The Australian Rural Clinical School (RCS) program supports rural medical workforce: evidence from a cross-sectional study of 12 RCSs

Dr Joe McGirr

qualifications: FACEM

contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting of manuscript, Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision

position: Associate Dean Rural

Australia

NSW State MP for the seat of Wagga Wagga Interests include osteoporosis, rural health workforce, climate change, medical education

Dr Alexa Seal

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision

position: Researcher

Amanda Barnard

qualifications: FRACGP

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Head of School

Amanda Barnard is Associate Dean, Rural Clinical School, Australian National University Medical School in Canberra, Australia. She works as a GP in Braidwood, a small rural town in south-east New South Wales. While her interests include rural medical education, interprofessional learning and health service delivery, she has a particular interest in the primary care management of respiratory illness.

Dr Colleen Cheek

qualifications: MIS

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Senior Research Fellow

Australia

A/Prof David Garne

qualifications: MIPH(Hons)

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Director

Australia

Currently Director: Primary, Remote and Rural at the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong. Areas of interest include rural medical education, longitudinal clerkships, the development of clinical reasoning and professionalism in medical students, rural workforce, and retrieval medicine (particularly aeromedical retrievals).

Prof Jennene Greenhill

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Associate Dean

Australia

I am an Associate Professor & Director Flinders University Rural Clinical School. Coordinator for the Masters in Clinical Education Program. Research interests: health services, change management and integration, general practice, aged care and mental health issues.

A/Prof Srinivas Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan

qualifications: MPH

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Director of Research

Assoc Prof Georgina Luscombe

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Senior Lecturer

Prof Jenny May

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Director

Australia

Dr Janet Mc Leod

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Associate Professor in Medical Education

Dr Belinda O'Sullivan

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Research Fellow

Australia

Rural health workforce and models of care

A/Prof Denese Playford

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Associate Professor Medical Education

Australia

I work as medical educator for The Rural Clinical School of Western Australia, reaching academics in 14 widely distributed sites and approximately 90 students per annum, to ensure assessment is standardised, curriculum is well supported, and evaluation is conducted each year.

I am interested in the development of a rural workforce, describing workforce trends, and building local communities of practice. I'm also interested in service learning as a way of engaging medical students' values and transformative learning as a way to change students' perspectives about what's important in their work and life.

Prof Julian Wright

qualifications: FAcedMGd

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Head

Australia

Professor of Medicine Head of Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne Clinical Dean of Rural Clinical School Consultant Nephrologist Main research interests are Chronic ill health and medical education