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Contents

• Title Page
• Executive summary
• Recommendations for Rural Practice and Rural Health
• 1. Preparation for rural practice
• 2. The development, maintenance and enhancement of the skills of rural doctors
• 3. Recruitment and retention of doctors in rural practice
• 4. Meeting community needs
• 5. A framework for rural health care
• Introduction
• Principles of rural health care
• The strategic framework for better rural health care
• 1. Preparation for rural practice
• 1.1 Strategies for increasing student interest in rural practice
• 1.2 Strategies for making undergraduate learning more rurally orientated
• 1.3 Strategies to integrate undergraduate education more effectively
• 2. The development, maintenance and enhancement of the skills of rural doctors
• 2.1 Strategies to increase skills through rural vocational training
• 2.2 Strategies for continuing medical education
• 3. Recruitment and retention of doctors in rural practice
• 3.1 Strategies to enhance financial incentives
• 3.2 Strategies for sustainable work practices
• 3.3 Strategies for dealing with the international mobility of rural doctors
• 3.4 Strategies for structuring a career path in rural practice
• 3.5 Strategies to support the families of rural doctors
• 4. Meeting community needs
• 4.1 Strategies to achieve balanced gender mix
• 4.2 Strategies to provide appropriate practice and skills mix
• 4.3 Strategies to improve a team approach
• 4.4 Strategies to ensure the appropriate implementation of information technology
• 4.5 Strategies to encourage healthy community values
• 5. A framework for rural health care
• 5.1 Strategies to establish rural health administrative structures
• 5.2 Strategies for the allocation of financial resources
• 5.3 Strategies to increase rural health research
• 5.4 Strategies to enhance development of rural doctor issues
• 5.5 Strategies to enhance representation of rural doctor issues
• 6. Future