- Title
- Influence of rurality on general practitioner registrars' participation in their practice's after-hours roster: A cross-sectional study
- Creator
- Morgan, Tobias; Tapley, Amanda; Magin, Parker; Davey, Andrew; Holliday, Elizabeth; Fielding, Alison; van Driel, Mieke; Ball, Jean; Spike, Neil; FitzGerald, Kristen; Morgan, Simon
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Rural Health Vol. 30, Issue 3, p. 343-351
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12850
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Objective: To investigate whether practice rurality and rural training pathway are associated with general practitioner registrars' participation in their practice's after-hours care roster. Design: A cross-sectional analysis of data (2017-2019) from the Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training study, an ongoing inception cohort study of Australian general practitioner registrars. The principal analyses used logistic regression. Setting: Three national general practitioner regional training organisations across 3 Australian states. Participants: General practitioner registrars in training within regional training organisations. Main outcome measure: Involvement in practice after-hours care was indicated by a dichotomous response on a 6-monthly Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training study questionnaire item. Results: 1576 registrars provided 3158 observations (response rate 90.3%). Of these, 1574 (48.6% [95% confidence interval: 46.8-50.3]) involved registrars contributing to their practice's after-hours roster. In major cities, 40% of registrar terms involved contribution to their practice's after-hours roster; in regional and remote practices, 62% contributed to the after-hours roster. On multivariable analysis, both level of rurality of practice (odds ratio(OR) 1.75, P = .007; and OR 1.74, P = .026 for inner regional and outer regional/remote locations, respectively, versus major city) and rural training pathway of registrar (OR 1.65, P = .008) were significantly associated with more after-hours roster contribution. Other associations were registrars' later training stage, larger practices and practices not routinely bulk billing. Significant regional variability in after-hours care was identified (after adjusting for rurality). Conclusion: These findings suggest that registrars working rurally and those training on the rural pathway are more often participating in practice after-hours rosters. This has workforce implications, and implications for the educational richness of registrars' training environment.
- Subject
- after-hours care; education; medical; graduate; family practice; physicians
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1464461
- Identifier
- uon:47006
- Identifier
- ISSN:1038-5282
- Rights
- © 2022 The Authors. Australian Journal of Rural Health published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of National Rural Health Alliance Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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