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. 2008 Jan 29;178(3):322-5.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.070293.

Increasing the number of rural physicians

James Rourke  1
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Increasing the number of rural physicians

James Rourke. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1: Physicians and general population in rural areas of Canada, the United States and Australia. *Includes communities up to 10 000 people. †Includes all non-metropolitan areas. ‡Includes outer regional, remote and very remote areas.
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Figure 2: Physicians practising in urban and rural areas of Canada, the United States and Australia. Data for Canada: Dr. Ray Pong and Dr. Roger Pitblado, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario: personnel communication, 2007.
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Figure 3: Interplay of positive (solid arrows) and negative (dashed arrows) factors that affect the number of medical graduates interested in rural practice.
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