Profiles And Contributions To This Article
"Latte rural": the tangible and intangible factors important in the choice of a rural practice by recent GP graduates
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.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts
position: Lecturer
Australia
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
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
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