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Top Rural Medical School Programs in Canada in 2010

The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada is pleased to award Memorial University Of Newfoundland family practice program top honours for doing the most in helping train rural doctors. The Keith Award was presented at the annual Rural and Remote conference in Toronto ON in April 2010.

The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada is pleased to award Queen's University family practice program top honours for doing the most in helping train rural doctors. The Keith Award was presented at the annual Rural and Remote conference in Halifax NS in April 2009.

Queen's University

Top Rural Medical School Programs in Canada in 2008

Dalhousie University

The Keith award was not presented to any university in 2007

Top Rural Medical School Programs in Canada in 2006

University or British Columbia

Top Rural Medical School Programs in Canada in 2005
The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada is pleased to award three family practice programs top honours for doing the most in helping train doctors for the 31%¹ of Canadians who live in predominantly rural regions.  Here are the winners for the year 2005:

1. McMaster University
2. University of Ottawa
3. University of Manitoba

Methodology

For this year's award we did use the database that the SRPC gets on physicians and looked at the alma mater of all rural docs in 1998 and again in 2004. While overall rural doctor numbers are down, the winning undergraduate programs have "held the line" on numbers of their grads that were going into rural communities.

Reference
1. In 1996, 31.4 percent of Canada s population lived in predominantly rural regions.
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/010116/b010116a.htm

Top 4 Rural Family Practice Programs in Canada in 2004
The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada is pleased to award four family practice programs top honours for doing the most in helping train doctors for the 31%¹ of Canadians who live in predominantly rural regions.  Here are the winners for the year 2004:

1. Université Laval
2. Memorial University of Newfoundland
3. Université de Montréal
4. Université de Sherbrooke

Methodology

For this year's award the total number of residents graduating 1989 to 1999 year period that went rural (for this study practice address in a town under 10,000 pop at 1996 census) 2 years post graduation were identified.

Family medicine residents were identified through the Canadian Post MD Educational Registry.  Practice location was taken from the Canadian Medical Association database two years after graduation.  34% of Université Laval family physicians graduates went rural in the study period which was 16.4% of all rural doctors produced by Canadian programs.
 

Top 4 Rural Family Practice Programs in Canada in 2003
The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada is pleased to award four family practice programs top honours for doing the most in helping train doctors for the 31%¹ of Canadians who live in predominantly rural regions.  Here are the winners for the year 2003:

1. Family Medicine North
2. University of Alberta
3. University of Calgary
4. Memorial University of Newfoundland

This year we award the Keith Trophy to the overall winner, Family Medicine North. They also won in 2001

Methodology

For this year, the winners were determined by the results of performance in actually having graduates practicing in rural areas, the amount of rural content in the program, and the percentage of R3 programs where more than 10% of graduates practiced in rural areas (eg FP-anesthesia, FP-Surgery, advanced maternity care etc).

Family medicine residents were identified through the Canadian Post MD Educational Registry.  Practice location was taken from the Canadian Medical Association database two years after graduation.
 

Top 4 Rural Family Practice Programs in Canada in 2002
The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada is pleased to award four family practice programs top honours for doing the most in helping train doctors for the 31%¹ of Canadians who live in predominantly rural regions.  Here are the winners for the year 2002:

1. Memorial University
2. Université de Sherbrooke
3. Université Laval
4. University of Western Ontario

This year we award the Keith Trophy to the overall winner, Memorial University (see the news release). They also won the Inaugural Keith Awards in 2000. Family medicine North won in 2001

Methodology

For this year, the tenth anniversary of the Society of Rural Physicians, the winners were determined by the results of performance in actually having graduates practicing in rural areas at 10 years after graduation,

Family medicine residents were identified through the Canadian Post MD Educational Registry for 1989 to 1991.  Practice location was taken from the Canadian Medical Association database ten years later.
 

Top 4 Rural Family Practice Programs in Canada in 2001
The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada awarded four family practice programs top honours for doing the most in helping train doctors for the 31%¹ of Canadians who live in predominantly rural regions.

1. Family Medicine North
2. Memorial University
3. Université Laval
4. Université de Sherbrooke

This year we award the Keith Trophy to the overall winner, Family Medicine North (McMaster's Program based in Thunder Bay).  This program was second in reputation and first in percentage of rural graduates. The SRPC news release is at http://www.srpc.ca/media/

Methodology

The winners were determined by combining the results of performance in actually having graduates practicing in rural areas at two years after graduation, and the second, by reputation for quality rural training as determined by survey.  Actually having physicians go practice in rural placements after their training was weighted at 60% of the final score.  Assessment of quality of training was weighted at 40%.

Family medicine residents were identified through the Canadian Post MD Educational Registry for 1997 and 1998.  Practice location was taken from the 2000 Canadian Medical Association database.  Rural was defined as communities under 10,000 population at 1996 census by Statistics Canada.
 

Top 5 Rural Family Practice Programs in Canada in 2000

The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada is pleased to award 5 family practice programs top honours for doing the most in helping train doctors for the 31% of Canadians who are rural.  Here are the winners for the year 2000:

1. Memorial University of Newfoundland
2. Université Laval
3. McMaster University (including Family Medicine North, Thunder Bay)
4. University of British Columbia
5. University of Saskatchewan

The overall winner, Memorial was the first place winner in the quality score and was second place in its performance in having graduates of the program practicing in rural areas at two years out.

Methodology

The winners were determined by combining the results of performance in actually having graduates practicing in rural areas at two years after graduation, and the second, by reputation for quality rural training as determined in a survey.  Actually having physicians go practice in rural placements after their training was weighted at 70% of the final score. 
 
 

Top Rural Family Practice Programs % Rural Graduates    Université Laval   46%    Memorial University of Newfoundland    35%    University of Saskatchewan   29%    University of Manitoba    27%    University of British Columbia    23%    Canadian Average 18.3%    18.3%

Assessment of quality of training was weighted at 30% and was determined by a poll of practicing rural physicians on April 4th at the 8th Rural and Remote conference in Ottawa. The distribution of registrants at the conference was representative of the regions. Rural components of each university's Department of Family Medicine were included where applicable in the following results.

 

Top Rural Family Practice Programs Reputation Scores  Memorial University of Newfoundland    300   McMaster University   260   University of British Columbia   240   University of Ottawa   240   Queens University   220

Note: All Family Practice programs of the University, included those designated "Rural" programs have been included in the scores so as to fairly compare university departments of Family Medicine.