Gippsland Year 4B student Sarah Simon enjoyed attending a conference on rural obstetric care and is urging other students with an interest in this area to put their hand up for next year’s meeting, which will be in Mildura. Here is her report on this year’s event.

I was fortunate to be sponsored by RAMUS to attend the RANZCOG (Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) Provincial Fellows Meeting Annual Scientific Meeting in Mackay, Queensland.

By attending this conference I was able to meet rural General Practitioners and Obstetricians and discuss issues pertaining to rural obstetric care. Over the course of three days we had lectures and teaching about topics including obstetric emergencies, contraception, transport of women in labour to tertiary hospitals, workforce shortage and current areas of research from trainees.

As a year 4C student this experience was very valuable for me. All of the topics were relevant to my current study of women’s health, especially considering my placement in Gippsland.

I would thoroughly recommend any Year 4C students with an interest in women’s health to apply to attend this conference next year in Mildura.

Interested students can go to the RANZCOG website for more information.

–        Sarah Simon, Year 4B Gippsland

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