Selection, training and employment to encourage early-career doctors to pursue a rural postgraduate training pathway
Corresponding Author
Belinda O'Sullivan PhD
Faculty of Medicine, Rural Clinical School, The University of Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Correspondence
Belinda O'Sullivan, Faculty of Medicine, Rural Clinical School, The University of Queensland, Locked Bag 9009, Toowoomba, DC 4350, QLD, Australia.
Email: [email protected]
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Search for more papers by this authorTiana Gurney PhD
Faculty of Medicine, Rural Clinical School, The University of Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Contribution: Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing - review & editing
Search for more papers by this authorMatthew McGrail PhD
Faculty of Medicine, Rural Clinical School, The University of Queensland, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
Contribution: Data curation, Validation, Writing - review & editing
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Belinda O'Sullivan PhD
Faculty of Medicine, Rural Clinical School, The University of Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Correspondence
Belinda O'Sullivan, Faculty of Medicine, Rural Clinical School, The University of Queensland, Locked Bag 9009, Toowoomba, DC 4350, QLD, Australia.
Email: [email protected]
Contribution: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Search for more papers by this authorTiana Gurney PhD
Faculty of Medicine, Rural Clinical School, The University of Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Contribution: Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing - review & editing
Search for more papers by this authorMatthew McGrail PhD
Faculty of Medicine, Rural Clinical School, The University of Queensland, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
Contribution: Data curation, Validation, Writing - review & editing
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST
This research did not receive funding and had not been published in part or full elsewhere.
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DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Data and materials are protected by ethics but may be made available in de-identified format upon contact made to the corresponding author.
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