Association between rural exposure/experience and practice location 10 years postgraduation, stratified by specialty: evidence from a cohort study of graduates from nine Australian universities.

Objective: This study aims to determine the associations between specialty type and practice location at postgraduate year 10 (PGY10), matched with PGY5 and PGY8 work locations, and earlier rural exposure/experience.

Design And Setting: A cohort study of medicine graduates from nine Australian universities.

Participants: 1220 domestic medicine graduates from the class of 2011.

How the training pathways and capacity of rural physicians inform their scope of practice: A qualitative study examining the experiences of Australian and international medical graduates in South-East New South Wales, Australia.

Introduction: Current strategies to address shortages of rural doctors focus on developing a pipeline for rural generalist practice. Limited research has explored how doctors' professional journey engenders the skills required to practice rurally.

Objective: This paper analyses how rural general practitioners' clinical pathway informs their scope of practice and future retention.

Developing interconnectedness is critical in retaining rural general practitioners: A qualitative thematic analysis of recently recruited general practitioners to South East New South Wales, Australia.

Australia, in common with many countries globally, has a shortage of doctors working rurally. Whilst strategies and current research focus on recruitment, attrition from rural practice is a significant determinant of such shortages. Understanding doctors' decisions to stay or leave, once recruited, may provide further insights on how to address this rural differential.

The impact of extreme heat on older regional and rural Australians: A systematic review.

Introduction: Extreme heat causes a major health burden, especially for older Australians.

Objective: To assess the impact of extreme heat on older regional and rural Australians, including clinical presentations, social implications, and health-seeking behaviours and adaptations.

Design: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Implications of telehealth services for healthcare delivery and access in rural and remote communities: perceptions of patients and general practitioners.

Background: Accelerated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Australia has shifted towards greater use of telehealth to deliver care for rural and remote communities. This policy direction might risk a shift away from the traditional model of informed person-centred care built around care relationships to a technology-mediated health transaction. Potential opportunity costs of widespread telehealth services on the quality of care for rural and remote communities remain understudied.

Do General Practitioners in a Visiting Medical Officer Arrangement Improve the Perceived Quality of Care of Rural and Remote Patients? A Qualitative Study in Australia.

Background: In rural and remote Australia, general practitioners (GPs) provide care across the continuum from primary to secondary care, often in Visiting Medical Officer (VMO) arrangements with a local hospital. However, little is known about the role of GP-VMOs in improving the perceived quality of care and health outcomes for rural and remote communities. Methods: We collected qualitative data from three GP-VMOs (all aged >55 years) and 10 patients (all aged over 65 years) in three local health districts of New South Wales, Australia.

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

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).

Effects of employing primary care doctors in hospital to improve the quality of care and health outcomes of rural patients: A systematic scoping review.

Objective: To describe effects of employing primary care doctors in hospital care and their roles in improving the quality of care and health outcomes of rural and remote patients.

Design: A systematic scoping review.

Setting: Peer-reviewed publications were sourced from 3 online journal databases (PUBMED, SCOPUS and Web of Science).

It sounds like a good handover but can I trust it: the correlation between perceived quality and accuracy?

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Background Safe handover is crucial in healthcare and is taught in undergraduate and pre-vocational training curricula.

Why do doctors work in rural areas in high-income countries? A qualitative systematic review of recruitment and retention.

Objective: To identify and assess the drivers and barriers to recruiting and retaining doctors in rural communities of high-income countries.

Design: A systematic review and thematic analysis.

Setting: Publications were sourced from medical and scientific databases online.