Regional Training Hubs
Funded by the Australian Government, WA Regional Training Hubs have been developed as a component of the Department of Health's Integrated Rural Training Pipeline for Medicine. The initiative aims to produce a future medical workforce that has been locally trained within Australia to service rural, remote, and regional communities by expanding post-graduate training opportunities within the regions.
We help shape your career in rural medicine
Photo credit: Caitlyn Watts – Pilbara News
Embedded in the medical community for two decades, the Rural Clinical School of WA understands the complexities of shaping your career as a rural doctor. Our focus at WA Regional Training Hubs is to support medical students and junior doctors in creating their career pathway from first year medical student with rural intentions to Fellowed rural practitioner.
In collaboration with our stakeholders, WA Regional Training Hubs strive to develop new prevocational and vocational rural training pathways, contributing to the creation of a sustainable medical workforce that supports the health requirements of our local communities.
How we can support you
Explore our Hubs
Kimberley & Pilbara
This Training Hub has offices situated in Broome and Karratha. We offer outreach at the RCSWA locations in Derby, Kununurra, and Port Hedland.
Our Medical Coordinators live within the Kimberley- Pilbara region and work in the fields of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, anaesthetics, emergency medicine, general practice, obstetrics, palliative care, public health, and tropical medicine.
Training opportunities in Kimberley & Pilbara
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For Students
- RCSWA Penultimate Year Program – Broome, Derby, Karratha, Kununurra, and Port Hedland
- RCSWA Final Year Program – Broome
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For Junior Doctors
Training opportunities will be listed in the near future, for now please contact us directly on hubs@rcswa.edu.au
Plan your career with our Medical Coordinators
Kimberley & PILbara Hub
Graeme Fitzclarence
Graeme is a rural generalist and proceduralist, and a fellowed GP with advanced special skills in emergency medicine, anaesthetics and palliative care. He is the Director of Clinical Training at Karratha Health Campus and is often found travelling throughout the Pilbara due to his palliative care responsibilities. Graeme was inspired to develop a career in medicine by his childhood doctor from the Wheatbelt and his GP wife. He enjoys the rural and remote lifestyle and the variety that it brings to his work.
What I love about the RCSWA
I love to see the clinical growth and maturation of students throughout the year. Their memories and friendships last forever.
Midwest & Goldfields Hub
Angela Glen
Angela is a GP anaethetist based in Geraldton. She completed her graduate medical training in Fremantle before relocating to Geraldton. After a term of GP training in the region, she had such a fantastic time that she decided to settle there permanently. Angela shares her time between teaching RCSWA students, anaesthetics, general practice and Regional Training Hubs.
What I love about the RCSWA
I enjoy working with like-minded doctors who share my passion for rural medicine and for mentoring medical students.
Great Southern, Wheatbelt & South West Hub
Lorri Hopkins
For most of her career Lorri has worked in Albany as a rural GP and medical educator for remote and rural generalist GP registrars. She is involved with RCSWA to assist with developing rural pathways for general practice. She loves the change of rural medicine as well as the light bulb moments she sees with students and registrars.
What I love about the RCSWA
I love working with like-minded colleagues who are dedicated to supporting the training of rural doctors.
Midwest & Goldfields
This Training Hub has offices situated in Esperance and Geraldton. We offer outreach at the RCSWA locations in Carnarvon and Kalgoorlie.
Our Medical Coordinators live within the Mid West - Goldfields region and work in the fields of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, anesthetics, endocrinology, emergency medicine, general practice, obstetrics, and paediatrics.
Training opportunities in Midwest & Goldfields
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For Students
- RCSWA Penultimate Year Program - Carnarvon, Geraldton, and Kalgoorlie
- RCSWA Final Year Program – Geraldton and Kalgoorlie
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For Junior Doctors
Training opportunities will be listed in the near future, for now please contact us directly on hubs@rcswa.edu.au
Plan your career with our Medical Coordinators
Midwest & Goldfields Hub
Angela Glen
Angela is a GP anaethetist based in Geraldton. She completed her graduate medical training in Fremantle before relocating to Geraldton. After a term of GP training in the region, she had such a fantastic time that she decided to settle there permanently. Angela shares her time between teaching RCSWA students, anaesthetics, general practice and Regional Training Hubs.
