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Volume 224 - Published ahead of Issue 11
Retention of Rural Generalist Doctors: Cohort Study of Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
Authors: Matthew R. McGrail, Belinda G. O'Sullivan, James Dawber
Correspondence: m.mcgrail@uq.edu.au
Correspondence: belinda.osullivan@monash.edu
Med J Aust 2026 || doi: 10.5694/mja2.70335
Published online: 10 November 2026
Published online: 10 November 2026
Abstract
The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) trains general practitioners in and for smaller rural and remote communities to work as rural generalists. Measured in 2025, about 58% of ACRRM fellows were retained working in Modified Monash Model 4–7 communities, including 17% in remote communities. Rurality distribution of rural generalist fellows was very similar across each of the first 10 years post-fellowship.
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