Course description

This course provides a unique opportunity for medical students to understand and experience the rewards, benefits and challenges of clinical practice among 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. Whilst the context might be different, 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 each student's learning experience will be a structured clinical placement where students will work closely with a Preceptor who will guide and support students as they provide health care in context. and continue to develop their general medical skills. The rural and remote course will offer students an opportunity to experience an amalgamation of clinical practice found only in this area of medicine. Students will also gain an appreciation of how access to services and geographical isolation make this a unique field of medicine. This will inherently provide students with the opportunity to further develop a number of different skills including interpersonal skills, history taking, examinations and exposure to a wide variety of procedures.

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