A decade of Australian Rural Clinical School graduates - where are they and why?

Prof Diann Eley

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, collected data, supervised data collection, wrote the first draft

position: Associate professor

Australia

health workforce, medical education, personality, behaviour, research ethics, research training, career choice

Robyn Synnott

qualifications: BA(Psych)

contribution: collected data, input data, contributed to drafts

position: Project officer

Peter Baker

qualifications: ChB, MD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Professor

Australia

General Practitioner with research and education background

Prof Alan Chater

qualifications: MBBS

contribution: original conceptual design, advised on early drafts, commented on final draft

position: Associate professor

Dr Chater has been a rural practitioner in rural Australia for 42 years. He was the founding convenor of the Rural Doctors Associations of Queensland and Australia as well as the National Rural Health Alliance. He has been President of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. He is Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice and Head of Discipline Rural and Remote Medicine, University of Queensland. He has a keen interest in Rural Health Policy as it effects rural communities as well as the clinical aspects of rural practice.