Going the distance: early results of a distributed medical education initiative for Royal College residencies in Canada

Prof Douglas Myhre

qualifications: FCFP

contribution: original concept, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, designed the project

position: Associate dean, Distributed Learning and Rural Initiatives

Canada

Dr. Myhre is Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine (CSM), Calgary, Canada. He has successfully designed and implemented rural based medical education programs, both undergrad and postgrad since 2000: the CSM Rural Family Medicine residency program, the University of Calgary Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship, the Distributed Royal College postgraduate initiative and has designed a distributed Physician Assistant curriculum. His reserach is grounded in social accountability through community engagement. His passion is fueled by over 30 years of generalist clinical practice.

Stacey Hohman

qualifications: BA(Hons)

contribution: literature review

position: Research assistant