Rural medical workforce pathways: exploring the importance of postgraduation rural training time.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe MABEL study’s collection and usage of data was approved by the University of Melbourne Faculty of Economics and Commerce Human Ethics Advisory Committee (Ref. 0709559). The UQMediCoS study was approved by The University of Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee (Ref. 2018001630 and 2012001171). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Funding for MABEL has been provided by the National Health and Medical Research Council (2007–2016: 454799 and 1019605), the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (2008), Health Workforce Australia (2013), and in 2017 the University of Melbourne, Medibank Better Health Foundation, the New South Wales Ministry of Health and the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services. In 2018 MABEL was funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. The authors were funded as academics under the Rural Health Multi-Disciplinary Training Fund of the Australian Government Department of Health to undertake UQMediCoS."