Funding for this research was provided by:
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
Article History
Received: 22 November 2018
Accepted: 8 April 2019
First Online: 28 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional commitments on human experimentation and with Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. This study was approved by the James Cook University Human Research Ethics Committee (Project H7132) and the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (Project 11,026). All participants provided written consent to participate in interviews, which were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Interview transcripts were sent back to each participant for member checking.
: Participants gave consent for using direct quotes in this publication.
: LY, RP, and CR were employed by James Cook University and its affiliate Generalist Medical Education in Queensland. BO’S was employed by Monash University School of Rural Health.
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