Rural Doctors Workforce Agency

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

30/05/2025

📧 This week in RDWA News...

It’s Conference Day 1 and it's been wonderful to see so many rural doctors here!

👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/43x8jZT

23/05/2025

📧 This week in RDWA News…

The Health Workforce Scholarship Program (HWSP) is open for applications!

Primary health care professionals in rural South Australia can apply for a grant to participate in short courses, workshops, or formal post-graduate study that will increase their skills and ensure their local community has access to high quality health services.

📅 Applications close 16 June 2025.

👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/4mB5boL
👉 Guidelines and apply: https://www.ruraldoc.com.au/health-workforce-scholarship-program

20/05/2025

📣 The final RG25 Conference program has been released!

Check out the full list of speakers across the two-day educational and networking event for rural South Australian GPs, RGs, Hospital Medical Officers, Registrars, and Junior Doctors.

Registrations are still open!

📅 Dates: Friday 30 & Saturday 31 May 2025
📍 Location: Adelaide Convention Centre

This event has been accredited by the RACGP and Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM).

👉 Visit RG25 Conference page for Program and more details: https://www.ruraldoc.com.au/conference



📸 Photos from last year's RG24 Conference

13/05/2025

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

The University of Adelaide - it's your turn!

Applications are open for second and third year medicine, nursing and midwifery students from the University of Adelaide to join an RFDS flight attachment and experience a day of real life rural and remote health care.

📅 Applications close Monday 26 May, 2025

Adelaide University Rural Health Alliance (AURHA)

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

01/05/2025

Last place available for the June Rural Doctors’ Retreat! Apply via DHSA.

Only two places remain on our upcoming Rural Doctors' Retreat on 14 & 15 June 2025 at the Stamford Grand Glenelg.

Funded by the Rural Doctors Workforce Agency, Rural Doctors attending this Retreat will:
- discover that they have choices which ultimately influence their quality of life
- make decisions about what they would like to change to improve their lives as rural GPs
- develop strategies (including time management, communication, self-talk, self-awareness, saying no, dealing with -perfectionism etc) to assist with change
- deal with obstacles or barriers to change, including internal (self-talk, high expectations, perfectionism) and external (workload, others’ demands, lack of resources, financial and family pressures) barriers
- network with other rural doctors and share strategies for dealing with the challenges of rural practice

Don't miss your opportunity to attend. Visit https://doctorshealthsa.com.au/events/rural-doctors-retreat---feb-2025-2 for further information and a copy of the program.

Contact Megan Galpin on megan.galpin@doctorshealthsa.com.au to register your interest.

11/04/2025

📧 This week in RDWA News…

We've launched the RG25 Family Day program - Cruise to the Zoo!

Families of the rural GPs/RGs who are attending our RG25 Conference can spend the day cruising The Popeye along the River Torrens before disembarking at the Adelaide Zoo for more adventures.

👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/44mX5cu

11/04/2025

Term 2 R2R Interns are off on their rural rotations! 🩺

Last week, our second group of R2R Interns completed their Orientation with R2R Intern Clinical Director, Dr Tim Kelly, and Dr Lisa Koo. This session helps prepare the Interns for their 10-week rotation in country 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!

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

📸 Pictured at orientation:
Front row L-R: Dr Kelvin Le (Waikerie), Dr Mansa Sukheja (Crystal Brook), Dr Dickson John (Kapunda), Dr Isabella Sheehan (Murray Bridge), Dr Stephanie Louey (Mannum), Dr Lisa Koo (GP Facilitator)

Back row L-R: Dr Tim Kelly (GP Facilitator), Dr Zoe Ferguson (Angaston), Dr Nirbhay Arora (Gumeracha), Dr Liam Halford (Port Lincoln), Dr Harry Young (Jamestown), Dr Marina Habib (Clare)

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

21/03/2025

📧 This week in RDWA News…

We launched our RG25 Conference!

This annual educational and networking event delivers two days of workshops, clinical and professional learning sessions, and social and networking events.

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

👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/41CmThS
👉 Visit RG25 Conference page: https://www.ruraldoc.com.au/conference