Halili, Servando ‘Ben’ Jr., Cristobal, Fortunato, Woolley, Torres, Ross, Simone J., Reeve, Carole, and Neusy, A-J. (2017) Addressing health workforce inequities in the Mindanao regions of the Philippines: tracer study of graduates from a socially-accountable, community-engaged medical school and graduates from a conventional medical school. Medical Teacher, 39 (8). pp. 859-865.

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Developing and retaining a high-quality medical workforce in low-resource countries is a worldwide challenge. The Filipino Ateneo de Zamboanga University–School of Medicine (ADZU-SOM) has adopted a strong focus on socially accountable health professional education (SAHPE) in order to address the shortage of physicians across rural and urban communities in the Western Mindanao region. A cross-sectional survey of graduates from two Philippines medical schools: ADZU-SOM in the Mindanao region and a medical school with a more conventional curriculum, found ADZU-SOM graduates were more likely to have joined the medical profession due to a desire to help others (p=0.002), came from lower socioeconomic strata (p¼0.001) and had significantly (p<0.05) more positive attitudes to community service. ADZU graduates were also more likely to currently work in Government Rural Health Units (p<0.001) or be generalist Medical Officers (p<0.001) or Rural/Municipal Health Officers (p=0.003). ADZU graduates were also less likely to work in private or specialist Government hospitals (p=0.033 and p=0.040, respectively) and be surgical or medical specialists (p=0.010 and p<0.001, respectively). The findings suggest ADZU-SOM’s SAHPE philosophy manifests in the practice choices of its graduates and that the ADZUSOM can meet the rural and urban health workforce needs of the Western Mindanao region.

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