title: Medical schools can cooperate: a new joint venture to provide medical education in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales.
abstract: The medical schools at the University of Western Sydney, University of Wollongong and University of Sydney have developed a joint program for training medical students through placements of up to 40 weeks on the New South Wales North Coast. The new partnership agency - the North Coast Medical Education Collaboration - builds on the experience of regional doctors and their academic partners. A steering committee has identified the availability and support requirements of local practitioners to provide training, and has undertaken a comparative mapping of learning objectives and assessments from the courses of the three universities. The goals of the program include preparing doctors who can perform effectively in rural settings and multidisciplinary health care teams, and to advance research in medical education.
authors.affiliation: North Coast Medical Education Collaboration, Lismore, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Sue L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Page
authors.forename: Hudson H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Birden
authors.forename: J Nicky
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Hudson
authors.forename: Jill E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Thistlethwaite
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bushnell
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hogg
authors.forename: S Ben
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Freedman
authors.forename: Neville
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yeomans
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D009517:New South Wales; D019035:Rural Health Services