Rural Doctors Workforce Agency

09/09/2025

📣Attention all Allied Health students in Adelaide!

We're working with Adelaide University Rural Health Alliance (AURHA), Roustah & Flinders University Rural Health Society to bring you free coffee and chat with you about our rural allied health careers event happening on 2 November 2025☕💬

Find us on campus:
📆 The University of Adelaide Wed 10 Sep, 10am to 2pm - Maths Lawns
📅 Flinders University Fri 12 Sep, 10am to 2pm - Sturt Oval

Just scan the QR code onsite, or visit the link below, and show us you've visited our registration page to get your free coffee or tea!

👉 Register to attend SpringBoard2026: https://www.ruraldoc.com.au/springboard2026-students

08/09/2025

✈️ Ride Along with the Royal Flying Doctor Service SA/NT!

Flinders University - you're up!

Applications are open for second and third year medicine, nursing and midwifery students from Flinders UniversityFlinders University to join an Royal Flying Doctor Service SA/NT flight attachment and experience a day of real life rural and remote health care.

📅 Applications close Monday 26 September, 2025

Flinders University Rural Health Society (FURHS)

👉 More information, eligibility, apply: https://www.ruraldoc.com.au/ride-along-program

31/08/2025

🎓 Allied Health students graduating in 2025 or 2026 – your career starts here!

Registrations are open - join us in November 2025 to SpringBoard into 2026!

SpringBoard2026 is RDWA's first-ever rural Allied Health careers event for South Australian uni students.

✅ Meet rural employers face-to-face
✅ Join info sessions to help you thrive after uni
✅ Learn about jobs for 2026 and 2027
✅ Enjoy a relaxed networking lunch
✅ Hear from rural health professionals in your field

Free professional headshot for first 50 student registrations! 📸

📅 Sunday 2 Nov 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre
Free for students – registration essential

👉 Register now and start building your future in rural health:

Adelaide University Rural Health Alliance (AURHA)
Flinders University Rural Health Society
Roustah

29/08/2025

Yesterday, our Term 4 Road to Rural Interns commenced their rural rotations! 🩺

The R2R Intern program provides a valuable early career rural generalist (RG) clinical experience for interns based in metropolitan hospitals.

Interns attended an orientation session at RDWA run by RDWA EDMS, Dr Tim Kelly, and Dr Lisa Koo to help them prepare for their 10-week rotation with a refresher on practical skills for general practice, what to expect in their host practices, and to understand the support available to them.

We wish them a great rural generalist experience!

📸 Pictured at orientation:
Front row L-R: Dr Tim Kelly (GP Facilitator), Dr Madeleine Lemmey (Mannum), Dr Jasmine Crocker (Jamestown), Dr Mitali Rawat (Port Lincoln), Dr Lisa Koo (GP Facilitator)

Back row L-R: Dr Griffin Dean (Kapunda), Dr Jeremy Pople (Gumeracha), Dr Zonal Ali (Clare), Dr Ginger Akins (Murray Bridge), Dr Gabe Tramaglino (Waikerie)

Not pictured: Dr Danny Hill (Angaston), Dr Walter Ikealumba (Crystal Brook)

👉 Read more about the R2R Intern Program: https://bit.ly/R2R_Intern_Program

28/08/2025

📣 Rural high school students - are you applying to study medicine in 2026?

Now that you've sat the UCAT, it's time to prepare for the medical interview.

Apply now for RDWA's Medical Interview Skills grant to help you prepare. With our partner MedEntry's Medical Interview Skills Bundle you can:

✅ Learn the questions
✅ Develop the right strategies
✅ Practice in a simulated mock interview
✅ Get feedback from experts

👉 Find out more, check your eligibility, and apply here:
https://www.ruraldoc.com.au/medical-interview-skills

15/08/2025

📧 This week in RDWA News…

Applications are open for the Health Workforce Scholarship Program.

If you are a rural primary health care professional, you can apply for assistance to increase your skills, capacity or scope of practice to benefit the health of your local rural community.

To apply, you must be working in an eligible health profession providing services in a private primary health care setting in rural South Australia.

Applications close at 9am, Monday 15 September 2025.

👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/4fClxKx
👉 Guidelines and apply: https://www.ruraldoc.com.au/health-workforce-scholarship-program

07/08/2025

📢 Calling all rural SA Allied Health employers!

We’re inviting rural South Australian allied health practices to apply to exhibit at Allied Health SpringBoard2026 – a new event that connects employers with allied health students ready to start their careers in 2026 and 2027.

This is an opportunity to share how your business can support them as they transition from student to practitioner in their first year of practise.

📅 Sunday 2 November 2025
📍 Adelaide Convention Centre

✅ Showcase your practice as an employer of choice for graduates
✅ Meet up to 150 allied health students
✅ Join a fast-paced info program with rural SA allied health leaders
✅ Be part of the launch of RDWA’s new GradFirst Program

To support eligible exhibitors, we are offering the SpringBoard2026 Employer Grant, which includes:
💼 Exhibition booth + networking lunch
💰 $500 subsidy to help with costs
📣 Custom exhibitor banner with your logo

Applications close 9am Monday 15 September 2025.

