Adelaide Rural Clinical School

We facilitate rural and remote clinical placements during MD 4 to 6 of the Doctor of Medicine. You can spend four, eight or thirty-six weeks on placement at a range of locations throughout South Australia and in Broken Hill, New South Wales. We use distance education platforms and technologies to promote both interprofessional learning and a lifelong pattern of learning. We place a strong emphasis on problem solving and clinical reasoning through our placements. On placement, you will participate in the provision of comprehensive care to a wide variety of patients and clients in multidisciplinary environments. This will help to prepare you as a future health professional and leader for the 21st century workforce.

South Australia is a vast and beautiful place to live. It provides numerous outstanding learning environments for you to develop academically, personally and socially. Many of our graduates have returned to practice in our region and other rural areas. Living and working in rural or remote South Australia offers a relaxed lifestyle, greater autonomy, uniquely diverse work, and a great community and supportive network that starts with placement. You will experience the many benefits of rural and remote health care and learn skills that will make you workforce ready.

We facilitate clinical placements at twelve sites, with each focusing on different areas of medicine. Some sites—such as the Barossa Valley, Clare and Mount Barker—are only a short drive from Adelaide city. If you are seeking a change of location, we have multiple teaching sites across South Australia’s Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas—including Kadina, Port Augusta, Whyalla and Port Lincoln, through to Broken Hill in New South Wales.

Adelaide Rural Clinical School has a wide range of rurally-based academics and health professionals who are involved in the administration and delivery of health education. You will also benefit from the dedication and expertise of our extended team of clinical titleholders, who are medical professionals from a wide range of specialist areas.