Mission

The aim of the Rural Clinical School is to provide diversified educational offerings in rural health and medical practice. The belief is that the School will play an important role in assisting to deal with the recruitment and retention of medical practitioners to work in rural and remote areas of Australia. The Rural Clinical School complements the rural commitment of UNSW which admits 25% of its first year local student intake from rural origin.

The establishment of the Rural Health Unit (now the Sydney Campus of the UNSW Rural Clinical School) in 1997 and the Rural Student Entry Scheme, with 50 students selected into the first year intake for 2007, are two other examples of the commitment to rural programmes at UNSW. The aim of the Rural Clinical School is clear. It is to provide education in rural health and medical practice and in so doing, playing an important role in helping to deal with the recruitment and retention of medical practitioners to work in rural and remote areas of Australia.