qualifications: MD
contribution: original concept, designed the project, wrote the first draft
position: Professor of Family Medicine
United States
Bob Bowman began as a rural family physician and has facilitated health access workforce efforts in Texas, Tennessee, Nebraska, and Arizona, USA. He continues studies of health access contributions of various primary care sources using the Standard Primary Care Year measuring tool, and has also developed workforce distribution coding using concentrations of clinicians. He is working with Dignity Health and continues his efforts at the World of Rural Medical Education, Basic Health Access, and Physician Workforce Studies web sites and blogs (search Basic Health Access or Rural Medical Education).
qualifications: DHSc
contribution: contributed to drafts, literature review
position: Instructor in Emergency Medicine
United States
Health Services Researcher/Collaborative Scientist focused on organizational theory, study of medical team efficiency, analysis of response shift/recollection bias in PRO models, clinical decision rule implementation/evaluation, shared decision making models, and audit and feedback research in providers. Methodologist. PA-C practicing in non operative spine management.
Creating positive early rural placements in medical education
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Discharge against medical advice in rural and remote emergency departments
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Retention of early-career GPs as independent specialists in former training practices
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Rural GP Association of Scotland (RGPAS) Annual Conference #RGPAS24, 15–17 November 2024, Inverness, Scotland
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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