Medical students' and GP registrars' accommodation needs in the rural community: insight from a Victorian study

Han, Gil‐Soo; Wearne, Ben; O’Meara, Peter; McGrail, Matthew Richard; Chesters, Janice Evelyn

doi:10.1071/ah030092

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“…Positive experiences with accommodation influence medical students and GP registrars' perception of rural medical practice and rural life, and impact on their decision to take up rural practice. 23 Management style and organisational policy were significant retention themes in this study. This has not been widely documented in the allied health workforce literature.…”

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Where do I go from here: We've got enough seniors?

Gillham

Ristevski

2007

Australian J Rural Health

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A number of strategies can be used by health care organisations in rural areas to recruit staff, including: career progression, mentoring and profession development, connecting people with social networks and providing financial remuneration. To maximise staff retention, it is important to ensure that there are career progression pathways within the organisation, and that organisational management and policy provides support and opportunities for staff. Staff also need to be included as part of a social network in the community.

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Where do I go from here: We've got enough seniors?

Gillham

Ristevski

2007

Australian J Rural Health

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“…Prolonged clinical attachments make the accommodation of students with a doctor's family, the traditional model used in many areas in the past, unrealistic and inappropriate today (Han et al 2003). Further, increasing numbers of students are older, have ongoing housing costs, and may well require accommodation for a partner and children.…”

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Twelve tips on rural medical placements: what has worked to make them successful

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Birden²

2008

Medical Teacher

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Providing undergraduate and post-graduate rural training opportunities aids rural medical recruitment. Medical schools that provide rural educational placements, and the communities that host those placements, must give serious consideration to the structure and supports required to ensure both quality and enjoyment of rural placements. This paper presents tips for success gleaned from the results of experience in providing rural placement opportunities to medical students throughout their medical school experience.

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Using evaluation to improve medical student rural experience

Moffatt

Wyatt

2016

Aust. Health Review

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Objective The aim of this evaluation was to see whether interventions implemented to improve the Rural Medicine Rotation made this a more effective rural medical education experience. Multiple interventions targeting the student experience, lecturers and preceptors were implemented. Methods A quasi-experimental design using pre- and post-measures was used. The participants were all University of Queensland, School of Medicine, Rural Medicine Rotation students who completed the 2009 and 2010 rural medicine rotation evaluations. There were 769 students, with an 84% response rate in 2009 and an 80% response rate in 2010. In addition, all the 25 program preceptors who were visited in 2009 and the 34 who were visited in 2010 participated in the study. Results The implementation of interventions resulted in significant improvement in three outcome measures, namely teaching effectiveness, provision of an environment supportive of learning in a rural/remote setting and opportunities for professional growth. Two of the three other outcome measures - ensuring a safe clinical placement and opportunities for procedural skills experience and development - were very positively evaluated in both 2009 and 2010. Conclusions The interventions contributed to a more effective rural medical education experience, providing students with the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge relevant for rural medicine and to gain an understanding of the context in which rural medicine is practiced. What is known about the topic? Many Australian medical schools offer students rural-based educational opportunities based on the premise that placing medical students in a rural setting may ultimately lead to them choosing careers in rural medicine. However, there is a paucity of evidence on the factors that are considered necessary for medical students to gain a positive rural experience of short conscripted rural placements. What does the paper add? This paper identifies successful interventions to the rotation and placements that provide a positive experience of the rural clinical placement for students. These interventions occurred within an ongoing evaluation program embedded in the rotation. What are the implications for practitioners? Through ongoing evaluation, interventions can be selected and implemented that succeed in contributing to students having a positive rural clinical placement experience. This paper demonstrates how an embedded continuous improvement program serves to provide direction for ongoing modifications.

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Medical students' and GP registrars' accommodation needs in the rural community: insight from a Victorian study

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Where do I go from here: We've got enough seniors?

Where do I go from here: We've got enough seniors?

Twelve tips on rural medical placements: what has worked to make them successful

Using evaluation to improve medical student rural experience

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