Rural Medical Education Australia (RuralMedEd) (RuralMedEd), formerly known as Queensland Rural Medical Education (QRME) began in 2002 when a group of rural doctors formed an organisation with a vision to ‘train to retain’ doctors in Rural Queensland. The initial training was directed at General Practitioners but grew to include medical students and junior doctors.
In 2010 RuralMedEd entered into a partnership with Griffith University which represented the successful collaboration of a large, established and well-resourced university with a flexible, responsive, not-for-profit community-based organisation that is acutely attuned to the changing needs of the rural communities it serves.
RuralMedEd’s flagship Longlook program supports one-to-two year clinical placements for medical students in rural communities. These lengthy placements provide an alternative to the model of short-term clinical rotations for city-based medical students, many of whom have not considered careers in non-metropolitan settings. The Longlook program addresses medical workforce shortages in rural communities through the achievement of a rural retention rate of 80% for Longlook students who have trained in a rural community for two years.
The course is nationally recognised training with Rural Medical Education Australia (RTO code 45542, CRICOS code 04128G) delivering HLT33115 Certificate III in Health Services Assistance and will give you the practical skills and knowledge to work as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team.
Learn moreAllied Health Assistants work as part of a multidisciplinary team under the guidance and supervision of allied health professionals. Allied Health Assistants can work in one specialty area, or work across the different allied health professions.
The Allied Health Assistance workforce is expanding with the Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance being identified as the qualification best aligned to allied health assistant roles within organisations such as State funded health organisations and Residential Aged Care Facilities.
Learn moreThis interactive one-day course is designed to provide registered nurses, medical technicians and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners with the knowledge and skills to safely undertake peripheral cannula insertion, monitoring, and care in the primary setting.
This notionally accredited unit of competency is delivered as Perform Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation I HLTPHS009
Learn moreThis interactive one-day course is designed to provide enrolled nurses, registered nurses and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners with the knowledge and skills to safely obtain blood sampling in the primary setting.
This nationally accredited unit of competency is delivered as Perform Venous Blood Collection I HLTPAT002
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