Building a rural medical workforce: the foundations of a place-based approach to program evaluation

Lara Fuller, Jessica Beattie, Vincent L. Versace, Gary David Rogers, Matthew McGrail · 2025 · Frontiers in Medicine

Summary. A rural medical training program in Australia's Deakin University footprint admits 30 local students annually to address doctor shortages. Graduates who completed rural clinical schools, chose general practice, had rural backgrounds, and stayed in early postgraduate training were 3 to 7 times more likely to work in the target region. However, many left after three years, signaling the need for expanded rural specialty training to retain doctors locally.

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DOI

10.3389/fmed.2025.1582793

Countries

Australia

Regions

Oceania

Categories

rural-healthcare, education, regional-innovation-systems

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2026-04-28