Why community members want to participate in the selection of students into medical school.

Introduction: Medical schools around the world have established affirmative selection policies to support applicants from the populations they serve. Increasingly they are involving community members in selecting students into medical school. At Flinders University, South Australia, community involvement in the selection of students into the medical school can be by participation in the mainstream Graduate Entry Medical Program (GEMP) selection process at the city campus in Adelaide, or through membership of the rural based Community Liaison Committee (CLC).

The influence of geographical location on the complexity of rural general practice activities.

Objectives: To examine the complexity of activities undertaken in general practice in relation to degree of rurality of the practice.

Design And Setting: National mail questionnaire survey across non-metropolitan Australia in July 2002.

Participants: 1498 respondents out of 4406 GPs providing at least 375 Medicare-rebatable consultations in rural and remote locations during January-March 2002 (response rate, 35%).