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AP PHOTOS: A rural doctor traverses mountainous terrain by donkey to visit far-flung patients

A rural doctor travels miles of unforgiving terrain by donkey, enduring cold, rain, wind and exhaustion, to visit several dozen families sca

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First-year Deakin medical students creating community connections

This past July, nearly 100 first-year Deakin University medical students were sent out to rural and regional clinical training sites to learn more about what life is like as a country doctor.

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What makes JCU Medicine stand out from other medical schools?

The making of JCU Medicine

What is it that makes a medical school unique, and how do medical schools address the most pressing healthcare issues?

This is a loaded question, but one that James Cook University has taken to heart. Just over 20 years ago, JCU set out to establish a medical school in northern Queensland that would not only train students to become professional healthcare providers, but also to create a system of learning that would inspire generations of doctors to serve the areas that are most needed.

How it all began JCU had their first intake in 2000 with 600 applications for 60 spots, and created a revolution in northern Queensland higher education. Medical schools bring along with them a great deal of knowledge and content, and JCU was no exception. Research emerged in many areas given the people, and areas of interest, that came along with the medical program.

The creation of the JCU medicine curriculum was spearheaded by a committee called the Integrated Working Party, led by Professor Ian Wronski. This committee began with the end goal of what they wanted to produce and worked backwards from there to create the curriculum. A six-year curriculum was established based on the determination that this was the required amount of time to deliver the training and clinical experience that would prepare graduates to work in underserved populations.

The focus of JCU’s medical program began as, and continues to be, delivering care where it is most needed.

In Australia, like Canada, this often happens to be in rural and remote areas and within Indigenous populations. A great deal of time behind the scenes at JCU is devoted to maintaining a genuine understanding of local healthcare needs in order to establish effective regional career and public health training options. This involves assuring strong training quality for students, developing new posts, and securing funding and partnerships.

As stated by the World Health Organization, “critical to ensuring equitable deployment of health workers are selection of trainees from, and delivery of training in, rural and underserved areas.”

The JCU Medicine program continues to work in accordance with this statement and as a result, is contributing to incredible developments in rural and underserved areas. How are they doing this? Let’s take a look!

The JCU Rural Experience JCU attracts undergraduate students from rural, regional, and remote areas, or those who have an interest in working in these regions. Students undertake many clinical placements in regional, rural and remote Australia and benefit from a wide breadth of experience where they develop a strong level of clinical skills. It is these experiences that ensure they are well equipped when they graduate to work in these communities and beyond.

GP Training JCU is Australia’s only university to offer specialist General Practice training and delivers it across 90% of Queensland, serving 1.6 million people. JCU’s GP training has a unique model which enables GP registrars to live, learn and work in rural, regional and remote communities. The program has achieved remarkable results since it started in 2016, producing more than 400 GPs, of which 79% have remained working in JCU’s GP training region, and 66% have gone on to practice in regional, rural and remote Australia.

In support of JCU’s commitment to closing the gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, JCU’s GP training has a number of training posts in numerous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services across the state, where cultural educators and mentors provide additional learning support to the GP registrars.

Research Making a Difference A key focus of JCU’s research is applied and translational research with impact across health and health services in tropical, Indigenous, rural and underserved communities.

JCU’s research emphasizes working in-with-and-for communities across northern Australia and the wider tropics. JCU seeks to translate knowledge, strengthen health systems, and address health issues that affect the region.

Research covers a diverse range of topics that effect regional, rural, remote and tropical communities including peripheral vascular disease, endocrinology and diabetes, trauma care, health systems strengthening, and Indigenous health.

JCU has accomplished many “firsts” within the medical training field and has become known as an incredibly unique place to study and learn. Professor Wronski recently reflected on the history of JCU’s medical school while celebrating its twentieth anniversary and said, “Twenty years on, it still gives me great pleasure to see our graduates out in the world doing what we intended them to do—making a difference in regional, rural and remote, and underserved communities, both in Australia and internationally.

“Our success, fundamentally, is the quality of the people.”

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What do you think of doctors moving to rural areas for employment ( due to the lack of doctors in many rural areas ) and then enjoying a cottagecore lifestyle while not working?

not sure when you’d have the time to do anything but work honestly, especially not arduous tasks like gardening or chicken-keeping.

rural doctors usually end up needing to run their own practice. that is a shit ton of work! turnover rate for rural doctors is really high, because you are never *really* off the clock.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/21/725118232/the-struggle-to-hire-and-keep-doctors-in-rural-areas-means-patients-go-without-c

does that sound relaxing or enjoyable to you?

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James Cook University answers the call for rural doctors

James Cook University is answering the call for more doctors in regional, rural and remote Queensland.

This year, the university is training 593 GP registrars through the provision of its specialist training program, Generalist Medical Training (GMT).  This program has been contracted by the Australian Government Department of Health to deliver Australian General Practice training (AGPT) in North Western Queensland.

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James Cook University trains specialist doctors for regional and remote communities

James Cook University’s ability to train and keep GPs and medical specialists in regional and remote settings has been given a big boost.

As part of the Federal Government’s Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training program $54.4 million has been allocated over 2016–2017 to 2018–19 for new Regional Training Hubs and University Departments of Rural Health.

JCU will operate three of the new Regional Training Hubs—in North, Western and Far North Queensland.

Professor Richard Murray, Dean of JCU’s College of Medicine and Dentistry, said the investment will allow JCU to be more involved in training the specialist doctors that regional and remote communities need.

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UQ will lead the establishment of a University Department of Rural Health (Photo credit: UQ)

UQ to provide major boost to regional health

Regional communities and future health professionals studying through The University of Queensland are big winners from a multi-pronged $54.4 million Federal Government initiative.

In Queensland, UQ will lead the establishment of a University Department of Rural Health (UDRH), providing a major boost to education, training and research in rural south Queensland for nurses, midwives and allied health workers.

Three new medical training hubs under UQ control will also be established in Central Queensland, Wide Bay and South West Queensland, operating with an aim of retaining doctors in regional areas.

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Wicklow patients urged to nominate local GPs for award

Wicklow patients urged to nominate local GPs for award

Dr Pixie McKenna joined Dr Shane McKeogh and Dr Darach Ó Ciardha to launch the inaugural GPBuddy Awards in Dublin. Pic: Conor McCabe Photography The first national GP Awards will be closing for nominations next week and organisers, GPBuddy.ie, are asking Wicklow patients to nominate their GPs for a Patients’ Choice Award. The Awards will be announced by celebrity TV doctor, Pixie McKenna at a…

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