Overseas-trained doctors in Australia: Community integration and their intention to stay in a rural community

Australian Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 236-241

  Han, Gil Soo ^a   Humphreys, John S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community integration; International medical graduates; Life history methodology; Overseas trained doctors; Rural; Workforce retention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIGION; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VICTORIA;

EID: 23744443770     PISSN: 10385282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2005.00708.x     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Pathman DE, Konrad TR, Ricketts TC III. The National Health Service Corps experience for rural physicians in the late 1980s. Journal of the American Medical Association 1994; 272: 1341-1348.
2. Humphreys JS, Jones J, Jones M, Hugo G, Bamford E, Taylor D. A critical review of rural medical workforce retention in Australia. Australian Health Review 2001; 24: 91-102.
3. Birrell B, Hawthorne L. Medicare Plus and overseas-trained medical doctors. People and Place 2004; 12: 84-100.
4. Saunders EA. Resettlement experiences of Russian Jewish immigrants in Vancouver, Canada, between 1975 and 1982. International Migration 1985; 23: 369-380.
5. Humphreys JS, Jones MP, Jones JA, Mara PR. Workforce retention in rural and remote Australia: determining the factors that influence length of practice. Medical Journal of Australia 2002; 176: 472-476.
6. Guest AM, Stamm KR. Paths of community integration. Sociological Quarterly 1993; 34: 581-595.
7. Solinger DJ. The floating population in the cities: chances for assimilation? In: Davis DS, Kraus R, Naughton B, Perry EJ, eds. Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: the Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995; pp. 113-139.
8. Rieger JH, Beegle JA. The integration of rural migrants in new settings. Rural Sociology 1974; 39: 42-55.
9. Huerta Wilpert C. Aspirations, Expectations, and Perceptions of Opportunity of Turkish and Yugoslav Migrant Youth in the Federal Republic of Germany. Association Paper. International Sociological Association, 1982.
10. Wenger GC. Ageing in rural communities: family contacts and community integration. Ageing and Society 1982; 2: 211-229.
11. Stanley K. Immigrant and refugee workers in the midwestern meatpacking industry: industrial restructuring and the transformation of rural labor markets. Policy Studies Review 1992; 11: 106-117.
12. Simard M. The regionalization of immigration: immigrant agricultural entrepreneurs in rural Quebec society. Recherches Sociographiques 1995; 36: 214-242. (French.)
13. Simard M. Immigrant and non-immigrant general practitioners in rural and remote regions of Quebec: a consideration of attraction and retention factors. In: MacLeod M, Dosman JA, eds. Third National Conference Health Research in Rural and Remote Canada: Meeting Challenges, Creating Opportunities; 24-26 Oct 2002, Halifax. Halifax: Canadian Rural Health Research Society, 2002; 83.
14. Hawthorne L, Birrell B, Young D. The Retention of Overseas Trained Doctors in General Practice in Regional Victoria. Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2003.
15. Basok T. Occupational experiences of Soviet immigrant physicians in Canada. In: Shuval JT, Bernstein JH, eds. Immigrant Physicians: Former Soviet Doctors in Israel, Canada, and the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997; 93-115.
16. Hubbard G. The usefulness of indepth life history interviews for exploring the role of social structure and human agency in youth transitions. Sociological Research Online 2000; 4 (4). Available from URL: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/index.html
17. Strauss AL, Corbin J. Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990.
18. Birrell RJ. Australian policy on overseas-trained doctors. Medical Journal of Australia 2004; 181: 635-639.
19. Rural Workforce Agency Victoria. Orientation Manual for Overseas Trained Doctors Working in Rural General Practice in Victoria. 20 October 2000. Melbourne: Rural Workforce Agency Victoria, 2003.
20. Srivastava R, Green DJ. What's in a name? Medical Journal of Australia 2004; 181: 643-644.
21. Rural Doctors Association of Australia and Monash University School of Rural Health. Viable Models of Rural and Remote Practice Stage 1 and Stage 2 Reports. Canberra: RDAA, 2003.
22. Baer LD. Doctors in a Strange Land: The Place of International Medical Graduates in Rural America. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003.
23. McGrath BP. Integration of overseas-trained doctors into the Australian medical workforce, Medical Journal of Australia 2004; 181: 640-642.
24. Van Der Weyden MB, Chew M. Arriving in Australia: overseas-trained doctors. Medical Journal of Australia 2004; 181: 633-634.