Medical students on long-term regional and rural placements: What is the financial cost to supervisors?

Rural and Remote Health

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hudson, J N ^a,b   Weston, K M ^a   Farmer, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community based medical education; Financial cost; Longitudinal integrated clerkships

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL EDUCATION; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; MANPOWER; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL; PRECEPTORSHIP; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84863537409     PISSN: 14456354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22605/rrh1951     Document Type: Article

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