Find out How to Improve Access to Health Care Services Through Decentralized Medical Training!
Nowadays, informed citizens demand local access to quality medical services. Governments seeking to achieve a better distribution of physicians face on-going issues. As a result, voluntary solutions that focus on community-based physician training provided by physicians in the community, are gaining more and more traction.
Want to Resolve the Medical Service
Access Issue?
Lack of access to medical services is a common issue; it even affects developed countries with no medical workforce shortage.
A better distribution of medical staff for better health care services in outlying areas is a complex challenge for government authorities and faculties of medicine alike.
- An increase in the number of medical graduates will do nothing to solve the problem of access to regional medical services if medical staff are not adequately distributed.
- Incentives or coercive measures have some serious limitations: they do not result in an adequate distribution of physicians.
That is why authorities are increasingly considering voluntary solutions that focus on training physicians in the communities where they are needed.
An Effective Solution to What the Public Wants: Medical Training Implemented Where It Is Needed
Community-based physician training provided by physicians in the community is effective, as evidenced by the regional retention rates for new physicians that range from 50 to 70%.
Physicians in training benefit from extensive exposure to practising medicine in the regions, which reassures them and gives them a taste of a challenging career outside major urban centres.
Tangible outcomes can be obtained within 36 months when a family medicine training program is rolled out along with the establishment of a decentralized campus.
Benefits of Decentralized Medical Training
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Voluntary approach
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Suited to a local community’s needs and realities
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Ensures high training quality standards
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Medical students are extensively exposed to the regional practice of medicine
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Timely availability of the first cohort of trained physicians
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Cost control
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Lasting structural effects on health services and communities
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Regional economic and political benefits
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Community engagement and pride
Leaders, You Have the Power to Improve Health Care Quality During Your Term!
Are you a political leader? A medical leader? In charge of medical training? You have the power to influence the course of events and, most importantly, you have the duty to act now! Access to quality health care is critical for your community’s well-being. Do not let a lack of local experience and expertise complicate matters and limit your success.
We know that your time is precious. We can help you launch and implement a new medical education organization during your term that will have a lasting effect on health care access and quality.
Dr. Pierre Gagné has more than ten years of experience as a regional medical training leader with the Faculty of Medicine of a francophone university in North America that is renowned for successfully establishing a regional medical campus.
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