History

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Rural Clinical School is fully committed to leading the rural education of medical students in Australia. Funded by the Federal Department of Health and Ageing, the School was established in January 2000 in the Greater Murray Region of New South Wales (Greater Murray Clinical School). In February 2001 additional funding by the Federal Government established a Mid North Coast division of the School, which commenced in July 2001.

In 1997, the School of Community Medicine established the Rural Health Unit and the Rural Student Entry Scheme to redress the imbalance that existed in the proportion of urban and rural students in the medicine course at UNSW. In 2005, the Rural Health Unit became part of the Rural Clinical School.