Rural and remote Australia suffers a severe, chronic shortage of a diverse range of health
professionals. This is of major concern, because the people living in rural and remote …

International and national studies have reported that health professionals who grew up in a
rural area are more likely to return to work in a rural area than their urban raised …

Objective: To promote tertiary health careers to rural and remote young people. Design:
Qualitative research using large and small group discussions and semistructured interviews …

The persistent shortage and narrow range of health professions represented in most areas
outside of the metropolitan areas means there are few occupational role models available …

Introduction: Rural and remote Australia has a severe shortage of health professionals and
the health of its people is relatively poor. For decades, national and international studies …

Aims This paper describes the investments made, approaches taken and lessons learnt by
three rural Australian academic health departments engaged in the delivery of the Health …

Objective: Since 1994, as part of the Health Careers in the Bush program, Queensland
Health has run residential workshops to provide secondary school students from rural and …

Objective: Since 1994 a state‐wide program has been operating in Queensland to provide
non‐metropolitan secondary school students with information about health careers …

Background Previous research has explored the issues rural school leavers face when
choosing to study for a career in health. Barriers to further study, motivations influencing …

One way to impact positively on the shortage of health professionals in rural areas is to
effectively promote health careers to rural high school students. Rural high school careers …