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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Thoughtful and determined effort will be needed to maintain and grow the number of rural-o
rigin students ready to commence courses that lead to health professional qualifications …

Abstract Objective Growing a strong Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce is
key to closing the gap in health outcomes between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous …

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 …

Introduction: One strategy aimed at resolving ongoing health workforce shortages in rural
and remote settings has been to implement workforce development initiatives involving the …

A strong First Nations health workforce is necessary to meet community needs, health rights,
and health equity. This paper reports the findings from a national survey of Australia's First …