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Let’s not beat around the bush – medical emergencies can happen anytime, anyplace. From broken bones to snake bites, we tested our med students to see how they combined bush skills and clinical knowledge in unfamiliar territory.

When I applied to Thursday Island in the Torres Strait for the Extended Placement Program, I anticipated developing my clinical skills, alongside my beach and fishing skills. What I didn’t expect, was to feel so integrated into the medical team and community that I didn’t want to leave.

If you’re considering rural – just do it! The Rural Clinical School is definitely the place to go for brilliant teaching, a healthy social network, amazing opportunities and experiences that you can’t get in the city.

Ever since I was a child I have wanted to be involved in medicine. Over the years my passion for science and helping people has increased, signalling to me that medicine was the right pathway to become involved in.

Being in Theodore for my Extended Placement with Dr Bruce Chater is an invaluable opportunity for anyone considering rural medicine as a career. Seeing him get called in to hospital on a weekend, scrub up and insert a chest drain while wearing a pair of sandals was just amazing.

At the risk of sounding cliché, I wanted to study medicine to know more about the amazing thing that is the human body. Equally amazing, but arguably scarier, is the things that can go wrong with simple processes, and that’s what I find interesting.

“Growing up in a small country town I was very aware of the lack of doctors, especially female doctors working in rural areas, so I’ve always wanted to come back closer to home to help fix this problem.”