Kyneton About Information coming soon!   Accommodation Rural health students have access to accommodation managed by health service partners. Please contact the health service directly for accommodation bookings. Kyneton hospital is part of the Central Highlands Rural Health. See the website HERE for contact deails.   Contacts You may be eligible for Going Rural Health financial assistance to support a placement in Kyneton. Please visit the Student Support Scheme page for more details HERE.   Useful Links For more information on the region, and what it has to offer, ple ..read more

Rupanyup About Information coming soon!   Accommodation Rural health students have access to accommodation managed by health service partners. Please contact the health service directly for accommodation bookings. Rupanyup hospital is part of the West Wimmera Health Service. See the website HERE for contact deails.   Useful Links For more information on the region, and what it has to offer, please visit the web links below. Tourist information:  see www.wimmeramalleetourism.com.au/and select the appropriate town.   Health Service Information: Health Service we ..read more

Cultural immersion experience Budja Budja Halls Gap 29/05/2023 The pregnant lady, just outside Ararat, is a landmark that is part of the creation story about the Giant Emu Tchingal and Purra the Kangaroo. On Monday 29th May, Going Rural Health again sponsored a cultural immersion experience – primarily for health students on placement in the Ballarat & Grampians region. Students were from 5 different disciplines (medicine, paramedicine, nursing, social work, and physiotherapy) and from 3 different universities. Staff attending were from Budja Budja Medical Centre, as well as and one staff ..read more

allied health students providing crucial early intervention services Benalla children benefitting from speech pathology services in early learning centres From left to right: Tara Case (Associate Lecturer in Interprofessional Rural Education at Going Rural Health, University of Melbourne), Jess Hann (speech pathology student), Lisa Mim (kindergarten teacher), and Elise McColl (speech pathology student). Kindergarten children in Benalla are benefitting from a university partnership bringing final year speech pathology students into the early learning centres – and helping to put children on an ..read more

save the date! Hume Region Allied Health Conference 2023 University of Melbourne Shepparton Campus, Thursday 26th October Join us at the Hume Region Allied Health Conference on 26 October 2023! Alongside the North East and Goulburn Valley Allied Health Education Group, we’re working to deliver this fantastic conference at the University of Melbourne Shepparton campus. More details coming soon. Learn more → https://www.gvhealth.org.au/health-professionals/allied-health-education-group/ The post Save the date! Hume Region Allied Health Conference 2023 appeared first on Going Rural Health ..read more

rural placement information night 2023 University of Melbourne, Tuesday 14th March University of Melbourne rural placement student panel. Click on the image to watch a short video of the evening.  What an amazing night to hear what it’s like going rural!   We heard from six students on their experiences, the challenges they faced, the positives and their preconceptions going into a rural placement – and how they feel about it all now…   The panel helped ~100 University of Melbourne health students understand the benefits of rural placements, why they (and we) love rural, a ..read more

allied health placements in creswick Service Learning Placements benefitting Creswick Primary Schools A successful partnership between Going Rural Health, Creswick Primary School and Creswick North Primary School provided allied health services to the Creswick community throughout 2022. Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Social Work students have been supported to undertake supervised placements within the schools, while simultaneously offering valuable services in line with the schools’ identified needs including early intervention. Ellie and Elizabeth, two third-year occupational therap ..read more

Going rural Health student cultural EXPErience Halls Gap – ‘Walk with the Wergaia People’ Jo Harrison-Clarke On Thursday 17th November, the Going Rural Health (GRH) team facilitated a student Aboriginal Student Cultural Experience workshop in Halls Gap, with our partner Budja Budja Aboriginal Co-operative. The GRH team transported 11 students to the Budja Budja Medical Clinic for a clinic tour before moving on to our conference venue, where we were joined by two healthcare professionals for the training itself. The workshop – ‘Yanng Ngalung Maligundidj’ which means ‘Walk with the Wergaia ..read more

allied health placement benefiting small community Service Learning Occupational Therapy Placements at Corryong College Jessica and Laura, two third-year occupational therapy (OT) students from Charles Sturt University, recently completed a seven-week placement block at Corryong College. Through a partnership between Corryong College and Going Rural Health, this placement was designed to simultaneously offer valuable allied health services at Corryong College whilst providing allied health students with a quality, supervised placement opportunity. “I was very excited to do a school-based plac ..read more

Healthcare boost arriving in Tallangatta Through a partnership between the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, nursing students will soon arrive in Tallangatta to undergo an innovative service-learning placement providing wellbeing services to residents. Tallangatta is a Victorian rural township located 338 km north of Melbourne. Sitting under the newly launched Mental Health and Wellbeing for Remote and Aboriginal Victorians project by the University of Melbourne – this is the first placement of its kind – designed to train the future health workforce and promot ..read more