- Title
- Socioeconomic status of practice location and Australian GP registrars’ training: a cross-sectional analysis
- Creator
- Moad, Dominica; Tapley, Amanda; Fielding, Alison; van Driel, Mieke L.; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Ball, Jean I.; Davey, Andrew R.; FitzGerald, Kristen; Spike, Neil A.; Magin, Parker
- Relation
- BMC Medical Education Vol. 22, Issue 1, no. 285
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03359-x
- Publisher
- BioMed Central (BMC)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) is a major determinant of health. In Australia, areas of socioeconomic disadvantage are characterised by complex health needs and inequity in primary health care provision. General Practice (GP) registrars play an important role in addressing workforce needs, including equitable health care provision in areas of greater socioeconomic disadvantage. We aimed to characterize GP registrars’ practice location by level of socioeconomic disadvantage, and establish associations (of registrar, practice, patient characteristics, and registrars’ clinical behaviours) with GP registrars training being undertaken in areas of greater socioeconomic disadvantage. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis from the Registrars’ Clinical Encounters in Training (ReCEnT) study. ReCEnT is an ongoing, multi-centre, cohort study that documents 60 consecutive consultations by each GP registrar once in each of their three six-monthly training terms. The outcome factor was the practice location’s level of socioeconomic disadvantage, defined using the Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (SEIFA-IRSD). The odds of being in the lowest quintile was compared to the other four quintiles. Independent variables related to the registrar, patient, practice, and consultation. Results: A total of 1,736 registrars contributed 241,945 consultations. Significant associations of training being in areas of most disadvantage included: the registrar being full-time, being in training term 1, being in the rural training pathway; patients being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or from a non-English-speaking background; and measures of continuity of care. Conclusions: Training in areas of greater social disadvantage, as well as addressing community need, may provide GP registrars with richer learning opportunities.
- Subject
- socioeconomic status; general practice; vocational training; practice location; SDG 4; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1456513
- Identifier
- uon:45234
- Identifier
- ISSN:1472-6920
- Rights
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Language
- eng
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