Table 4.

Stakeholder feedback about the Checklist, following field-testing.

The Checklist and self- assessment tool really helped me with my issue of developing online medical education

I identified lack of recognition as an issue for doing the training

It is adaptable to recruitment and retention in any population or health worker group

I was initially concerned but it relates significantly to me

It is exactly the type of tool I am looking for

I identified weaknesses in the project I am working on

It is possibly a resource for measuring outcomes of rural based training

I realize we need to decentralize care. It helped me map the new interventions we need.

I can take it to a group or practice community involved in developing a rural pathway to help them plan together and get a common agreement

Nothing helped me as closely to work out what we had to do than the Checklist

It could help us to appraise our new national training system

I knew the problem already but I realized I have not addressed all the issues so this helped me work out how effective the program is

It could be good to facilitate brainstorming and illuminate on the gaps because each part of the rural pathway is so complex, and some of them we know more than others

… could be used to check-in regularly with others involved in implementation, our perceptions may differ My answers about our progress would possibly be different to policy-makers

We get so many initiatives from top down and we get caught in expectations of being accountable to funding bodies that we forget to be accountable to the community. This tool reminded me about that.

This has application in building workforce capacity for primary care innovation, which will help us to keep people out of hospitals…tools like this can drive community prevention as well

It could help to bring entities together to find a common purpose

…It makes things explicit, brings them up for discussion.

…We are glad the Checklist fits the whole workforce and any problem… not just country level stuff but also local situations.

…helped me see the gaps. We may identify cost-neutral strategies from some of the prompts.