Pre-graduating medical students' interest in rural internship

Dr Andrew Szabo

qualifications: MD

contribution: original concept, devised survey tool, collected data, contributed to drafts

position: Intern

Sam Curtin

qualifications: MBBS

contribution: devised survey tool, collected data

Lee Anne Gray

qualifications: MBBS

contribution: collected data, contributed to drafts

David Paul

qualifications: MBBS, PhD

contribution: Ethics for Notre Dame

position: Professor, Associate Dean

Aboriginal health professional education, medical education, Aboriginal primary health care

A/Prof Denese Playford

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, literature review, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts

position: Associate Professor

Australia

I work as medical educator for The Rural Clinical School of Western Australia, reaching academics in 14 widely distributed sites and approximately 90 students per annum, to ensure assessment is standardised, curriculum is well supported, and evaluation is conducted each year.

I am interested in the development of a rural workforce, describing workforce trends, and building local communities of practice. I'm also interested in service learning as a way of engaging medical students' values and transformative learning as a way to change students' perspectives about what's important in their work and life.