TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jones, GI
AU  - Alford, KA
AU  - Russell, UJ
AU  - Simmons, D
Y2  - 2014/05/21
Y1  - 2003/10
SN  - 1038-5282
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/26285
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To assess the extent of undergraduate health student placements in regional hospitals in northern Victoria in 1999, prior to substantial changes in rural undergraduate medical education in Australia. METHOD: Cross sectional postal survey with telephone follow-up in north-east Victoria. Subjects were all 17 regional and rural hospitals involved in health student teaching in North-east Victoria. Main outcome measures were the numbers, duration and discipline of health students placements and reported barriers to such placements. RESULTS: Large regional hospitals accounted for two-thirds of all undergraduate health student placements. Smaller sites placed few allied health students. Barriers to a larger, more sustainable system of rural placements and rotations included accommodation shortages and funding constraints, particularly in smaller rural hospitals. CONCLUSIONS: Adequate resourcing of placements of a meaningful duration, stronger institutional support, and improved resourcing of regional accommodation is required to facilitate a larger, more systematic and sustainable system of medical and health student placements in rural areas.
N1  - application/pdf
LA  - eng
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Primary Health Care; Educational Policy
KW  - Administration and Management; Rural Health
T1  - Removing the roadblocks to medical and health student training in rural hospitals in Victoria.
DO  - 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2003.00523.x
IS  - Australian Journal of Rural Health
VL  - 11
IS  - 5
SP  - 218-223
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/26285/116057_5114.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=n
ER  -