Recruitment and retention strategies

BC Academic Health Council - Interprofessional Rural Program of BC (IRPbc)

It is designed to foster rural recruitment of health professionals, and cultivate interprofessional education for client-centred collaborative care. The IRPbc places teams of four to six students from a wide range of health professional programs into smaller communities where they experience rural life and practice, as well as acquire advanced teamwork skills in addition to discipline-specific knowledge. The Academic Health Collaboration Environment for Teamwork in Research and Education hopes to evolve into an effective collaboration tool for teams that operate at the interface between health research, health education and health care practice. http://www.bcahc.ca/BCAHC_page.asp?pageid=696

Calgary Health Region, Home Care Program

This home care program offers a range of services from nursing, therapy, rehabilitation to personal care. The program uses behavioral descriptive interview techniques to recruit new members to its team. Highlighted is the applicant screening and behaviour descriptive interview package for community care coordinator positions.

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People and Planning: A Human Resources Toolkit for CAPC/CPNP Projects

This information is not primary health care specific yet it provides a very good overview of management and human resources functions including strategic planning, evaluation, hiring, orientation, training, supervision, etc. The information is very general in nature and applicable to most settings. http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/dca-dea/programs-mes/capc-cpnp_pphr_e.html