👉 Visit the SpringBoard2026 webpage for FAQs and to apply: https://bit.ly/3IXqzVV

05/08/2025

📣Upcoming CPD Workshop: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health & Cultural Competency

Rural South Australian doctors on a pre-Fellowship or Fellowship pathway are invited to join our next Towards Fellowship quarterly workshop, focused on cultural competency and clinical updates in key areas of general practice.

🗓 30 August 2025
🕘 9am – 4pm
📍 Gilbert Suite, Adelaide Convention Centre

This session includes:
✔ Cultural competency training
✔ Clinical discussions in Hepatology, Cardiology and Endocrinology

Presenters:
- Dr Hamish Eaton - General Physician, Cardiology
- Dr David Jesudason - Endocrinologist
- Prof Alan Wigg - Gastroenterologist/Hepatologist
- Ngadjuri Elder Parry Agius - Managing Director, Linking Futures

Accredited for Educational Activity and Reviewing Performance CPD and meets Culturally Safe Practice criteria.

👉 More info and registration: ruraldoc.com.au/Towards-Fellowship-Program

18/07/2025

Uni Open Days start next week! Travel subsidies for rural high school students are still available - apply now and experience time on campus exploring health degrees!

📣 Rural high school students - are you thinking about uni open days in Adelaide?

If you are:
✔ in Year 10, 11 or 12
✔ living and attending high school in rural South Australia
✔ seriously considering studying a medicine, nursing or allied health degree in South Australia
✔ want to go to an Open Day between July 25-27...
..then RDWA can help you get to Adelaide with a travel subsidy!

Spend time on campus at university exploring health degrees to get a sense of what it's like to be a uni student.

Check our website for details.

👉 Eligibility, guidelines, and apply: https://www.ruraldoc.com.au/university-open-day
👉 Explore pathways to rural medicine: https://roadtorural.com.au/

RDWA is the Rural Doctors Workforce Agency in South Australia. We support the future and current medical workforce that ensure rural South Australian communities have the healthcare they need and deserve.

27/06/2025

📣 Rural high school students - are you thinking about uni open days in Adelaide?

If you are:
✔ in Year 10, 11 or 12
✔ living and attending high school in rural South Australia
✔ seriously considering studying a medicine, nursing or allied health degree in South Australia
✔ want to go to an Open Day between July 25-27...
..then RDWA can help you get to Adelaide with a travel subsidy!

Spend time on campus at university exploring health degrees to get a sense of what it's like to be a uni student.

Check our website for details.

👉 Eligibility, guidelines, and apply: https://www.ruraldoc.com.au/university-open-day
👉 Explore pathways to rural medicine: https://roadtorural.com.au/

RDWA is the Rural Doctors Workforce Agency in South Australia. We support the future and current medical workforce that ensure rural South Australian communities have the healthcare they need and deserve.

20/06/2025

📧 This week in RDWA News...

We've released session recordings and resources from Conference Day 1!

As our biggest CPD event of the year, we record all of the RG Conference sessions and make them available to watch on demand.

Available to rural GPs, RGs, Hospital Medical Officers, Registrars and Junior Doctors working in rural South Australia.

👉 Read more in RDWA News: http://bit.ly/4n4SdQ9
👉 Access via RDWA Learn: https://learn.ruraldoc.com.au

13/06/2025

📧 This week in RDWA News...

Yesterday, our third group of R2R Interns commenced their rural rotations in country South Australia! 🩺

The R2R Intern program provides a valuable early career rural generalist (RG) clinical experience for interns based in metropolitan hospitals.

On Wednesday the Interns attended an orientation session at RDWA run R2R Intern Clinical Director, Dr Tim Kelly, and Dr Lisa Koo. This session helps prepare Interns for their 10-week rotation with a refresher on practical skills for general practice, what to expect in their host practices, and to understand the support available to them.

We wish them a great rural generalist experience!

📸 Pictured at orientation:
Front row L-R: Dr Lisa Koo (GP Facilitator), Dr Nivida Dixit (Port Lincoln), Dr Nina Hu (Clare), Dr Sophie Shearwood (Angaston), Dr Amy Booth (Waikerie), Dr Antoinette Lam (Murray Bridge), Dr Tim Kelly (GP Facilitator)

Back row L-R: Dr Abigail Watson (Mannum), Dr Vineeth Roy (Kapunda), Dr Michael Catalanotto (Gumeracha), Dr Sam Wijesinghe (Crystal Brook), Dr Anne Zwijnenburg (Jamestown)

👉 Read more:
👉 Read more about R2R Intern Program: https://bit.ly/R2R_Intern_Program