As the new president of the SRPC, I have inherited a vibrant organization that has benefited much from the dedication and industry of my predecessors. Look at what rural medicine has attained in under a decade. The SRPC is recognized nationally as the credible voice of rural medicine. CJRM , Rural News and RuralMed link rural doctors and our issues. Membership is 1100 and rising.
Call is now compensable in most jurisdictions.
Decent rural training programs are now available for basic and advanced rural skills. Physicians are being offered more and more incentives to go rural. For one thing, the overall number of doctors is not increasing above that of the population. Unlike most of the proletariat, where a trade union needs a large constituency, the political power of doctors is dependent on scarcity of numbers. In effect, less is more.