Creating a sustainable rural general surgery workforce: what enables fellows to return as rural general surgeons?

CONCLUSION: Ensuring a sustainable general surgical workforce in a rural community requires employee and surgical leadership to ensure a collaborative and progressive culture, which offers work diversity, supports the family lifestyle and petitions for selecting those who embody the rural general surgeon identity. Post-fellowship positions can enable young general surgeons to have exposure to the realities of a rural lifestyle, which is likely to have a positive effect on recruitment. Due to the return investment of the fellowship program, we propose that the federal government should look at funding post-fellowship positions to improve rural recruitment.PMID:37622449 | DOI:10.22605/RRH7745
Source: Rural and Remote Health - Category: Rural Health Authors: Source Type: research