Employment Models to Attract and Sustain Rural Generalist Doctors: Barriers and Enablers

The research offers insights about the need for state-wide, coordinated regional and local levels of strategy, planning and implementation to achieve employment models that attract and sustain RGs. Further, attracting and sustaining RGs depends on establishing and implementing clinical service models for the range of RGs needed in the community, using outpatient clinics and other networked service options across the region. It also relies on appropriate pay that recognises the additional skills that RGs have. The results might inform Australia's National Rural Generalist Pathway and the state and territory RG programs and their coordination units with progressing attractive and sustainable RG employment.