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What influences doctors to work in rural locations?
Author(s) -
Hudson Judith N,
May Jennifer A
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja14.01550
Subject(s) - workforce , economic shortage , work (physics) , tracking (education) , medical education , rural area , physician supply , workforce planning , public relations , health care , medicine , psychology , political science , economic growth , pedagogy , government (linguistics) , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , pathology
Two new sources of evidence are helping to address the “who” and “where” considerations. The Medical Schools Outcomes Database and Longitudinal Tracking (MSOD) Project has provided evidence of medical student career intentions on commencement and completion of undergraduate education, and data on location of practice in the early postgraduate years. In this issue of the Journal, Hays and colleagues describe their analysis of national MSOD data to determine where full-fee paying (FFP) students intend to practise.2 They conclude that FFP students are significantly more likely to practise in an urban area.