Keeping them interested: a national study of factors that change medical student interest in working rurally

Mr Matthew Kent

qualifications: BBiomedSci

position: Medical Student

Ms Antonia Verstappen

qualifications: MPH

position: Research Fellow

Prof Tim Wilkinson

qualifications: PhD

position: MBChB Programme Director

Medical Educator Urban based geriatrician

Prof Phillippa Poole

qualifications: MD

contribution: Senior author who designed and oversaw all stages of the project and supervised summer student Matthew Kent

position: Head, Department of Medicine

New Zealand

I am a general physician at Auckland City Hospital and Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Auckland. My research interests include medical education for future health needs, women in medicine, the generalist medical workforce, and comprehensive management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.