A Country Practice

MEETING at Tosca Browns Café this week to discuss cardiovascular cases were (from left) first year students Danielle Przibilla and Chris Ueda, third year student Josh Eaton, Deakin University’s Rural Community Clinical School deputy director, Dr Mark Johnson, third year student Tori Dopheide, and first year students Elisha Johns and Sulaiman Haider. The group then toured the Hamilton Base Hospital as part of the three-day Rural Immersion Program for first year medical studies through Deakin University. Photo: GLENN GUY.

By Lizzie Hallam

July 16, 2022 | 2:00 PM

FOUR first-year Deakin University trainee doctors from the first intake of Deakin’s Rural Training Stream spent three days in Hamilton this week under a program designed to address the shortage of doctors living and working in rural and regional areas.

The Rural Immersion Program provides the opportunity for around 100 first year Deakin University medical students to head out to rural and regional clinical training sites over the next few weeks to learn more about life as a country doctor, while also building community connections in Victoria’s south-west.