Empiric validation of the rural Australian Medical Undergraduate Scholarship 'rural background' criterion.

Objective: Rural Australian Medical Undergraduate Scholarships (RAMUS) provide 10,000 dollars per annum to selected medical students with a rural background. Eligibility criteria include having lived in a rural community for five consecutive or eight cumulative years. We sought to validate the above-specified criterion using data from the Australian National Rural Background Study.

Factors associated with rural practice among Australian-trained general practitioners.

Objective: To determine the factors associated with general practitioners' current practice location, with particular emphasis on rural location.

Design: Observational, retrospective, case-control study using a self-administered questionnaire.

Setting: Australian general practices in December 2000.