Outreach providers wanted to host students in Outreach Student Placement Program

Research shows exposure to rural work and living are essential in encouraging the future health workforce to consider a rural career. In 2023 RDN facilitated over 50 placements working with a range of clinicians to support students to experience Outreach firsthand through the Outreach Student Placement Program (OSPP).

RDN is launching the first round of placements for 2024 and is looking for Outreach providers keen to host the next generation of rural and remote healthcare professionals. As students attend these placements on an observation basis, there are no clinical outcomes required. 

Outreach is a federally funded program formed to reduce the healthcare access barriers facing rural and remote communities, due to the distance and cost of travel to a major centre. It brings essential health services to the regions by supporting visiting medical practitioners such as specialists, nurses, midwives, allied health and Aboriginal Health Practitioners. The OSPP gives healthcare students valuable exposure to the Outreach program, providing selected medical, nursing and allied health students in NSW/ACT with the opportunity to shadow an Outreach provider in a rural or remote community.  

Become a mentor!

If you would like to become a mentor to give students a glimpse into working in the bush and the valuable work of Outreach, please complete the Expression of Interest form.

Placements will be completed by 30 June 2024.

Husband-and-wife Optomotry duo Kyriacoz and Katarina Mavroleftos (pictured) hosted medical students on Outreach services to Bourke and Brewarrina last year. Read more of their story here.

"We had a mutually beneficial couple of days where we learned from each other, and our young students appreciated how rewarding and fulfilling it is to collaboratively contribute our part towards the health of people in the Outback!"