Background The numbers of GPs and training places in general practice are declining, and
retaining GPs in their practices is an increasing problem. Aim To identify evidence on …

Background The transition from university-based to clerkship-based education can be
challenging. Medical schools have introduced strategies to ease the transition, but there has …

Background Increasingly, medical students are trained at sites away from the tertiary
academic health centre. A growing body of literature identifies the benefits of decentralised …

Background Significant investment has been undertaken by many countries into 'Rural
Clinical Training Placement Schemes' for medical students in order to deal with shortages of …

Objectives There is a shortage of doctors working in rural areas all over the world, especially
in low-income and middle-income countries. The choice to practise medicine in a rural area …

Learning through work is a common feature of preparing health professionals for practice.
Current understandings of work-integrated learning or a 'work-based placement', focus on …

Objective Synthesise evidence about the impact of family medicine/general practice (FM)
clerkships on undergraduate medical students, teaching general/family practitioners (FPs) …

Context Although the uptake of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LICs) is increasing
worldwide, and there are documented benefits to participation, there is a lack of conceptual …

Hailed by supporters as the answer to many challenges facing medical schools and the
wider health care system, longitudinal integrated clerkships (LICs) offer a practical and …

Community teaching physicians (ie, community preceptors) have assumed an important role
in medical education. More than half of medical schools use community settings to train …