Eley’s article in Rural Remote Health strives to obtain demographic, temperament and character trait profiles information about those individuals choosing rural practice inform ways to enhance future recruitment and training into rural medicine. The study indicates registrars training via the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine pathway were more likely to be male, older, have a definite interest in or already practicing in a rural area and were significantly (with moderate effect sizes) lower in levels of harm avoidance and higher in persistence, self-directedness and resilience compared to the other training pathways. Furthermore, the aforementioned combination of trait levels correlates strongly with high levels of resilience.