Mission

The mission of the Rural Clinical School is to educate students to become doctors who will choose to practise in rural Australia.

It does this by:

• conducting the undergraduate clinical medical program for long-stay students placed in campuses located in rural areas
• providing short term rural placements for all other medical students not in long-stay placements
• recruiting and supporting medical students from rural and remote locations
• recruiting and supporting medical students from Indigenous communities
• promoting the practice of medicine in rural Australia
• undertaking research into rurall health and rural medical education