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Annals of Family Medicine 4:S45-S48 (2006)
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doi: 10.1370/afm.559
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Social Accountability in Theory and Practice

James Rourke, MD, FCFP(EM), MClSc

Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, New-foundland and Labrador


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  		Figure 1. First-year enrollment in medical schools in Canada, 1968 to 2005.

Source: Canadian Medical Education Statistics, Vol 28. Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, 2006.

CMF = CMF Report: Canadian Medical Forum Task Force on Physician Supply in Canada (Report 1999). Available at http://cua.org/socioeconomics/physician_supply_2000.pdf. Accessed 20 August 2006.

Notes: As geographic background, Canada has an area of 3.9 million square miles (making it larger than the United States) but has only 32 million people and 17 medical schools.

 

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  		Figure 2. A partnership pentagram showing the 5 broad groups of stakeholders influencing the social accountability projects of Canadian medical schools.

Note: Adapted from: World Health Organization. Towards Unity for Health: Challenges and opportunities for partnership in health development. Geneva: WHO; 2000. Available at: http://www.who.int/entity/hrh/documents/en/TUFH_challenges.pdf. Accessed 7 August 2006. See also 2004 Association of Canadian Medical Colleges (ACMC) Social Accountabilities Poster. Presented at the 2004 ACMC-CAME (Canadian Association for Medical Education) annual meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Available at: http://www.afmc.ca/pages/articles_social_accountability.html. Accessed 7 August 2006.

 




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