{"id":171,"date":"2012-05-07T11:43:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=171"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:45:11","slug":"student-now-country-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/05\/07\/student-now-country-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Monash student now a country GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_173\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-173\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/files\/2012\/05\/elmore.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Cassandra Worme is now practising as a GP in Elmore where she did a placement as a student. (Photo courtesy: Bendigo Weekly, James Aldersey)\" width=\"430\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Cassandra Worme is now practising as a GP in Elmore where she did a placement as a student. (Photo courtesy: Bendigo Weekly, James Aldersey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A lovely community and a great experience as a student have enticed Dr  Cassandra Worme back to Elmore, near Bendigo.<\/p>\n<p>Cassandra has recently started work at Elmore Primary Health Service, where  she completed her\u00a0fourth-year university placement as well as other rotations  since.<\/p>\n<p>Cassandra featured in a Bendigo Advertiser story about the Elmore Primary  Health Service. She told the newspaper: \u201cI studied at Monash and spent three  months at Elmore and decided to come back. I really enjoyedmy time here; it is a  lovely little community, and the staff are lovely.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patients are very welcoming, also. Their first question to me is \u2018how  long are you going to stay?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same story, <a title=\"Opens the Elmore Primary Health Service web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bchs.com.au\/services\/EPHS\/index.aspx\">Elmore Primary Health  Service<\/a> site co-ordinator Kathy Tuohey acknowledged the benefitsof training  medical students in regional and rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>She said research showed that if medical students were recruited and trained  in rural settings such as Elmore, there was a greater likelihood of doctors  wanting to practise in a rural locality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe training of fourth-year medical students from Monash University and  placement of registrars helps us to sustain excellent medical care in Elmore,\u201d  Ms Tuohey said. \u201cThe success of this strategy of training medical students  locally is exemplified by Dr Cassandra Worme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Health Service has been expanding its services in recent times. In  February the health service welcomed its first dentist in 25 years, a new  physiotherapist and also Dr Worme as a new GP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely community and a great experience as a student have enticed Dr Cassandra Worme back to Elmore, near Bendigo. Cassandra has recently started work at Elmore Primary Health Service, where she completed her\u00a0fourth-year university placement as well as other rotations since. Cassandra featured in a Bendigo Advertiser story about the Elmore Primary Health Service. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/05\/07\/student-now-country-gp\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1520],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}