Continuing medical education for isolated rural general practitioners--a journal project.
County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland is a rural area where general practitioners generally work single-handed and in geographical isolation from library facilities. In order to facilitate access to current medical journals for general practitioners a project was started to supply them with the contents pages of recently received general practice literature from a central medical library. Following telephoned or written requests, reprint articles of interest were forwarded by return post. The detailed costs and analysis of the exercise for one year are included.
D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D007494:Ireland; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000193:education*; D012424:Rural Population