Expectations and experiences associated with rural GP placements

Taryn Elliott

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, supervised data collection, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, designed the project, literature review, devised survey tool

position: Co-ordinator, education team: quality assurance and research

Australia

Education Team Coordinator: Quality assurance and Research Adelaide to Outback GP Training Program

Timothy Bromley

contribution: collected data, input data, devised survey tool

position: Undergraduate student

Australia

Anna Chur-Hansen

qualifications: PhD

contribution: supervised data collection, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts, devised survey tool

position: Associate professor

Caroline Laurence

qualifications: PhD

contribution: literature review, contributed to drafts

position: Research and development manager

Australia

Caroline Laurence is a Senior Research Fellow based in the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Adelaide. She also works part time as Research and Development Manager at the Adelaide to Outback GP Training Program. She completed her PhD in 2008. Her reserch intersts include rural medical workforce, health policy, chronic disease management and primary health care.