General practitioners | Other medical specialists | ||||||
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Period entered medical workforce | Category | Metropolitan (%) | Large regional or rural (> 15 000 population) (%) | Small rural and remote (< 15 000 population) (%) | Metropolitan | Large regional (> 50 000 population) (%) | Small regional or remote (< 50 000 population) (%) |
1970s | Locally trained | 84.2 | 87.6 | 83.6 | 86.8 | 82.7 | 88.6 |
OTD | 15.8 | 12.4 | 16.4 | 13.2 | 17.3 | 11.4 | |
1980s | Locally trained | 84.3 | 81.4 | 82.1 | 86.2 | 82.6 | 79.7 |
OTD | 15.7 | 18.6 | 17.9 | 13.8 | 17.4 | 20.3 | |
1990–1994 | Locally trained | 72.3 | 60.9 | 68.1 | 80.7 | 71.2 | 68.5 |
OTD | 27.7 | 39.1 | 31.9 | 19.3 | 28.8 | 31.5 | |
1995–1999 | Locally trained | 79.4 | 63.1 | 52.9 | 73.6 | 67.3 | 62.6 |
OTD | 20.6 | 36.9 | 47.1 | 26.4 | 32.7 | 37.4 | |
2000–2004 | Locally trained | 72.3 | 50.6 | 52.0 | 74.7 | 51.2 | 44.0 |
OTD | 27.7 | 49.4 | 48.0 | 25.3 | 48.8 | 56.0 | |
2005–2009 | Locally trained | 54.4 | 41.0 | 33.3 | 66.5 | 40.1 | 34.1 |
OTD | 45.6 | 59. | 66.7 | 33.5 | 59.9 | 65.9 |