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