Place-based rural health professional pre-registration education programs: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With an increasing focus on social accountability in program design in response to a shortage of rural healthcare professionals, emerging approaches in pre-registration health professional education (HPE) offer 'place-based' solutions. This review assesses the adoption of these approaches by the international HPE community and describes how programs are designed to recruit and train students 'in place'.

Methods

Utilizing a global scoping review, a search strategy of relevant HPE databases was developed based on the review's eligibility criteria and key search terms. Titles and abstracts of all articles were screened against the review's inclusion criteria, followed by full text review of articles retained. Reporting followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Sys

SUBMITTER: Fuller L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12391070 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature