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Personal profile
Biography
Matthew is a full-time Senior Research Fellow of the School of Rural Health, based at Churchill campus, and he leads the workforce research collaboration within MRH. He is a nationally recognised research leader in the field of rural health, particularly in rural medical workforce supply and distribution and health services policy, and development of methodologies relating measures of access to health care (for which he completed his PhD in 2008).
He is a Chief Investigator of the NHMRC-funded Centre for Research Excellence in Medical Workforce Dynamics, which conducts the MABEL study (Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life), where he leads the Rural workforce supply, distribution and mobility research theme. He was also Chief Investigator of the recently completed Centre of Research Excellence in Rural and Remote Primary Health Care program, where he led research of improved measures of healthcare access, notably producing the national Index of Access.
Matthew was a co-developer, with Emeritus Prof John Humphreys, of the Modified Monash Model which was adopted in 2015 by the federal Department of Health to underpin many of their rural health workforce incentives and policies.
Research interests
- Rural Health Workforce
- Access to health care
- Health Services Research
- GIS methodologies in health
- Health workforce policy / incentives
- Advanced quantitative methodologies
Network
Projects
- 9 Finished
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Supervising GP Registrars - who does and doesn't participate and why?
Warrington, A., Bentley, M., Wallace, G., O'Sullivan, B., McGrail, M., Russell, D., Burns, J. & Sampson, M.
17/08/17 → 17/08/18
Project: Research
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Retention of Victorian rural GPs
Russell, D., McGrail, M., O'Sullivan, B., Campbell, D. & Chisholm, M.
1/08/17 → 31/05/18
Project: Research
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A mixed methods study identifying underserved communities where GP registrar training could be better targeted in north-western Queensland and strategies to increase high quality GP registrar supervision and training in these locations
McGrail, M., Russell, D., O'Sullivan, B., Campbell, D., Teague, P., Reeve, C., Sen Gupta, T., Young, L., Hays, R. & Malau-Aduli, B. S.
1/08/17 → 31/07/18
Project: Research
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Gippsland Survivorship Program: Improving care coordination, service delivery and health outcomes for people with cancer and carers
Iddawela, M., Ristevski, E., Joshi, S., Kuyumcian, A., Wright, T., Jayasuriya, N., Wood, E., Wood, M., Roscoe, D., Hamilton, V., Shearer, M., Proposch, A., Bogart, M., De Gooyer, S. & McGrail, M.
1/10/16 → 1/10/19
Project: Research
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Understanding the decision to relocate rural amongst urban nursing and allied health students and recent graduates
Sutton, K., Brown, L., Carey, T., Farthing, A., Maybery, D., McAnnally, K., McGrail, M., Russell, D., Smith, T. & Waller, S.
14/02/16 → 17/06/16
Project: Research
Research Output
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An exploration of the experiences of GP registrar supervisors in small rural communities: A qualitative study
Couch, D., O'Sullivan, B., Russell, D., McGrail, M., Wallace, G. & Bentley, M., 5 Sep 2020, In : BMC Health Services Research. 20, 1, 8 p., 834.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Are hospital registrars growing more satisfied with their jobs?
Lennon, M., McGrail, M. R., O'Sullivan, B., Suttie, J. & Preddy, J., 1 Jan 2020, In : Internal Medicine Journal. 50, 1, p. 132-133 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review
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Exploring preference for, and uptake of, rural medical internships, a key issue for supporting rural training pathways
McGrail, M. R., O'Sullivan, B. G., Russell, D. J. & Rahman, M., 8 Oct 2020, In : BMC Health Services Research. 20, 1, 11 p., 930.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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‘It’s so rich, you know, what they could be experiencing’: rural places for general practitioner learning
Couch, D., O’Sullivan, B., Russell, D. & McGrail, M., 2 Jan 2020, In : Health Sociology Review. 29, 1, p. 76-91 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Attracting junior doctors to rural centres: A national study of work-life conditions and satisfaction
Lennon, M., O’Sullivan, B., McGrail, M., Russell, D., Suttie, J. & Preddy, J., Dec 2019, In : The Australian Journal of Rural Health. 27, 6, p. 482-488 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Press / Media
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The medical workforce in Australia
Belinda O'Sullivan, Matthew Richard McGrail & Deborah Russell
8/05/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment