Work of Female Rural Doctors

Wainer, Joanne

doi:10.1111/j.1038-5282.2004.00557.x

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“…Clearly there is scope to increase the rural workforce supply by increasing the take-up of rural practice by females to rates similar to those of males. However, this is unlikely unless expressed concerns of female doctors about difficulty in working part-time, on-call demands and more generally achieving a work-life balance are addressed [35,36]. …”

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Nature of association between rural background and practice location: A comparison of general practitioners and specialists

McGrail

Humphreys

Joyce

2011

BMC Health Serv Res

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BackgroundRural and remote areas are characterised by a shortage of medical practitioners. Rural background has been shown to be a significant factor associated with medical graduates' intentions and decisions to practise within a rural area, though most studies have only used simple definitions of rural background and not previously looked at specialists. This paper aims to investigate in detail the nature of the association between rural background and practice location of Australian general practitioners (GPs) and specialistsMethodsData for 3156 GPs and 2425 specialists were obtained from the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) study. Data on the number of childhood years resident in a rural location and population size of their rural childhood location were matched against current practice location. Logistic regression modelling was used to calculate adjusted associations between doctors in rural practice and rural background, sex and age.ResultsGPs with at least 6 years of their childhood spent in a rural area were significantly more likely than those with 0-5 years in a rural area to be practising in a rural location (OR 2.28, 95% CI 1.69-3.08), whilst only specialists with at least 11 years rural background were significantly more likely to be practising in a rural location (OR 2.27, 95% CI 1.77-2.91). However, for doctors with a rural background, the size of the community that they grew up in was not significantly associated with the size of the community in which they currently practise. Both female GPs and female specialists are similarly much less likely to be practising in a rural location compared with males (GPs: OR 0.53, 95% CI 0.45-0.62).ConclusionsThis study elucidates the association between rural background and rural practice for both GPs and specialists. It follows that increased take-up of rural practice by new graduates requires an increased selection of students with strong rural backgrounds. However, given the considerable under-representation of rural background students in medical schools and the reluctance of females to practise in rural areas, the selection of rural background students is only part of the solution to increasing the supply of rural doctors.

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Nature of association between rural background and practice location: A comparison of general practitioners and specialists

McGrail

Humphreys

Joyce

2011

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…A further potential problem for rural GP population noted in existing work in that little is known about current female practitioners' needs/wants, as they are perceived to be seriously underrepresented. This situation is unlikely to alter as fewer women are expected to go rural in the future despite more than 60% of training doctors currently being female 26 . Cohorts within the GP market are thus repeatedly misunderstood.…”

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“…We suggest that a continued focus on GPs in the ‘family’ age range is unlikely to attract and/or retain sufficient FTE GPs in a sustainable fashion. This cohort of GPs is dominated by women, 29 for whom dependent children represent a degree of detachment to the labour force related to the youngest child, 30 increasing the importance of regional primary, secondary and tertiary education and spousal work opportunities. Increases in the median age 8 and first time 31 of motherhood would suggest that this cohort will continue to present specific challenges for attracting and retaining rural GPs 32,33 .…”

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Recruitment and retention of rural general practitioners: A marketing approach reveals new possibilities

Hemphill

Dunn

Barich

et al. 2007

Australian J Rural Health

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“…Some of the more commonly reported reasons for work dissatisfaction and/or rural GPs leaving rural general practice include increased workload and professional isolation, family conflicts and increasing demand from a changing rural health care system (e.g. hospital closures and reduction in staff numbers) 3–6 . Other factors influencing the decision to leave rural general practice include inadequate leave from work, a lack of suitable and affordable child care, a lack of anonymity in rural communities, reduced employment opportunities for spouses and reduced educational opportunities for children 1,7–9 …”

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confidence: 99%