[Governmental measures in Quebec to promote medical practice in remote or isolated areas]

In the Province of Quebec a list of areas designated "remote" and "isolated" is published by the government. The list is revised yearly. The physicians who set up their office in these areas are entitled to receive financial and non financial supports from the government. The list of these supports has expanded broadly during the last 2 decades. Moreover, the government has designed a number of measures aimed at young medical students to attract them to these areas after they are graduated. Certain internal reports in the Ministry of Health and some publications have tried to assess the effects of all these governmental efforts. But an exhaustive appraisal is not yet available.