Dr Ryan Lui's decision to stay on is part of a trend occurring from Oberon to Broken Hill, according to federally-funded GP Synergy which is the leading provider of vocational GP training in NSW.

It says Sydney-based trainee GPs choosing a "composite urban/rural training pathway" are finding the rural training experience clinically rewarding and country communities welcoming.

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Dr Lui moved to Dubbo to complete a six-month training term at DubboCare Family Practice. GP Synergy says he "liked it so much he requested to stay for another term and is now making the transfer permanent".

"I chose the composite pathway as I was interested in experiencing rural medicine," Dr Lui said.

"With many GP training campaigns featuring rural GPs and with opportunities to practice all aspects of medicine, I was hoping to experience the breadth of rural medicine.

I was delighted during my rural term to find the complexity of medicine that I was seeking."

Dr Lui said he had been fortunate to have Dr George Dawoud and Dr Amal Tadros as his supervisors at DubboCare Family Practice.

"With the friendly community in Dubbo, there is no better place than being a rural community-based GP," he said.

GP Synergy chief executive officer Georgina van de Water says "collectively, and individually we all play an important role" in helping doctors settle in and form personal networks which encourage them to stay in rural communities.

"GP registrars contribute significantly to primary healthcare provision in rural areas like Dubbo," she said.

"Over the many years that we have been training doctors to specialise as GPs, the consistent feedback we receive is that doctors find rural training a rich and rewarding learning environment.

"Receiving a first-class training experience is critical, as is ensuring doctors and their families are well supported and nurtured by their local community."

Mrs Van de Water said GP Synergy had introduced the composite training pathway in 2019 to give city-based doctors the opportunity to be supported in undertaking a training term in a rural area in NSW.

"We've been delighted with the number of doctors choosing to stay in a rural area for a second term or transferring to rural training," she said.

Currently, 132 GP registrars are training on a composite pathway in NSW.

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