Objective: To explore continuity of service and longer term retention outcomes of participants of the Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS). Design, setting, participants: Retrospective cohort study of all doctors who participated in the RVTS from 2000 to 2023, many of whom are international medi…
Objective: Explore stakeholder perspectives of the benefits of continuously training general practitioners in the same rural or remote practice in distributed locations via the Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS). Design, setting, participants: Online one-hour semi-structured interviews were co…
Objective: To examine associations between extended medical graduates’ rural clinical school (RCS) experience and geographic origins with practising in rural communities five and eight years after graduation. Design, participants: Cohort study of 2011 domestic medical graduates from ten Australian m…
Objective: To synthesise quantitative data on the effects of rural background and experience in rural areas during medical training on the likelihood of general practitioners practising and remaining in rural areas. Study design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of rural pipeline f…
Objective: To assess the number of pathology tests ordered by general practice registrars during their first 18e24 months of clinical general practice. Design: Longitudinal analysis of ten rounds of data collection (2010e2014) for the Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training (ReCEnT) study, an ongo…
• The workplace remains the most important learning environment for junior doctors in their postgraduate years. • There is no national curriculum to guide the education of prevocational doctors. • The apprenticeship model is under threat, and is not sustainable in the future without significant chan…
