Trainees may view themselves as transient care providers [ 17].
Many GPs provide continuity of care while some display transient care.
Our first null hypothesis was that similar proportions of GPs display continuity and transient care over time.
Many GPs (39%) were reported to provide continuity of care for in the ACT region and some GPs (20%) displayed transient care.
A ' GP displayed transient care' was defined as a GP who was not named in a current year but was named in subsequent years.
However, care provision and decision making in relation to EoL care for care home residents is often complicated by the multiple, sometimes transient care staff, professionals, and resident representatives involved [ 11].
Furthermore, more GPs displayed transient care if parented nominated them as working in large practices compared to small practices (mean 3.3 versus 2.1 GPs per practice, t-value = -3.81, df = 132 p < 0.001).
A total of 64 GPs (15%) displayed transient care and fewer parents nominated them as their child's GP compared to GPs who displayed continuity (mean 3.5 versus 11.3 children per GP, t-value = 11.71, df = 2312, p < 0.001).
Due to the nature of training with constant shift of rotations, institutions, and lack of long-term follow-up with patients, these attitudes often stem from residents viewing themselves as transient care providers [ 38].
We rejected our first hypothesis to find a greater proportion of GPs displayed continuity of provider care, rather than transient care, but that only 39% of GPs appeared to have been present in the ACT for the full eight years of the study.
