The Tasmanian medical program, with undergraduate entry and a 5-year duration, is the
main source of the medical workforce in Tasmania, providing about 36% of the whole …

Background Tasmania established its medical programme in 1965 to produce graduates to
address medical workforce recruitment challenges. Many Tasmanian graduates work in …

Introduction: Much of regional Australia continues to face challenges in recruitment and
retention of medical practitioners, despite the apparently successful rural medical education …

To provide the ongoing robust evidence needed for workforce planning, a national
longitudinal study will itself need to be sustained into the future lobally, medical workforce …

New Zealand (NZ) has a reputation for excellence in medical education and training, and
the cost-effectiveness of its health system. Like other Western countries, it is facing an …

Objective To identify under‐represented groups in a medical school intake. Design
Descriptive analysis of student demographic characteristics. Setting One state‐wide medical …

Workforce development is a useful concept in industry, in which selection, education and
training take place with the future workforce in mind. 1 Given the cost, effort and time to …

Introduction: Recruitment and retention of doctors to rural and remote areas is a well-known
problem to which very few countries are immune. Planning effective interventions to enable …

New Zealand has a maldistributed workforce that is heavily dependent on recruiting
international medical graduates. Shortages are particularly apparent in high needs …

Since 1999 the number of medical school places in Australia has increased substantially in
response to workforce shortages, with some of the increased capacity in regional and rural …