Observations on a Rural Health Manpower Project.

Pinchoff, Diane M.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1977

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Observations on a Rural Health Manpower Project

Pinchoff, Diane M.; And Others

Journal of Medical Education, 52, 2, 117-22, Feb 77

The Rural Externship Program in an interdisciplinary approach provides health science students with an eight-week summer living-working experience in a rural environment, supervised by practitioner-preceptors. This paper describes the project and presents measures of the externs' changes in attitudes toward rural practice. (Author/LBH)

Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Attitude Change, Geographic Distribution, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Internship Programs, Medical Education, Physicians, Rural Areas, Student Attitudes

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