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Alberta Section of Rural Medicine - sponsored by the Alberta

Medical Association. In addition to including information on the organization itself, there are a number of interesting materials in the library, as well as copies of all newletters and minutes of all Executive Committee meetings.

Rural Medicine Electronic Mailing List - Subscription Form (U of A)

National Rural Health Association (US) - This site contains a

number of links to specific research and other publications on specific topics of interest to rural physicians

Rural Physician Action Plan (RPAP) - Besides a description of

the plan itself, this site also includes links to the members of the RPAP Coordinating Committee and other key individuals involved in rural medicine in Alberta.

Community Profiles - This sub-page of the RPAP site, listed

above, includes specific information on many Alberta communities for the

use of practitioners considering a new practice location.

Rural Locum Program (Alberta) -

Society of Rural Physicians of Canada -

Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services

Administration, Department of Health and Human Services (US). This site includes a downloadable copy of the executive summary of "An Exploratory Evaluation of Rural Applications of Telemedicine"

Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine -

Rural Physician Action Plan Evaluation - an evaluation completed

by C. A. MacDonald & Associates on behalf of Alberta Health, 1995.

Evaluation of the Incentive Payment Program -

This evaluation, completed by C. A. MacDonald & Associates under the direction of the Incentive Payment Program Steering Committee in November, 1996, reviewed the historical context, the contextual changes, the program design, and the effectiveness of the program in attracting and retaining rural physicans in Alberta.

The MacDonald Report: An Evaluation of Alberta's Rural

Physician Action Plan - a review prepared by Jim Thompson MD, Sundre, Alberta.

Needs of Rural Physicians - A report prepared by: Hal Irvine MD,

FP; Carol Rowntree, MD, CCFP; Jim Thompson MD, CCFP

(EM). November 22nd, 1994. Prepared for the David Thompson

Health Care Region

Rural Critical Care - A paper prepared by Jim Thompson MD,

CFP(EM).David Thompson Regional Health Authority), Keith MacLellan MD, CM (President, Society of Rural Physicians of Canada), and Tom O'Neill MB, BcH, CCFP (Rural Physician, Shawville, Quebec). July 30, 1995.

REPORT #5. Registry of physicians leaving Alberta. Compiled by

the Alberta Medical Association

Identification and Management of Rural Communities at Risk for

Physician Manpower Crisis: Information for Regional Health

Authorities - March, 1996

Recruiting and Retaining Rural Physicians. A Report by the

Alberta Section of Rural Medicine to the Society of Rural Physicians

Invitational Consensus Conference in Banff, Alberta, April 9 1996.

Just for Fun.....

Weird Nursing Tales - this includes supposedly true stories from

nurses. There is a memo regarding Health Reform...... and a copy of the Nurses Prayer (Dear Lord, Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The Courage to change the things I can, And the Wisdom to hide the bodies of those Doctors I had to kill because they pushed me too far.)