Influence of rural clinical school experience and rural origin on practising in rural communities five and eight years after graduation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine associations between extended medical graduates' rural clinical school (RCS) experience and geographic origins with practising in rural communities five and eight years after graduation.

Design, participants

Cohort study of 2011 domestic medical graduates from ten Australian medical schools with rural clinical or regional medical schools.

Main outcome measures

Practice location types eight years after graduation (2019/2020) as recorded by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, classified as rural or metropolitan according to the 2015 Modified Monash Model; changes in practice location type between postgraduate years 5 (2016/2017) and 8 (2019/2020).

Results

Data were available for 1321 graduates from ten universities; 696 were

SUBMITTER: Seal AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9322683 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature