Objective: To determine whether a short‐term placement of metropolitan medical students in
a rural environment can improve their knowledge of, and change their attitudes to, rural …

Well-structured voluntary rural placements have a positive and independent impact on the
likelihood of undergraduate students going into rural and remote practice, or so the latest …

Background. This study examined postgraduate work after an undergraduate clinical year
spent in the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia (RCSWA), compared with 6 weeks …

Introduction: This study is based on the metaphor of the'rural pipeline'into medical practice.
The four stages of the rural pipeline are:(1) contact between rural secondary schools and the …

Introduction: The key parameter for rural clinical schools (RCSs) is to provide at least 1 year
of clinical training in rural areas for 25% of Australian Commonwealth supported medical …

Introduction: This longitudinal tracking project by the University of Queensland Rural Clinical
School (UQRCS) provides data on the early career pathways of alumni since its inception in …

OBJECTIVES: To identify factors that influence the initial plan and final decision to choose a
rural area as first employment location in final-year nursing students or newly graduated …

Background Community nursing placements play an increasingly important part in the
undergraduate nursing students learning experience as a greater proportion of health care …

Aims and objectives To present the findings from the experienced rural nurse participants of
a larger study that explored the transitional experiences of newly graduated nurses making …

Objectives: To determine whether recruitment of rural students and uptake of extended rural
placements are associated with students' expressed intentions to undertake rural internships …