Recruitment and retention of physicians in rural Alberta: the spousal perspective

Lana Myroniuk

qualifications: MD

contribution: original concept, literature review, wrote the first draft

position: Student researcher

Paul Adamiak

qualifications: MSc (Microbiology)

contribution: designed the project, devised survey tool, wrote the first draft

position: Student researcher

Canada

I am interested in the intersection of public health/medical education and computer science.

Sameer Bajaj

qualifications: MPH

contribution: literature review, collected data, supervised data collection, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts

position: Research Associate

Canada

-Systematic Reviews of literature regarding rural retention of physicians. -Adding literature by submitting manuscripts to peer reviewed journals. -Statistical Analysis on data regarding practice locations of physicians. -Development of KP I's for various funding agencies. -Developing surveys, validating and implementing them for data collection -Designing novel research hypothesis and their testing.

Prof Douglas Myhre

qualifications: MD, CCFP

contribution: supervised data collection, contributed to drafts, Funded the study

position: Associate Dean

Canada

Dr. Myhre is Professor Emeritus, 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 postgraduate: 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 research is grounded in social accountability. His passion is fueled by over 30 years of generalist clinical practice. He continues to practice in rural locums.