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Data sources |
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| Data source |
No. |
Descriptor/examples |
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| Program documents |
10 |
Training program curriculum and learning companion, handbook, log book, Indigenous health training module, Standards for General Practice Manual |
| Policy documents |
33 |
College position statements covering a range of areas (e.g. core professional issues and values statements, policies on domestic violence, health and the environment, evidence based medicine) |
| Internal College respondents |
37 |
Program managers within the national office of the RACGP, chairs of national committees of the college, and leaders of state faculties of the college |
| External college respondents |
43 |
Representatives of ADGP (the peak body of Divisions of GP in Australia)* and GPPAC (at the time the peak advisory body to the Federal Minister for Health), heads of academic Departments of General Practice, University Departments of Rural Health, consumer groups and a national PHC quality assurance program |
| Focus group participants |
11 |
Urban and rural GP |
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*Divisions of General Practice are geographic organizations of GPs established in 1992 by the Government. They are local organizations that unite GPs and increase their capacity to work co-operatively with each other and other health providers. | ||
Furler et al. BMC Medicine 2007 5:23 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-5-23 |
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