"Latte rural": the tangible and intangible factors important in the choice of a rural practice by recent GP graduates

Caroline Laurence

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, literature review, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts, supervised data collection

position: Senior research fellow

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.

Victoria Williamson

qualifications: PhD

contribution: statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts

position: Lecturer

Australia

Karen Sumner

qualifications: MBBS

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Medical consultant

Australia

Medical Consultant,interest in recruitment and retention of medical practitioners and models of sustainable practice

Jenny Fleming

qualifications: BSci (Hons)

contribution: supplied data, contributed to drafts

position: Manager, Corporate Planning and Development

Rural medical workforce research Rural general practice Sustainable medical practice Workforce skills and partitipation general practice as a positive career choice 10 years experience working in organisations that support attraction, recruitment and retention of medical practitioners in rural and remote SA