| Factors influencing the selection of rural practice locations for early career pharmacists in Victoria. | |
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PMID: 22098212 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Objective: To identify factors influencing the choice of practice location for early career pharmacists working and living in Victoria. Design: Survey. Setting: Victorian pharmacies. Participants: Pharmacists living in Victoria in April 2009, who had registered with the Pharmacy Board of Victoria after 1 October 2004, stratified into major city and rural areas. Main outcome measures: Questionnaire responses analysed via descriptive statistics, chi-square and direct logistic regression. Results: Early career pharmacists were more likely to practice in a rural location if they had undertaken a rural internship, had a spouse or partner with a non-metropolitan background and were not practicing in a hospital pharmacy. Pharmacists who had lived in a rural area during their childhood and had studied pharmacy at a rural university were four times more likely to have undertaken a rural internship than those that studied at a major city university. Conclusions: The strongest indicator for future practice location was a pharmacist's internship location. Childhood location and pharmacy education location were indicators of internship location. Pharmacists with a rural childhood location, especially those who study at rural universities, are more likely to work in rural areas. |
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Cristen A Fleming; M Joy Spark |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Australian journal of rural health Volume: 19 ISSN: 1440-1584 ISO Abbreviation: Aust J Rural Health Publication Date: 2011 Dec |
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Created Date: 2011-11-21 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9305903 Medline TA: Aust J Rural Health Country: Australia |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 290-7 Citation Subset: N |
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© 2011 The Authors. Australian Journal of Rural Health © National Rural Health Alliance Inc. |
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School of Pharmacy and Applied Science, La Trobe University Bendigo, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. |
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