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Society of Rural Physicians of Canada

Société de la médecine rurale du Canada

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99.8% of Canada's 10 million square kilometres are rural by area. 31.4% of Canada s population or roughly 9 million people live in predominantly rural regions.1 Towns under 10,000 account for 22.2% of the population, and yet they are served by only 10.1% of physicians.2,3. (see also numbers)  Canada's larger rural and regional centres 10,000 to 100,000 population constitute 15.9% of the population and have only 11.9% of the physician pool2,3. With sub specialists and high technology of large cities distant, country doctors work in small groups in settings which require a broad spectrum of clinical skills. 

We find that the care we can provide for our patients and communities is very rewarding.  We enjoy a great variety of practice that often includes obstetrics, surgery, anaesthetics and emergency medicine together with hospital access and care of the acutely ill.  Socially we feel a part of our communities and enjoy outdoor living with many recreational opportunities.  We would be isolated if it were not for our efforts to improve this often neglected and impoverished sector of the health care system.  We are the SRPC.


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Continuing Medical Education


Manual of Rural Practice

Practice Soos Archive

Canadian Rural & Regional Health Professional Recruitment Inventory

Notes For Speaking to MPs

Child and Youth Mental Health Project Announcement update

Proceedings From the GP Surgery Sympossium, June 2007 - in three parts Part A - Part B - Part C

The Rural Road- The News

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SRPC spotlight on...
Dr John Wootton
President, SRPC
  

John Wootton has been a rural physician in Shawville, Quebec since 1983. On his way there he passed through Ocean falls, BC, Sioux Lookout, Ontario, and Wakefield, Quebec. His practice includes obstetrics, emergency, in-patient, and office-based care. He was the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, and briefly the Director of the Office of Rural health at Health Canada. He is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at McGill University, and is currently the Director of Professional Services at his hospital. When not at work he tries to find the time to sail or putter about on his vintage series 3 Land Rover or BMW motorcycle. 

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