Author Details Reported reasons of medical students for choosing a clinical longitudinal integrated clerkship in an Australian rural clinical school Harriet Denz-Penhey1 PhD, Senior research fellow, Harriet.Penhey@uwa.edu.au J Campbell Murdoch2 MD, Professor of rural and remote medicine, Campbell.Murdoch@uwa.edu.au 1 The Rural Clinical School of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. 2 The Rural Clinical School of Western Australia, St John of God Medical Centre, Bussel Highway, Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia. Correspondence: H Denz-Penhey, UWA, M501, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia  Author contribution: Harriet Denz-Penhey: original concept, designed the project, collected data, wrote the first draft, qualitative analysis. J Campbell Murdoch: literature review, contributed to drafts, contributed to qualitative analysis. Citation: Denz-Penhey H, Murdoch J.  Reported reasons of medical students for choosing a clinical longitudinal integrated clerkship in an Australian rural clinical school. Rural and Remote Health 9: 1093. (Online) 2009. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 26 September 2008 Revised: 5 February 2009 Accepted: 26 March 2009