REVIEW article
Front. Med.
Sec. Healthcare Professions Education
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1546701
This article is part of the Research TopicDistributed Training and Rural Health Professions EducationView all 10 articles
Place-based rural health professional pre-registration education programs: a scoping review
Provisionally accepted
- 1School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
- 2Rural Community Clinical School, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Colac, Australia
- 3Rural Clinical School, The University of Queensland, Rockhampton, Australia
- 4Deakin Rural Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Warrnambool, Australia
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With an increasing focus on social accountability in program design in response to a shortage of rural healthcare professionals, emerging approaches in pre-registration health professional education (HPE) offer 'place-based' solutions. This review assesses the adoption of these approaches by the international HPE community and describes how programs are designed to recruit and train students 'in place'.Utilising a global scoping review, a search strategy of relevant HPE databases was developed based on the review's eligibility criteria and key search terms. Titles and abstracts of all articles were screened against the review's inclusion criteria, followed by full text review of articles retained. Reporting followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist.
Keywords: Place-based, Social accountability, rural community based medical education, Health Professional Education, Rural workforce development, Program design, Scoping review
Received: 17 Dec 2024; Accepted: 04 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Fuller, Beattie, McGrail, Versace and Rogers. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Lara Fuller, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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