Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine

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INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented challenge for rural family physicians. The lessons learned over the course of 2 years have potential to help guide responses to future ecosystem disruption. This qualitative study aims to explore the leadership experiences of rural Canadian family physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic as both local care providers and community health leaders and to identify potential supports and barriers to physician leadership. METHODS: Semi-structured, virtual, qualitative interviews were completed with participants from rural communities in Canada from December 2021 to February 2022 inclusive...

INTRODUCTION: Northern Ontario has a population of approximately 800,000 people distributed over 806,707 km2. Before 2018, the only fertility treatment centre in Northern Ontario was located in Thunder Bay; many patients travelled south for care. In 2018, the Northeastern Ontario Women's Health Network (NEOWHN) opened in Sudbury, providing fertility treatments to people living in Northeastern Ontario. The goal of this study was to determine if proximity to this new fertility centre increases one's chance of achieving pregnancy when undergoing fertility treatment...

INTRODUCTION: Practising medicine exposes physicians to emotionally difficult situations, which can be devastating, and for which they might be unprepared. Informal peer support has been recognised as helpful, although this phenomenon is understudied. Hence, it is important to develop a better understanding of the features of helpful informal peer support from the experiences of physicians who have successfully moved through such difficult events. This could lead to new and potentially more effective ways to support struggling physicians...

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Rural communities are geographically isolated from large urban areas, affecting access to definitive care, specialists and other health services that only service urban areas. Rural decision-makers are often faced with numerous challenges regarding the availability, capacity, sustainability and performance of health systems in rural and remote areas. We evaluated the current body of literature on educational initiatives being used in under-resourced areas to increase the knowledge or skills of healthcare workers...

Proposals to establish pan-Canadian licensure for physicians have broad support amongst medical groups to address physician shortages in underserved rural communities. The concept has also elicited concern from some stakeholders that its implementation could exacerbate rural physician workforce shortages by prompting an exodus of rural physicians to urban centres. An environmental scan of reports from key medical groups published within the past 10 years was conducted to determine factors influencing rural physician practice patterns...

INTRODUCTION: An estimated 20% of residents of Renfrew County, a rural and underserved community in Ontario, do not have a family physician or alternative primary care provider. Integrated virtual care (IVC) aims to address this crisis by enrolling individuals who are not currently attached to a primary care provider, to a named family physician who works predominantly remotely. The physician is embedded within an existing, local family health team. The aim of this study was to assess and describe the IVC model's capacity to enrol previously unattached patients in Renfrew County and provide adequate primary care...

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