To visit the RCS website on Longlook or for an application form, click here.
What is the Rural Longlook Program?
It’s an amazing opportunity for 3rd year students. One where you undertake a one year placement and do all five rotations in Warwick, Stanthorpe, Kingaroy or Roma. You’re provided a truly personalised, hands-on education across all the disciplines with great access to resources and support.
Learning:
- Each site has a dedicated medical educator and training registrar and, for 3 weeks of the year, join QRME’s rural registrar program to have your learning extended at a registrar’s pace!
- Small group learning – more doctors than students!
- Specialists to teach onsite, plus block release for targeted teaching
- The program is in collaboration with Griffith so you have access to UQ and Griffith’s resources as well as weekly case based seminars
- Follow your patients through primary and care with greater clinical responsibility
Support:
- A key role of QRME’s is to support their doctors-in-training. They extend their support to you so you have all the academic, professional and pastoral support you need
- Vertically integrated learning means day-in, day-out you’re learning alongside doctors who are just a few steps ahead of you. They know where you’re coming from and what’s important or a little less so.
- The communities are great, but there are times when you’ll want to be back in Bris (Sports Day, May Ball anyone?). (So, TROHPIQ will contribute $800 towards flights for the Roma students and $250 towards petrol for the others)
Lifestyle:
- Live in a vibrant community for the year… you will become part of it and it’s very rewarding
- Accommodation provided. Gratis
- Hassle free lifestyle with zero communte means less time getting from ‘A’ to ‘B’ and more time exploring, chilling or studying!
QRME Partnership
The program is run as a partnership between Queensland Rural Medical Education and the University of Queensland. Further information on this program, on QRME in general and contact details can also be found by clicking here.
How does it work?
Curriculum and assessment: although you study longitudinally (ie. you’re not shunted from one rotation to the next), you study the same curriculum as everybody else. Naturally, you sit the same assessment as everybody else too and do so in the rotation order of Medicine in Society, General Practice, Surgery, Mental Health then Medicine.
This means you do your respective assignments within each block. Exam-wise, you have your most general exams first, giving you extra time to accrue experience as you progress and prepare for your more specialised exams.
Selection: to be selected for the program, you must do two things:
- Fill in a brief application based around questions such as why you want to join the program and what you expect to get out of it. This is due by May 28th.
- Undergo an interview with interviews being held in Brisbane on June 12th
Successful applicants will the ones who demonstrate their interest in and enthusiasm for rural medicine. Students should be self-motivated and flexible.
To visit the RCS website on Longlook or for an application form, click here.
For general, application or interview enquiries, e-mail: ruralmedicine@uq.edu.au
To enquire how the programme works first hand, send an e-mail to Longlook director Ken, or one or all of the participating students Andrew, Kendra and Madelon.
Dr. Ken Barns: ken.barns@gmail.com
Andrew Evans: andrew.j.r.evans@gmail.com
Kendra Hopper: kendra_havok@hotmail.com
Madelon Olds: madelon.olds@uqconnect.edu.au
