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dc.contributor.authorPeach, Hedley G.en
dc.contributor.authorTrembath, Maxineen
dc.contributor.authorFensling, Bernieen
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-06T04:58:18Zen
dc.date.available2013-02-06T04:58:18Zen
dc.date.issued2004en
dc.identifier.govdoc00107en
dc.identifier.issn0025-729Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11054/220en
dc.description.abstractObjective: To determine whether medical graduates who spent their intern year at a non-metropolitan hospital were more likely to practise outside metropolitan areas on completion of training than were interns in metropolitan hospitals. Design: Retrospective follow-up of doctors who held year-long internships at a non-metropolitan hospital and interns from metropolitan hospitals. Setting: Ballarat Base Hospital (BBH) (Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Area [RRMA] rural zone) and hospitals in Melbourne and Geelong (RRMA metropolitan zone). Participants: 57/63 (90%) Victorian medical graduates completing internships at BBH between 1989 and 1997 and 126/126 (100%) sex-matched metropolitan interns, chosen at random. Main outcome measures: Practice location in 2002. Results: More BBH interns were practising as GPs outside metropolitan areas (44%) than metropolitan interns (13%) (difference, 31%; 95% CI, 17%–45%). The proportion of interns in specialist practice outside metropolitan areas was small for both groups — zero and 3%, respectively (difference, − 3%; 95% CI, − 6% to 0). None of the specialist training posts held by interns were outside metropolitan areas. Of BBH interns entering general practice, 41% (95% CI, 24%–58%) did so in the local health region. Conclusions: Regional interns are a good source of non-metropolitan GPs, especially locally. Prospective studies to determine the precise influence of regional internships on eventual practice location, and whether more such posts would lead to more graduates entering non-metropolitan practice, would be worthwhile.en
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dc.publisherAustralasian Medical Publishing Companyen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.mja.com.au/journal/2004/180/3/case-more-year-long-internships-outside-metropolitan-areasen
dc.titleA case for more year-long internships outside metropolitan areas?en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.type.specifiedArticleen
dc.bibliographicCitation.titleMedical Journal of Australiaen
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume180en
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue3en
dc.bibliographicCitation.stpage106en
dc.bibliographicCitation.endpage108en
dc.publisher.placeSydneyen
dc.subject.healththesaurusINTERNSHIPen
dc.subject.healththesaurusREGIONAL HEALTH EDUCATIONen
dc.subject.healththesaurusRURALen
dc.subject.healththesaurusMETROPOLITAN AREASen
dc.date.issuedbrowse2004-01-01en
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