What I love about the RCSWA
I enjoy working with like-minded doctors who share my passion for rural medicine and for mentoring medical students.
Great Southern, Wheatbelt & South West Hub
Lorri Hopkins
For most of her career Lorri has worked in Albany as a rural GP and medical educator for remote and rural generalist GP registrars. She is involved with RCSWA to assist with developing rural pathways for general practice. She loves the change of rural medicine as well as the light bulb moments she sees with students and registrars.
What I love about the RCSWA
I love working with like-minded colleagues who are dedicated to supporting the training of rural doctors.
Kimberley & PILbara Hub
Graeme Fitzclarence
Graeme is a rural generalist and proceduralist, and a fellowed GP with advanced special skills in emergency medicine, anaesthetics and palliative care. He is the Director of Clinical Training at Karratha Health Campus and is often found travelling throughout the Pilbara due to his palliative care responsibilities. Graeme was inspired to develop a career in medicine by his childhood doctor from the Wheatbelt and his GP wife. He enjoys the rural and remote lifestyle and the variety that it brings to his work.
What I love about the RCSWA
I love to see the clinical growth and maturation of students throughout the year. Their memories and friendships last forever.
Great Southern, Wheatbelt & South West
This Training Hub has offices situated in Albany, Bunbury and Narrogin. We offer outreach at the RCSWA locations in Bridgetown, Busselton, and Northam.
Our Medical Coordinators live within the Southwest - Great Southern - Wheatbelt region and work in the fields of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, anesthetics, emergency medicine, general practice, obstetrics, palliative care, and psychiatry.
Training opportunities in Great Southern, Wheatbelt & South West
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For Students
- RCSWA Penultimate Year Program – Albany, Bunbury, Busselton, Esperance, Narrogin, Northam, Warren Blackwood
- RCSWA Final Year Program – Albany and Bunbury
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For Junior Doctors
Training opportunities will be listed in the near future, for now please contact us directly on hubs@rcswa.edu.au
Plan your career with our Medical Coordinators
Great Southern, Wheatbelt & South West Hub
Lorri Hopkins
For most of her career Lorri has worked in Albany as a rural GP and medical educator for remote and rural generalist GP registrars. She is involved with RCSWA to assist with developing rural pathways for general practice. She loves the change of rural medicine as well as the light bulb moments she sees with students and registrars.
What I love about the RCSWA
I love working with like-minded colleagues who are dedicated to supporting the training of rural doctors.
Kimberley & PILbara Hub
Graeme Fitzclarence
Graeme is a rural generalist and proceduralist, and a fellowed GP with advanced special skills in emergency medicine, anaesthetics and palliative care. He is the Director of Clinical Training at Karratha Health Campus and is often found travelling throughout the Pilbara due to his palliative care responsibilities. Graeme was inspired to develop a career in medicine by his childhood doctor from the Wheatbelt and his GP wife. He enjoys the rural and remote lifestyle and the variety that it brings to his work.
What I love about the RCSWA
I love to see the clinical growth and maturation of students throughout the year. Their memories and friendships last forever.
Midwest & Goldfields Hub
Angela Glen
Angela is a GP anaethetist based in Geraldton. She completed her graduate medical training in Fremantle before relocating to Geraldton. After a term of GP training in the region, she had such a fantastic time that she decided to settle there permanently. Angela shares her time between teaching RCSWA students, anaesthetics, general practice and Regional Training Hubs.
What I love about the RCSWA
I enjoy working with like-minded doctors who share my passion for rural medicine and for mentoring medical students.
Connect with rural medicine
As rural champions, we are passionate about sharing the experiences that led to us practicing medicine in rural and remote WA.
