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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 - 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.

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.

Assessment by literature review (33%); two incident analyses (67%) (33% each).