Placements in the community for UG education influence career choice

Working Party News April 2018

March, 2018

Val Wass chair of the WONCA Working Party on Education announces that this month's free access article from Education for Primary care is about placements in the community for undergraduate education influencing career choice.

Education for Primary Care : The March issue is now on line here

We offer free access for a month to an important literature review which gives you the crucial evidence needed to argue for moving undergraduate education into the community to positively promote family medicine as a career. It includes important references for all members and organisations.

Reversing the secondary care dominance of medical education is undoubtedly a key to recruitment of the primary care workforce we need for Universal Health Care .

Do primary care placements influence career choice: What is the evidence?
Maslah Amin,Shiv Chande,Sophie Park, Joe Rosenthal & Melvyn Jones

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