源和地方项目，以便乡村医生更容易参加CME课程。两国都在继续努力确保为农村人口提供高质量、可及的医疗服务。尽管两国在卫生和医学教育系统方面存在差异，但加拿大和澳大利亚在地理和人口分布上相似，可以从彼此的经验和进步中受益并加以借鉴。
