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Sustaining rural maternity and surgical care

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Jude Kornelsen, Stuart Iglesias and Robert Woollard
Canadian Family Physician January 2016; 62 (1) 21-23;
Jude Kornelsen
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and Co-director of the Centre for Rural Health Research.
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Family physician with enhanced surgical skills practising in Bella Bella, BC, and leads the Enhanced Surgical Skills Working Group at the Rural Coordination Centre of BC and the Rural Surgery Committee of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada.
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Associate Director of the Rural Coordination Centre of BC, a practising family physician, and Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia.
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