Role of personality in medical students' initial intention to become rural doctors

Jones, Michael; Eley, Diann; Lampe, Lisa; Coulston, Carissa; Malhli, Gin; Wilson, Ian G; Kelly, Brian; Talley, Nicholas J.; Owen, Cathy; Corrigan, Gerry; Griffin, Barbara; Humphreys, John Stirling; Alba, Beatrice; Stagg, Pamela

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Section: Personality Studies In Medical Students Doctors and Nursesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“… career choices (Ackerman & Beier, 2003;Eley, Eley, Bertello, & Rogers-Clark, 2012;Holland, 1997;Jones et al, 2013;Malhi et al, 2011),  career satisfaction (Richardson, Lounsbury, Bhaskar, Gibson, & Drost, 2009)  life satisfaction Josefsson et al, 2011;Magee, Miller, & Heaven, 2013).…”

Section: Temperament and Character Inventory (Tci)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A small body of research has begun to investigate personal traits in the medical and nursing workforce, looking for links with successful recruitment and retention (Eley, Eley, Young, & RogersClark, 2011;Eley, Young, & Przybeck, 2009b;Jones et al, 2013). Despite this, personal traits and motivation characteristics of AH professionals, particularly of AH professionals with experience in remote Australia, have received very little research attention in Australia or internationally (Dodd, Saggers, & Wildy, 2009).…”

Section: Temperament and Character Inventory (Tci)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Longevity in rural work for Australian general practitioners (GPs) was associated with lower levels of openness, described as 'a down to earth' personality (Jones, Humphreys, & Nicholson, 2012), while interestingly, medical students with rural intent were found to have higher levels of openness (Jones et al, 2013). Higher extraversion was associated with reduced intention for rural work (Jones et al, 2013), compared with higher agreeableness and conscientiousness, which were associated with rural intention for both medical students and current rural GPs (Jones et al, 2012). Students participating in rural placements have been reported as being very high in Self-directedness, Persistence and Cooperativeness Eley, Brooks, Zink, & Cloninger, 2014;Eley, Young, & Przybeck, 2009a) and having lower Harm Avoidance in rural students compared with urban-based students Eley et al, 2009a).…”

Section: Personality Studies In Medical Students Doctors and Nursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent work in medicine and nursing has sought to identify measurable personality characteristics that are predictive of professionals who 'thrive' rather than 'survive' in remote practice Eley et al, 2009b;Eley, Young, & Shrapnel, 2008;Jones et al, 2013). A similar approach aiming to understand the personal and motivational characteristics of the remote AH professional workforce has not been attempted (Dodd et al, 2009).…”

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Investigating the motivation and personal traits of allied health professionals working in remote and rural Australia: the Remote and Rural Allied Health Motivation and Personality (RRAHMP) study

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Background: Allied health (AH) workforce shortages in remote and rural Australia contribute to poorer health outcomes for residents in those areas. This gap in health workforce has long been recognised as problematic and persists despite strategies for improving recruitment and retention of AH professionals. This thesis reports on a new approach to addressing the recruitment to, and retention in, remote areas of AH professionals by investigating the personal traits and motivation characteristics of AH professionals with and without remote area work experience. Recent research has shown that the nursing and medical professions can be differentiated by personality traits, but little is known about the personality traits of AH professionals. Therefore, this research aimed to address that knowledge gap.The aim of the study was to identify the personality traits and motivation characteristics that might assist an individual to 'thrive' rather than 'survive' in the remote work environment. It Health achieved a sample size of 562 AH professionals, with full demographic data and a completed TCI. Dependent variables were the TCI dimensions, while independent variables were remote experience, gender, age, profession and grouping of the professions as either person-or technique-oriented. Analysis was descriptive of the whole sample and comparative between groups using independent samples t-test, ANOVA and subsequent two-way ANOVA with 95% confidence level.Strand 2 used Personal Construct Psychology's key technique, the repertory grid interview, to understand how AH professionals construed working in remote areas, in terms of the personal traits and motivation that contribute to success. Participants (n=34) were a purposively selected subset of Strand 1. The repertory grid interviews produced both iii qualitative and quantitative data. These were analysed qualitatively to identify the personal and motivation characteristics, and quantitatively using singular value decomposition and Euclidean distance to compare differences construed by participants between remote and other AH work situations. Results:The following key findings were determined from personality trait results, together with the repertory grid results: The AH professionals appear to have mature personality characteristics, i.e. high or very high levels of Reward Dependence, Persistence, Self-directedness and Cooperativeness. The AH professionals with remote experience had higher Novelty Seeking and average Harm Avoidance levels compared with AH professionals without remote experience. Younger AH professionals tended towards higher Harm Avoidance levels.

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Section: Personality Studies In Medical Students Doctors and Nursesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Temperament and Character Inventory (Tci)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Temperament and Character Inventory (Tci)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Personality Studies In Medical Students Doctors and Nursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Summarising the Facts And Introducing The Research Questionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Investigating the motivation and personal traits of allied health professionals working in remote and rural Australia: the Remote and Rural Allied Health Motivation and Personality (RRAHMP) study

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Attitudes and attributes of pharmacists in relation to practice change – A scoping review and discussion

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Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

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Applying behavioral insights to increase rural and remote internships: Results from two Randomized Controlled Trials

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Role of personality in medical students' initial intention to become rural doctors

Cited by 16 publications

References 34 publications

Investigating the motivation and personal traits of allied health professionals working in remote and rural Australia: the Remote and Rural Allied Health Motivation and Personality (RRAHMP) study

Investigating the motivation and personal traits of allied health professionals working in remote and rural Australia: the Remote and Rural Allied Health Motivation and Personality (RRAHMP) study

Attitudes and attributes of pharmacists in relation to practice change – A scoping review and discussion

Applying behavioral insights to increase rural and remote internships: Results from two Randomized Controlled Trials

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