What does 'rural return' mean? Rural-origin medical graduates do not 'go home'.

All students entering Medicine at the University of Western Australia through the rural recruitment program (RRP) from 1993 to 2006 – so that all graduates were at least postgraduate year (PGY)3 at the time of this study – and for whom town of origin information was available were included under Human Research Ethics Committee approval RA/4/1/6491. A prior study showed that from 2002 to 2006, with the implementation of a specific rural recruitment program, the percentage of rural entrants in the medical program increased from a baseline of 12% to 23%.