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  • Rethinking registrar attributes for Australian rural general practice training

    Author(s)
    Eley, DS
    Laurence, C
    David, M
    Cloninger, CR
    Walters, L
    Griffith University Author(s)
    David, Michael
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    Objective: Despite increases in Commonwealth funded general practice (GP) Registrar training positions, workforce trends continue to show geographical maldistribution. This study aimed to identify Registrar attributes which describe a cohort choosing to work in rural practice. Design: Cross-sectional self-report questionnaire for socio-demographics, prior training, current training pathway, measures of personality and resilience. Participants and Setting: GP Registrars (N = 452) training in either the general or rural pathways of three Registered Training Providers in three states, or training through the Australian College ...
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    Objective: Despite increases in Commonwealth funded general practice (GP) Registrar training positions, workforce trends continue to show geographical maldistribution. This study aimed to identify Registrar attributes which describe a cohort choosing to work in rural practice. Design: Cross-sectional self-report questionnaire for socio-demographics, prior training, current training pathway, measures of personality and resilience. Participants and Setting: GP Registrars (N = 452) training in either the general or rural pathways of three Registered Training Providers in three states, or training through the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine's independent pathway. Main outcome measure: Ordinal logistic regression tested the impact of key variables on the likelihood that Registrars would settle in rural practice. Univariate analysis explored differences between groups and effects of variables. Results: A significantly increased interest in rural practice was to found to exist among registrars who were male, identified themselves as being rural, had a partner who identified as being rural, were enrolled in a rural training pathway and had high levels of Cooperativeness. Conclusion: We present a discriminating model combining socio-demographics, prior training and personality variables which challenges Australia to rethink Registrar attributes when training for rural general practice. With significant changes about to occur to GP training in Australia, this paper highlights the need for a more holistic approach which considers personal attributes such as Cooperativeness, rural identity and provision of geographically focused rural training pipelines to encourage Registrars to bond to individual rural communities and further develop their personal connectedness to country life and rural medical practice.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Rural Health
    Volume
    25
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12319
    Subject
    Biomedical and clinical sciences
    Human society
    general practice registrars
    personality
    personality traits
    rural
    rural general practice training
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/407277
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