Do undertaking rural placements and place of origin inform where allied health graduates work in South Australia?
allied health
recruitment and retention
rural health
rural workforce issues
student placements
Journal
The Australian journal of rural health
ISSN: 1440-1584
Titre abrégé: Aust J Rural Health
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 9305903
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2023
Jun 2023
Historique:
revised:
07
02
2023
received:
08
12
2022
accepted:
15
02
2023
medline:
19
6
2023
pubmed:
1
3
2023
entrez:
28
2
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To examine the principal place of practice after graduation of students who participated in the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training (RHMT) program and allied health students' place of origin. Cross-sectional study. Graduates who completed their degree in podiatry, occupational therapy and physiotherapy in 2019. Principal place of practice at first and third years after graduation. In 2020, 40 allied health professionals (AHPs) who graduated from the University of South Australia in 2019 were practising in rural areas but only 26 of them remained in the rural practice in 2022. The retention rate for rural practice was 65% within 2 years. However, in 2022, 25 allied health professionals left their metropolitan employment location and transitioned to rural practice. Of the 25 allied health graduates who joined the rural practice in 2022, most of them (80%, 20/25) had either rural exposure through the RMHT program or were from rural origin. Rural exposure via the RHMT program and allied health students' rural place of origin have an important role for rural principal place of practice at first and third years after graduation.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
575-579Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. Australian Journal of Rural Health published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of National Rural Health Alliance Ltd.
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