Dr. Maurice’s research interests are in rural distributed health professions education; and community engagement to improve rural and Indigenous youth educational and career attainment. Distributed health professions education (DHPE) is a relatively new phenomenon worldwide which is experiencing a rapid expansion of programs and program types. DHPE allows for an urban based health professions school to contribute to health profession education in a location that would otherwise be too small to support a full health professions school, while the smaller location contributes to the urban schools’ social accountability mandate. Given that urban and rural contexts are quite distinct, issues arise around comparability, overlapping relationships, rural generalism, and social accountability. Supporting rural and Indigenous youth educational and career attainment is critically important to the success of our northern university, and to the success of our northern health professional training programs. Rural and Indigenous youth face greater barriers in pursuing post-secondary education, but if they do complete post-secondary education, they are more likely (than their urban counterparts) to return to a rural or Indigenous community for their career. Both of these areas are very important for social accountability and for the wellness of the population of northern B.C.