Table 1 Data sources

Program documents

10

Training program curriculum and learning companion, handbook, log book, Indigenous health training module, Standards for General Practice Manual

Policy documents

33

College position statements covering a range of areas (e.g. core professional issues and values statements, policies on domestic violence, health and the environment, evidence based medicine)

Internal College respondents

37

Program managers within the national office of the RACGP, chairs of national committees of the college, and leaders of state faculties of the college

External college respondents

43

Representatives of ADGP (the peak body of Divisions of GP in Australia)* and GPPAC (at the time the peak advisory body to the Federal Minister for Health), heads of academic Departments of General Practice, University Departments of Rural Health, consumer groups and a national PHC quality assurance program

Focus group participants

11

Urban and rural GP