Why do doctors work in rural areas in high‐income countries? A qualitative systematic review of recruitment and retention.
Objective: To identify and assess the drivers and barriers to recruiting and retaining doctors in rural communities of high‐income countries. Design: A systematic review and thematic analysis. Setting: Publications were sourced from medical and scientific databases online. Participants: Qualitative,...
| Publicado en: | Australian Journal of Rural Health Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 543 - 555 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=147877939&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 147877939 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10385282 FQO jtl: Australian Journal of Rural Health issn: 10385282 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2020 vid: 28 iid: 6 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 147877939 146985344 147877939 147877939 10.1111/ajr.12675 147877939 ppf: 543 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Why do doctors work in rural areas in high‐income countries? A qualitative systematic review of recruitment and retention. aug: au: Holloway, Patrick Bain‐Donohue, Suzanne Moore, Malcolm affil: Medical School – Australian National University (ANU) Medical School, ANU College of Health and Medicine, Canberra ACT,, Australia sug: subj: Physicians Rural Areas Personnel Retention Personnel Recruitment Developed Countries Workforce Human Systematic Review Thematic Analysis Multimethod Studies Professional Development Education, Medical Qualitative Studies PubMed Cochrane Library Data Analysis Software ab: Objective: To identify and assess the drivers and barriers to recruiting and retaining doctors in rural communities of high‐income countries. Design: A systematic review and thematic analysis. Setting: Publications were sourced from medical and scientific databases online. Participants: Qualitative, mixed‐methods and review studies from peer‐reviewed journals published since 2000 that discussed recruitment or retention of doctors to rural areas in high‐income countries. Main outcome measures: Identification and assessment of themes in the literature pertaining to recruitment and retention of rural doctors. Recurrent themes were assessed for relevance and applicability to current rural shortages. Results: A thematic analysis was completed on 41 papers assessed as in scope of the review. Papers were scrutinised for relevance to established rural recruitment and retention strategies. Key themes were rural background, education and training, personal and professional circumstances, and integration with the community. Conclusion: While rural origin has long been promoted as the key factor for recruiting rural doctors, initiatives targeting only these individuals ignore a potentially larger cohort of future rural doctors. Rurally focused medical education and training need to encompass students and doctors from all backgrounds. The major barriers to rural recruitment are family‐unit considerations for partners and children, concerns over isolation and a poor perception of rural practice. Attracting doctors to practise rurally is only half the challenge however, and strategies to retain rural doctors need a greater focus on personal and professional support networks and community integration. Additional strategies are needed to retain international and bonded doctors restricted to rural areas. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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