Reflecting on 12 years of training medical students in rural longitudinal integrated clerkships

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

 
 
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Title Reflecting on 12 years of training medical students in rural longitudinal integrated clerkships
 
Creator Coetzee, Francois Couper, Ian
 
Subject primary health care; education; rural health longitudinal integrated clerkships; medical training; primary health care environments; final year students; rural health care
Description Longitudinal integrated clerkships (LICs) are effective in promoting careers in rural primary health care environments. This model of training medical professionals involves longer clinical placements of medical students and a different approach to learning which better prepares them for primary health care practice. Stellenbosch University created a LIC in 2011 for this purpose and has trained almost 100 doctors in their yearlong LIC since then. The past 12 years have brought about a lot of learning as this model of training was implemented, developed, and refined to suit the needs of students and the clinical environments.Contribution: Countries across the globe face challenges in recruiting and retaining doctors in rural primary health care environments. Longitudinal integrated clerkships have several educational benefits in addition to increase recruitment and retention of rural doctors, and 12 years of experience have led to a greater understanding regarding implementation and outcomes of an LIC in the South African context.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor None
Date 2024-04-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Reflection
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/phcfm.v16i1.4390
 
Source African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 16, No 1 (2024); 4 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage South Africa; Western Cape; Northern Cape 2011-2022 Not applicable
Rights Copyright (c) 2024 Francois Coetzee, Ian Couper https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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