This study outlines to key principles for assisting policy makers to affect general practice specialty choice including emphasising work-life balance, using a mix of strategies for different people at different stages, giving excellent role models and targeted practical opportunities amongst other things.
Academic Publisher
This tool was designed to identify rural communities’ and critical access (rural) hospital’s strengths and challenges related to rural nurse recruitment and retention and is applicable for considering resource allocation.
A national framework with strategic directions for building the rural generalist medical workforce for improved access to high quality rural health services
The influence of place-based social processes on the retention of rural health workers
Three early career transitions were related to self (personal and professional), a sense of belonging and the overarching context of practice over a time continuum. A model was produced showing ‘novice to expert’ development
The influence of rural training to prepare students for expanded horizons in rural practice and includes inter-related themes of preparation and support, rural and remote health experience and rural lifestyle and socialisation.
A models showing pathways to rural retention. Exposure to rural education, recreation, upbringing facilitates practice in small rural communities through desire for familiarity, sense of place, community involvement and self-actualization. External influences are family, political, financial and resilience to adversity.
This study identified an interactive model that addresses recruitment and retention factors in three domains: individual, organisational and community.
A global framework to guide actions for remote rural workforce stability and retention
This tool was designed to identify rural communities’ and critical access (rural) hospital’s strengths and challenges related to rural physician recruitment and retention and is applicable for considering resource allocation.