The Healthcare Travelling Roadshow: a qualitative study of a rural community engagement initiative in Canada

Dr Sean Maurice

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision

position: MEDD Site Director Years 1 & 2

Dr. Sean Maurice is Assistant Dean of the Northern Medical Program (a rurally focused satellite campus of UBC Medicine), and Associate Professor in the Division of Medical Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is a 3M National Teaching Fellow (2022 recipient). He is the provincial lead for the Healthcare Travelling Roadshow: an initiative that has been bringing multidisciplinary groups of healthcare students to rural communities to present to youth on healthcare careers, since 2010 (https://www2.unbc.ca/healthcare-travelling-roadshow). His research interests include: rural distributed health professions education; and university-high school outreach and community engagement to build the rural health workforce. He gratefully acknowledges that the land on which he lives, works and plays is the ancestral and unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh

Mr Kristjan Mytting

qualifications: BHSc

contribution: Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision

position: Medical Student

Dr John Gentles

qualifications: MD

contribution: Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision

position: Surgery Resident

Ms Robin Roots

qualifications: BHSc PT, MSc

contribution: Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision

position: Senior Instructor

Canada

Physiotherapist; interests include: interprofessional practice in rural communities; primary health care; education of health professionals; rehabilitation service delivery in remote regions.

Dr Alina Constantin

qualifications: MD, PhD

contribution: Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision

position: Senior Lab Instructor

Ms Sonya Kruger

qualifications: BBA

contribution: Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision

position: Communications Officer

Ms Shelley Sim

contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision

position: Councillor District of Clearwater

Mr Warren Brock

qualifications: BA

contribution: Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision

position: Communications Manager

Dr Olusegun Oyedele

qualifications: MBChB, PhD

contribution: Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision

position: Site Director

Dr John Soles

qualifications: MD

contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision

position: Physician and Chief of Staff

Prof David Snadden

qualifications: MBChB, MD

contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision

position: Rural Doctor’s UBC Chair in Rural Health

Canada

Professor, Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia Northern Medical Program