“I love my job but it’s time to go”
exploring Australian women GP narratives around retirement
Women GP voices have rarely been heard. The dominant female voices in healthcare have tended to be nurses with the dominant medical voices being male. Female GPs practice differently to their male colleagues, so the GP workforces are not interchangeable. A third of women GPs are expected to leave the profession, describing critical threats to their emotional, financial and occupational wellbeing.
This project involves planning an oral history collection. Our team are interviewing women GPs as part of a qualitative research project, but research can only represent a fraction of individual experience. We also want to develop an oral history collection that best represents the community of women GPs at this critical time, to store at the National Library of Australia.
Why did you become a GP?
·What sustained you in the job?
Why did you leave?
·Is there anything that would bring you back?
What does a typical day in general practice look like?
Why did you become a GP? ·What sustained you in the job? Why did you leave? ·Is there anything that would bring you back? What does a typical day in general practice look like?
Our Project
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Our team
Meet Louise, Karen, Michelle, Erin and Megan
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Our research protocol
Read our research protocol and feel free to ask us questions about the study, its aims and its method.
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Consider participating in the study
Read about the study, and the consent processes.
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Consider adding your story to our oral history collection
After our interview, you have the option to add your story to our oral history collection. Right now, there are so many changes in general practice, it seems opportune to capture the stories of women GPs before we lose them from the primary care landscape.