Toward a global understanding of students who participate in rural primary care longitudinal integrated clerkships: considering personality across 2 continents.

CONCLUSIONS: Despite coming from different educational and societal backgrounds, similar personality patterns are evident in US and Australian students who pursue rural medical education. Data provide support for a pattern of traits associated with a rural background and its predictive influence on interest in rural practice. Considering the international expansion of rural longitudinal integrated clerkships, understanding student attributes may assist in identifying strategies to enhance the rural workforce that are relevant across cultures and continents. PMID: 24689541 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Rural Remote Health - Category: Rural Health Authors: Tags: J Rural Health Source Type: research