REGIONAL and remote South Australian communities are set to benefit from the Federal Government's Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training program, with Flinders' University receiving $1.94 million in funding to deliver placements from its campuses in Murray Bridge and Berri.
The project aims to address workforce retention by creating a career pathway for allied health professionals, including pharmacists, to become academic clinical educators while also providing supervisor training to encourage local health professionals and community members to mentor and support students.
Flinders' University's College of Medicine and Public Health Executive Dean, Professor Jonathan Craig, said the funding announcement would leverage the institution's "already significant investment" in rural and remote Australia, through Flinders Rural and Remote Health.
"Flinders' University has delivered health education and training in regional South Australia and the Northern Territory for over 20 years, with a strong national and international reputation for providing community-engaged inter-professional training for medical, nursing and allied health students," he said.
"Working together with our local health service partners, we will look to expand our current speech pathology and social work service-learning activities to include multidisciplinary placements for students studying other allied health degrees including dietetics, audiology, public health, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry and pharmacy, not just from Flinders' University, but also UniSA, University of Adelaide and TAFE SA."
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