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1
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2009-5-27
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The Australian Rural Clinical Schools, established nationally in 2000-2001, have provided an opportunity for medical students to undertake their clinical training across a network of hospitals, general practice surgeries and community medical centres in locations throughout Australia. The Rural Clinical School at the University of Queensland was established in 2002, as the Rural Clinical Division (RCD) of the School of Medicine, which provides a four-year graduate MB BS program. Students may elect to train in their 3rd and/or 4th year in one of three clinical divisions, namely Central, Southern (both based in Brisbane) or Rural which comprises teaching sites in south west Queensland and central Queensland region. Training must be of an equivalent nature throughout these three divisions, because students all sit the same examinations. Rigorous evaluation of the RCD teaching program underpins the goals of continuing improvement of both education and resources, and is also a key component of the reporting mechanisms linked to ongoing Commonwealth funding. Students' perception of their medical education at the RCD is the major focus of such evaluations in order to assist both educational improvement and required student recruitment. With this in mind, a questionnaire, the 'Year 4 Exit Survey' was developed to evaluate medical student perceptions of their 4th year experience at the RCD. Coupled to this was an analysis of internship choices to evaluate the important related issue of medical graduate retention. Objective: The increasing popularity of the RCD has prompted further investigation into the intern placement choice by these students. The provision of a positive medical education experience in a Rural Clinical School might be expected to influence this intern choice to favour a rural location. This preliminary report provides the results of the evaluations by one cohort of year 4 students and explores the relationship between rural undergraduate medical training experiences and subsequent recruitment and retention of junior medical personnel within local rural hospitals.
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eng
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IM
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MEDLINE
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1445-6354
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Electronic
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| pubmed:volume |
6
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
511
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pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Adult,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Attitude of Health Personnel,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Career Choice,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Clinical Competence,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Education, Medical, Undergraduate,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Hospitals, Rural,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Internship and Residency,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Job Satisfaction,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Longitudinal Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Needs Assessment,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Personnel Selection,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Personnel Turnover,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Professional Practice Location,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Program Evaluation,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Queensland,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Questionnaires,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Rural Health Services,
pubmed-meshheading:19469660-Students, Medical
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Does recruitment lead to retention? Rural Clinical School training experiences and subsequent intern choices.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
School of Medicine, Rural Clinical Division SWQ, University of Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Evaluation Studies
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