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The Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council and its network of Aboriginal health services has taken a prominent role in regional medical education since 2002. In the region, the Rural Clinical School of WA has grown from 1 student in 2002 to 11 students per year in 2007 and now 15 students in 2011. The regional PGPPP program has grown from 2 places in 2002 to 18 in 2011, and the regional GP registrar program has grown from none working in Aboriginal health in 2002 to an average of 17 full time 6 month terms per year across the Kimberley from 2008-2011.
This project aims to assess the effectiveness of the program in recruiting and retaining medical staff to work in Aboriginal Health in the Kimberley. Specifically, we wish to determine how many former Kimberley trainees:
- return to work in the Kimberley
- work in rural, remote and Aboriginal health
- work with Aboriginal and other hard to access populations
Data on career pathways will be collected from participants via an email or telephone survey on annual basis. The results will allow us to evaluate whether the program is successfully recruiting and retaining doctors in the rural and remote workforce, and provide evidence to support applications for increased funding for training students and junior doctors in the rural and remote setting.
- Assoc Prof David Atkinson
- Dr Sarah Moore
- Assoc Prof Julia Marley
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