Medical school service regions in Canada: exploring graduate retention rates across the medical education training continuum and into professional practice.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To create medical school service regions and examine national in-region graduate retention patterns across the medical education continuum and into professional practice as one approach to advancing social accountability in medical education.

Methods

Medical school service regions were created in Canada using publicly available data and mapped using Geographic Information System (GIS) software. Population size and density for each service region were calculated using census data. Retrospective data of medical graduates who completed their medical degrees between 2001-2015 (n = 19,971) were obtained from a centralized data repository and used to analyze in-region retention rates by medical specialty across the training continuum and five years into professional

SUBMITTER: Barber C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11536692 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature