qualifications: PhD
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, collected data, supervised data collection, wrote the first draft
position: Associate professor
Australia
health workforce, medical education, personality, behaviour, research ethics, research training, career choice
qualifications: BA(Psych)
contribution: collected data, input data, contributed to drafts
position: Project officer
qualifications: ChB, MD
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Professor
Australia
General Practitioner with research and education background
qualifications: MBBS
contribution: original conceptual design, advised on early drafts, commented on final draft
position: Associate professor
Dr Chater has been a rural practitioner in rural Australia for 42 years. He was the founding convenor of the Rural Doctors Associations of Queensland and Australia as well as the National Rural Health Alliance. He has been President of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. He is Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice and Head of Discipline Rural and Remote Medicine, University of Queensland. He has a keen interest in Rural Health Policy as it effects rural communities as well as the clinical aspects of rural practice.