Australia's Remote Vocational Training Scheme: training and supporting general practitioners in rural, remote and First Nations communities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Perspective Australia's Remote Vocational Training Scheme: training and supporting general practitioners in rural, remote and First Nations communities T he Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS) is an independent rural general practice workforce and training program fully funded by the Department of Health and Aged Care since 2000.It is operationally delivered by the Remote Vocational Training Scheme Ltd (a national training provider).This perspective article describes the RVTS and its development over time to lay the foundations for this supplement on Growing and sustaining doctors in rural, remote and First Nations communities, which shows the outcomes of the RVTS program.The RVTS supports the delivery of vocational general practice and rural generalist training for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and/or the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM).In doing so, the RVTS regularly liaises with both general practice colleges to manage accreditation, training requirements, and examinations among other issues.However, the RVTS has a nuanced focus compared with other rural general practice vocational training pathways (Box 1).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".