Click on the resources below to listen to podcasts about a diverse range of rural careers, read about specialist paediatric training in the Kimberley and connect with us on Facebook to stay up to date on news, education, and networking opportunities.
Destination Medicine Podcast
The Destination Medicine© podcast library has been created to assist anyone who has thought about a career as a rural doctor to make informed decisions and navigate with greater confidence a rural medical pathway. Our doctors share their candid and fascinating stories so that you, the listener, can have a better understanding of what’s involved in pursuing a rural career pathway.
WA Rural Doctors in Training
WARDiT exists to support, inspire, link together and improve the experience for junior doctors working in rural and remote WA. More junior doctors than ever before are joining JMO societies around the state. Dr Brit Wicksteed has been instrumental in establishing societies in Albany and the Kimberley and has been working with the co-founders of the new Bunbury society.
A lot to love about rural WA
If producers of the show Farmer Wants a Wife needed any leads on how to find love, they only need venture out to Dowerin Field Days, according to Dr Clare Hardie. A RCSWA Northam 2015 alumni, Clare met her husband Brendon at the event, they married in February 2018 and welcomed baby boy George last year, Clare is now working as a GP in Narrogin and calls Wandering home.
Our collaborative partners
WA Country Health Service
The WA Country Health Service (WACHS) is the largest country health system in Australia and one of the biggest in the world, providing health services to approximately half a million people, including 45,000 Aboriginal people, over a vast two and a half million square kilometre area. The organisation comprises seven regions, with a strong network of public hospitals, health services and health centres located across rural and remote Western Australia. Our core business is the provision of quality, accessible health services to country WA residents and visitors.
Find out more: www.wacountry.health.wa.gov.au
Rural Generalist Pathway
The aim of the Rural Generalist Pathway is to streamline the training journey for aspiring Rural Generalists. Once on the pathway, trainees will be assigned a mentor who is an experienced Rural Generalist, provided with individualised career navigation, connected to our network of stakeholders and given priority access to requisite courses. The WA Rural Generalist Pathway Coordination Unit is supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Health under the National Rural Generalist Pathway.
Find out more: ruralgeneralist.health.wa.gov.au
Rural Doctors’ Association of Western Australia
The Rural Doctors’ Association of Western Australia is the peak professional body representing the interests of rural and remote doctors and the communities they live and work in. We are committed to building and maintaining a workforce of highly skilled and motivated rural medical practitioners which requires adequate training and proper incentives, remuneration and support.
Find out more: www.rdawa.com.au
Rural Health West
Rural Health West believes that everyone, everywhere is entitled to access to quality healthcare. We deliver programs to attract, recruit and support health professionals to regional, rural and remote WA. Rural Health West supports rural health professionals through a diverse range of programs and services including professional development such as conferences and workshops, financial support through grants and sponsorships, rural immersions, personal and family support, outreach programs, business support and advice to practices. Our personalised recruitment service helps fill roles such as rural GPs, nursing, midwifery, dental and allied health jobs – where they are needed most.
Find out more: www.ruralhealthwest.com.au
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) is accredited by the Australian Medical Council (AMC) for setting professional medical standards for training, assessment, certification and continuing professional development in the specialty of general practice.
We are the only College in Australia dedicated to rural and remote medicine, and we play an important role in supporting junior doctors and medical students considering a career in rural medicine. We are committed to delivering sustainable, high-quality health services to rural and remote communities by providing quality education programs, innovative support, and strong representation for doctors who serve those communities.
Find out more: www.acrrm.org.au
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is the voice of general practitioners in our growing cities, and throughout rural and remote Australia. For more than 60 years, the RACGP has supported the backbone of Australia’s health system by setting the standards for education and practice and advocating for better health and wellbeing for all Australians.
The pathway to fellowship with the RACGP is challenging but rewarding. Fellowship is a step towards a career where you will have the opportunity to further specialise, be faced with a diverse range of medical conditions, and have opportunities to make a difference to your patients and their communities. Start your journey with a student membership with the RACGP, which unlocks a network of support and resources.
Find out more: www.racgp.org.au
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