I've been part of the University of Western Ontario Their program was originally called SWARM. Then it was changed to SWOMEN, the Southwestern Ontario Medical Education Network, and it was started by Dr. James Rourke. We wrote a paper about 20 years ago about if you grow the doctor locally, you will more likely end up with the doctor in your area.
Gateway has picked up on that. They take high school students who are interested in medicine and let them do a camp with us. They pair along with me and other university students and other medical students as mentors to show them that yes, you could have a career in a rural area that's exciting, invigorating, intellectually challenging, and you could live there. Some of them are worried that if they go to the city and then come back to the rural area, their academics will stop, that will be the end of it.
They already know what it's like to live in a small town because that's where they grew up. If we can make sure that we continue that training from high school to undergrad to residency to doing research, then they're more likely to stay. We've seen success after success over the last dozen years.