Addressing the shortage of rural physicians in Victoria: maximising rural trainee recruitment

• 1 Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne, Shepparton; and Professor of Medicine, University of Auckland Waikato Clinical School, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand
• 2 South Yarra, VIC
• 3 Wangaratta, VIC
• 4 St John of God Hospital, Ballarat, VIC
• 5 Sale, VIC
• 6 Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, NSW.

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