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The rural communities placement program
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Miles, A, The rural communities placement program, International Journal of Child Health and Human Development, 4, (1) pp. 115-122. ISSN 1939-5965 (2011) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Learning medicine in rural contexts is widely considered to
be a positive strategy for the longer term recruitment of
doctors to rural practice. The Rural Communities Program
(RCP) is a week-long placement of a small group of
students in a small rural community that is serviced by a
Community Health Centre, resident General Practitioner
(GP) or visiting GP. The primary goal of the RCP was to
provide a small group of medical students with a residential
experience in a rural town to gain an understanding of the
health care landscape of the community, the networks of
care available to members of rural communities, and how
they impact upon the lives of people with a range of acute
and chronic conditions in those communities. Evaluation
revealed that the specific rural health learning outcomes
had been achieved by the majority of students and that
community health professionals also learned more about
their community through engagement with the RCP.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Curriculum and pedagogy |
| Research Field: | Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Teaching and curriculum |
| Objective Field: | Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum |
| UTAS Author: | Miles, A (Ms Alison Miles) |
| ID Code: | 75047 |
| Year Published: | 2011 |
| Deposited By: | Medicine |
| Deposited On: | 2012-01-04 |
| Last Modified: | 2012-07-17 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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