Distribution Dilemma
This classification of areas has the highest concentration of doctors.
What is a major city?
This term describes the fatigue from long hours and minimal staffing in rural healthcare
What is burnout?
This health delivery method is vital in improving access for remote communities.
What is telehealth?
This program gives medical students rural placements during their education.
What is the John Flynn Placement Program?
List 4 advantages of practicing rurally
What is a Broader scope of Practice?
What is Complex Interdisciplinary collaboration?
What is increased resourcefulness?
What is advanced clinical expertise?
What is community-oriented care?
What is continuity of care?
These areas experience the most severe medical workforce shortages.
What are remote and very remote areas?
One major personal reason doctors avoid rural work is concern for this family-related issue.
What is partner employment or children’s education?
This group faces particularly poor health outcomes and requires culturally appropriate care.
Who are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?
This federal initiative requires medical graduates to serve in rural areas after graduation.
What is the Bonded Medical Program (BMP)?
Financial incentives help with this common concern for rural practitioners.
What is Cost of living or practice support?
This type of practitioner is commonly used to temporarily cover rural workforce gaps.
What is a locum or fly-in-fly-out doctor?
A professional reason that rural GPs cite for leaving is the lack of this kind of support.
What is specialist consultation or career development?
This term refers to a person’s ability to understand and navigate health systems.
What is health literacy?
This incentive-based program offers payments to rural GPs.
What is the Workforce Incentive Program (WIP)?
This specific GP training pathway helps develop advanced skills for rural doctors.
What is the Rural Generalist Pathway?
According to a 2017 AMA report, this percentage of new doctors went to metro areas.
What is 76%?
This emotional and psychological barrier often prevents doctors from moving to or staying in rural areas.
What is professional isolation or loneliness?
A major socioeconomic barrier to healthcare access in rural communities.
What is transport or low income?
This training program supports long-term rural exposure and education.
What is the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training (RHMT) program?
This challenge refers to the difficulty of keeping medical practitioners in rural areas over the long term.
What is retention?
Which specialty has the longest waiting time rurally?
What is Psychiatry?
Rural doctors often face this challenge when seeking time off or holidays.
What is lack of backup or coverage?
This key barrier to equitable care in rural areas refers to limited presences of facilities, services, diagnostic tools, and medical equipment.
What is lack of health infrastructure?
The RACGP Rural Generalist Training Program includes this specific training component for Rural GP Trainees.
What is remote and isolated practice training?
This is a major systemic limitation to many rural healthcare initiatives.
What is a lack of supporting infrastructure or long-term retention?