MD8004:03
Personal and Professional Challenges in Rural Practice
| External | HECS Band 3 |
Semester 1 or 2.
Available to students enrolled in Master of Rural and Remote Medicine program ndash; medical practitioners ideally currently in rural practice.
Staff: Professor R Hays.
Rural and remote medical practice poses several challenging and interesting challenges that influence the enjoyment of the professional lifestyle. These have been demonstrated to exert a powerful influence on the decisions of individual rural doctors either to leave rural practice or remain there. This subject presents and discusses a range of personal and professional challenges that may arise and helps rural practitioners to avoid, prepare for and manage potential problems. Students will apply these in a critical incident analysis of personal and professional challenges they have encountered or observed within their own practice and community.
Assessment by literature review (33%); two incident analyses (67%) (33% each).
Learning Objectives:
- to improve understanding of the personal and professional implications of a career in rural or remote medical practice;
- to increase the capacity of rural practitioners to avoid, prepare for and manage personal and professional challenges;
- to improve the likelihood that rural practitioners will be able to stay longer in rural or remote practice.