Our recently appointed Year 2 (and 3B) academic coordinator, Alda Dunlop, was thrown into the deep end when 15 Year 2 Monash medical students recently spent two weeks in Sale as part of their curriculum, getting a taste of rural medicine.

Alda had only been with the East Gippsland Regional Clinical School for a matter of weeks when asked to coordinate the Year 2 program. She was fortunate to have the assistance of Jennie Casey who had run the program over previous years and wasn’t far away. Jennie has moved to manage the Year 4C program at the South Gippsland campus.

Activities over the 2 weeks varied from visits to local medical practices, hospital wards and pharmacies, a day out with the Community Health department of the Central Gippsland Health Service to hands on plastering and basic life support tutorials.

All students agreed that the East Gippsland region has a lot to offer in both lifestyle and medical education opportunities. We hope some will return for more rural experiences at some stage during the remainder of their medical studies.

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