Mrs Suzanne Bain-Donohue
Research interests
Rural Health
Indigenous Health and Wellbeing
Rural GP Workforce
Medical Education
Biography
Suzanne has a background in community development, working in both the private and public domains. She has extensive experience as the executive director of a national disability organisation and, during this time, sat on numerous national and state committees where her input to research on social participation was integral in delivering key reports. In 2016, she completed qualitative research on students’ lived experiences with dyslexia in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) education system. Suzanne currently is based in the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology in the the Indigenous Health Unit. Previous to this she worked in the College of Health and Medicine as the Manager of HealthANSWERS, a translational research partnership covering the ACT and south-east New South Wales, and as a research officer at the ANU Medical School’s Rural Clinical School with research projects that included rural recruitment and retention, intern experiences in rural locations, GP-VMOs in rural locations and medical education.
Researcher's projects
- Influence of rural clinical school experience and rural origin on practising in rural communities: Graduate tracking and fields of practise.
- Evaluation of RJDTIF Cowra Program and Impact on the Training Environment.
- Developing interconnectedness is critical in retaining rural general practitioners: a qualitative thematic analysis of recently recruited general practitioners to South East New South Wales, Australia.
- How the training pathways and capacity of rural physicians inform their scope of practice: a qualitative study examining the experiences of Australian and International Medical Graduates in South-East New South Wales, Australia.
Current student projects
2023-2024
Catie Snellgrove: TBD
2022-2023
Grace Harvey: Impact of extreme heat on elderly health in rural Australia
Past student projects
2022-2023
Grace Harvey: Impact of extreme heat on elderly health in rural Australia
2020-2021
Olivia Dill: The Social Determinants and COVID-19 Severity: A Systematic Review of Epidemiological Studies
2019-2020
Molly Barry: What is the correlation between the quality of clinical handover and its accuracy?
2018-2019
Gizelle Cano: When and why did ANUMS rural stream graduates change their intention to practice rurally?
PatricK Holloway: Why do doctors work in rural areas in high-income countries: a qualitative systematic review
Publications
- Cano, G, Bain-Donohue, S & Moore, M 2021, 'Why do some medical graduates lose their intention to practise rurally?', Rural and Remote Health, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 5747.
- Sutarsa, I, Kasim, R, Slimings, C et al. 2021, 'Effects of employing primary care doctors in hospital to improve the quality of care and health outcomes of rural patients: A systematic scoping review', Australian Journal of Rural Health, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 492-501.
- Holloway, P, Bain-Donohue, S & Moore, M 2020, 'Why do doctors work in rural areas in high-income countries? A qualitative systematic review of recruitment and retention', Australian Journal of Rural Health, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 543-554.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- An evaluation of the impact of the role of rural GP VMOs on quality of care (Secondary Investigator)
