Decision criteria in health professionals choosing a rural practice setting: development of the Careers in Rural Health Tracking Survey (CIRHTS)

Deborah Schofield

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, devised survey tool, contributed to drafts, literature review, original concept

position: Associate professor

Australia

Dr Deborah Schofield Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Sydney Research Leader, Australian Rural Health Research Collaboration Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health PO Box 3074, Lismore NSW 2480 Ph: 61 2 6620 2601 Fax: 61 2 6620 7270 Research interests: Ageing, health workforce, inequality

Jeffrey Fuller

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, contributed to drafts

position: Associate professor

Australia

Research interests in models of mental health service delivery for rural and remote locations, regional public health planning, service models to deliver high quality health care to minority communities in rural locations (immigrant and Indigenous communities) and the development of academic and practitioner collaboration to improve health care.

Susan Fletcher

qualifications: PGDip Psych

contribution: literature review, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts

position: Research Officer

Australia

Susan Fletcher, Research Officer. Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health PO Box 3074, Lismore NSW 2480 Ph: 61 2 6620 7374 Fax: 61 2 6620 7270 Research interests: Workforce, rural and mental health.

Hudson Birden

qualifications: MPH

contribution: devised survey tool, literature review, contributed to drafts

position: Senior Lecturer

Australia

Research Interests: Medical education through long term placements/clerkships infectious diseases epidemiology public health history of health and disease

Sue Page

qualifications: BMed

contribution: devised survey tool, literature review, contributed to drafts

position: Director of Education

Australia

Director of Education, Northern Rivers University Dept of Rural Health President, Rural Doctors Association of Australia

Karen Kostal

qualifications: BSpchPathol

contribution: devised survey tool, contributed to drafts

position: Speech pathologist

Scott Wagner

qualifications: BHlthSci

contribution: devised survey tool

position: Dietician

Luke Schultz

qualifications: BPhysio

contribution: devised survey tool, contributed to drafts

position: Physiotherapist