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Course description

This course provides a unique opportunity for you to understand and experience the rewards, benefits and challenges of clinical practice among rural population groups and/or in communities that face access and equity challenges associated with health service delivery. Such challenges can be attributed to contextual factors such as geographical isolation, ethnicity, disability, socioeconomic status and/or life circumstance. Clinical practice within such a contextual framework requires distinctively generalist knowledge, skills and attitudes. Across a range of rural contexts, clinical practice is governed by a number of common parameters such as isolation, professional challenges, holistic patient care and team based case management. At the core of your learning experience will be a structured clinical placement where you will work closely with a Preceptor who will guide and support you as you provide health care in rural contexts and continue to develop your general medical skills. The Rural and Remote Medicine course will offer you an opportunity to experience an amalgamation of clinical practice found only in this area of medicine. You will also gain an appreciation of how access to services and geographical isolation make this a unique field of medicine. This will inherently provide you with the opportunity to further develop a number of different skills including interpersonal skills, history taking and examinations and exposure to a wide variety of procedures.

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