Career choices of the first seven cohorts of JCU MBBS graduates: producing generalists for regional, rural and remote northern Australia

Dr Torres Woolley

qualifications: PhD, MPHTM

contribution: original concept, designed the project, collected data, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft

position: Senior Lecturer

Australia

Prof Sarah Larkins

qualifications: PhD, MBBS, MPHTM, FRACGP, FARGP

contribution: devised survey tool, literature review, contributed to drafts

position: Professor & Associate Dean (Research)

Australia

I'm a GP and Health Systems Researcher in Townsville, working at James Cook University.

Prof Tarun Sen Gupta

qualifications: PhD, MBBS, FRACGP, FACRRM

contribution: devised survey tool, literature review, contributed to drafts

position: Professor of Health Professional Education

Australia

Tarun Sen Gupta is Professor of Health Professional Education and Head of the Townsville Clinical School at the James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry, North Queensland, Australia. He was in rural practice in Richmond, north-west Queensland from 1987-1993, and has worked in rural medical education since 1993. He is a Rural Generalist Training Adviser for Queensland's Rural Generalist Pathway, a board member of the Rural Doctors Association of Queensland and the Rural Doctors Foundation, and Chair of the ACRRM Assessment Committee.