Table 1.

Demographics of interviewed general practitioners (GPs)

Demographic	N=20	Sub demographic
Sex	11 9	Women Men
Experience	2 2 4 4 4 4	GP registrars (trainees) GPs with 1–5 years of experience as a fellow GPs with 6–10 years of experience as a fellow GPs with 11–20 years of experience as a fellow GPs with 21–30 years of experience as a fellow GPs with 31–40 years of experience as a fellow
Current location	15 3 1 1	NSW (11 metropolitan, 4 regional) VIC (2 metropolitan, 1 rural) QLD (metropolitan) SA (metropolitan)
Previous location AUS	9	GPs had previously worked in Australian locations that included regional, rural, and remote settings across different states (NSW, QLD, VIC, SA, WA, NT)
Previous location overseas	10	GPs trained and/or worked overseas (including the UK, New Zealand, the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and Africa)
Special interests	18	GPs had special interests including one or several of the following: rural medicine, aboriginal health, mental health, women’s health, parental care, paediatrics, skin, eye health, sports medicine, veteran’s health, prison health
Other professional roles	10	GPs held other professional roles, sometimes including several of the following: academic (research and education), GP training, corporate and management, policy, medico legal, RACGP, ACRRM, practice accreditation, Australian defence force
Work arrangement	2 3 15	GP registrars were salaried GPs currently were partners/principals in a practice, and several more had been practice-owners at some point during their career GPs provided clinical work as contractors, or have mixed arrangements depending on their roles
Billing	4 1 4 2 9	Practices bulk billed only Practice billed privately only Practices had mixed billing Practices had other mixed means of funding (ie, government grants) Interviewees did not discuss practice billing structure

ACRRM, Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine; AUS, Australia; bulk billing, Medicare rebates cover practitioner charges (no out of pocket fees for patients); NSW, New South Wales; NT, Northern Territory; QLD, Queensland; RACGP, Royal Australian College of General Practice; SA, South Australia; VIC, Victoria; WA, Western Australia.