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Medical students' reported barriers to training at a Rural Clinical School
Graeme I Jones1, Dawn E DeWitt, Susan L Elliott
1Rural Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Objective:
To understand and address students' concerns about attending one of the new Commonwealth-funded Rural Clinical Schools.
Design:
Analysis of students' reported reasons for clinical school selection from 2003 to 2004.
Setting:
The School of Medicine and the Rural Clinical School, University of Melbourne.
Participants:
Data were obtained from de-identified preference documents submitted by the medical student cohort assigned to the University of Melbourne clinical schools to begin in July, 2004.
Results:
Thirteen categories of student concerns (social) were identified from written student preference documents.
Conclusions:
Evaluation of the students' concerns about social dislocation if they were assigned to a rural clinical school has provided important information about perceived barriers to rural training. These issues must be systematically addressed at the school, university and community level.
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