Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

If you are interested in rural medicine as a career, and have choosen options that reflect your interest, you can have your choices indicated as a specialisation in your academic transcript.

The MBBS specialisation is available to any student who follows the unit rules described here.

Rural and Remote Medicine

To select a specialisation in Rural and Remote Medicine, you will need to meet with

• Assoc/Prof Denese Playford, Course Coordinator, and
• Jan Dunphy, Manager Student Affairs.

Aboriginal Health

To select a specialisation in Aboriginal Health, you will need to meet with

• Dr David Paul, Course Coordinator, and
• Jan Dunphy, Manager Student Affairs.

In addition to planning your units, meeting with the unit coordinators will also ensure that we identify you at the end of each year and put the appropriate description into your transcript.

Unit Rules (2008 Undergraduate Handbook)

Specialisations and Variations

Students intending to pursue a specialisation or variation must meet with the Manager (Student Affairs) and the course coordinator for the relevant specialisation to develop an approved study plan, including clinical placement details.

8.2.2.4 A

1. Students may, if they so elect, pursue a specialisation or a variation within the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery course (90110).
2. The specialisations available are

   (a) Rural and Remote Medicine and (b) Aboriginal Health.

3. The variation available is Rural Clinical Practice.
   

Pathways

The units pathways from first to sixth year, for a Rural and Remote Medicine and/or Aboriginal Health specilisation are outlined in these documents: