Australian and overseas trained doctors - a study of community integration, quality of life and the resultant retention in rural and remote Australia

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This study has explored the impact of the community integration of ATDs (Australian Trained Doctors) and OTDs (Overseas Trained Doctors) in rural and remote communities on their quality of life (QOL) and its resultant effect on their retention by developing a model of research linking QOL as the intervening variable between community integration (the independent variable) and retention (the dependent variable). A national survey of 279 rural and remote GPs was conducted between September and December 2010. Satisfaction levels of both types of GPs (ATDs and OTDs) in rural and remote Australia were observed regarding their community integration and QOL. The survey proper explored the objective experiences of GPs for community integration and QOL. Their satisfaction levels with community integration was measured using the ‘Experiential Place Integration’ framework first used by Cutchin in his paper, ‘Physician retention in rural communities: the perspective of experiential place integrati

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