Rural graduates stay in the country
November 4, 2010
CHARLES Sturt University has
unveiled plans to progress
“integrated Primary Health
Education” across various health
disciplines if it is successful in its bid
for Federal Government Funding for
a new school of medicine.
The university has argued that
training health professionals in
regional areas is a key way of
ensuring that more health workers
will be available in country areas.
“We have maintained for many
years that if we ‘train regional
students in regional institutions for
regional employment’ we can
address the serious health
workforce shortages evident across
regional Australia,” said Acting
Dean of Science at CSU, Associate
Professor Julia Coyle.
The university has reported the
results of a recent national
Graduate Destination Survey, which
showed that more than two thirds
of those with the university’s health
degrees who chose to work first in
regional Australia were originally
from a regional or rural home.
“Charles Sturt University has
based its bid for a new $98 million
medical school to the Federal
Government on its ability to recruit
and retain health professionals in
rural areas,” Coyle said.
Pharmacy was one of the courses
which saw the highest country
retention rate, with 83% of CSU
pharmacy graduates initially
employed in regional areas.
The university said if the funding
is approved it would “bring together
its teaching capabilities in areas of
critical labour force shortage in
rural and regional Australia.”
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