Can a 'rural day' make a difference to GP shortage across rural Germany?

GP perceptions of workforce shortage in a rural setting.

INTRODUCTION Currently Australia is experiencing a rural medical workforce shortage, especially among GPs. Strategies aimed at improving this shortage have generally been directed at small and remote rural communities (RRMA 4-7); however, longstanding GP shortages also continue in large (RRMA 3) rural communities. The key to the understanding the rural workforce is the perceptions of GPs themse...

Can training reduce the rural workforce shortage?

Factors influencing family physicians to enter rural practice: does rural or urban background make a difference?

OBJECTIVE To examine where rural physicians grew up, when during their training they became interested in rural medicine, factors influencing their decision to practise rural medicine, and differences in these measures according to rural or urban upbringing. DESIGN Mailed survey. SETTING Rural Canada. PARTICIPANTS Rural family physicians who graduated between 1991 and 2000 from a Canadian...

Rural Allied Health Scholarships: do they make a difference?

INTRODUCTION The problem of recruiting and retaining a qualified rural and remote health workforce is well recognised and a number of strategies have been put in place to address this issue, including the use of bonded scholarship programs. However there is a paucity of evidence regarding the impact of scholarships on workforce outcomes particularly in relation to allied health professionals. T...

Endmarkers can Make a Difference

We show that the nonemptiness problem for two-way automata with only one endmarker over unary alphabets is complete for nondeterministic logarithmic space. This should be contrasted with the corresponding problem for two-way automata with two endmarkers, which is known to be NP-complete.