Supporting medical trainees = Supporting your community’s health

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This is how you bring physicians to your community.
https://www.vernonmorningstar.com/local-news/physician-shortage-addressed-with-vernon-home-for-medical-residents-7369045

- Original article by Roger Knox at the Vernon Morning Star.

Murphy's Landing in Vernon, British Columbia just moved its first medical resident into its newly developed, dedicated medical trainee housing. Thousands of residents in the area did not have access to a single family medicine doctor and now they have opened a residency program and provided affordable housing for its trainees.

Not a new concept, but just an example of how rural communities can create incentives and provide outreach to attract more candidates into the right place. Rural health matters and though everyone suffers from physician shortages, it has become dire in some communities more than others. With rapidly rising costs of living and a huge amount of medical student loan debt here in the US, providing housing as part of your trainee package is a surefire way to attract candidates.

Increasing residency programs and medical schools to provide training for those pursuing a career in medicine is known to be the best way of bringing more physicians to the community. Most residents don’t have any exposure to rural healthcare and therefore are undertrained and not aware of the many fulfilling aspects there can be to practicing in these areas. Those who have completed medical school and residency training in rural and underserved areas are far more likely to stay than those who have not.

Showcasing these types of developments and how you'll truly integrate into a community is what we are building at Grapevyne. It's not just another job board. It's not another recruiting agency either. Driven by physician referrals, it matches physicians who will most likely come and stay in a community because they get shared job posts from people they trust.