To the Editor: The rural clinical school (RCS) initiative is acknowledged as a successful policy response to the rural–urban medical workforce imbalance.1 Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan and colleagues' article regarding the location of practice of Commonwealth-supported alumni from the University of Queensland Rural Clinical School (UQRCS) concludes that there appears to be a compounding effect of RCS experience on a background of “rurality”, when compared with metropolitan students undertaking similar rural placements.2
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- 1. Hudson JN, May JA. What influences doctors to work in rural locations [editorial]? Med J Aust 2015; 202: 5-6. <MJA full text>
- 2. Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan S, Eley DS, Ranmuthugala G, et al. Determinants of rural practice: positive interaction between rural background and rural undergraduate training. Med J Aust 2015; 202: 41-45. <MJA full text>
- 3. Clark TR, Freedman SB, Croft AJ, et al. Medical graduates becoming rural doctors: rural background versus extended rural placement. Med J Aust 2013; 199: 779-782. <MJA full text>
- 4. Playford DE, Evans SF, Atkinson DN, et al. Impact of the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia on work location of medical graduates. Med J Aust 2014; 200: 104-107. <MJA full text>
- 5. Hays RB, Lockhart KR, Teo E, Smith J, Waynforth D. Full medical program fees and medical student career intention. Med J Aust 2015; 202: 46-49. <MJA full text>
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