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Flinders University School of Medicine offers a four year Graduate Entry Medical
Program (GEMP). In the GEMP the most significant year of study
is the third year when students face their final barrier exams.
Four full-year rural programs are available to students
in Year 3 of the Graduate Entry Medical Program.
The PRCC (Parallel Rural Community Curriculum) students who
move to the Riverland, Green Triangle, Hills Mallee Fleurieu
or Barossa Valley regions for the academic year are based
in General Practice and local health services to prepare for
these barrier exams.
Through the year the students must learn all of their medicine,
surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, general
practice and psychiatry in exactly the same way as students
based at Flinders Medical Centre. However instead of rotating
through a sequence of discrete terms (medicine, surgery, etc)
as their city-based peers do, the PRCC students learn these
disciplines in an integrated way throughout the year. Although
students are allocated to a specific general practice and
have a GP Supervisor, the year itself is NOT only a general
practice experience.
Students are expected to attend clinical activities related
to all medical domains. They will encounter patients in the
general practices to which they are attached and then follow
them through primary care and the hospital system. At the
end of the year the PRCC students sit exactly the same exams
as their FMC-based colleagues in all clinical domains.
The Riverland
PRCC program was established in 1997 and normally
has 8-9 students located in the towns of Renmark, Berri, Loxton,
Barmera and Waikerie. Staff are based in the Flinders University
Rural Clinical School offices in Renmark.
The GGT PRCC
began in 2002. Staff are based in Mt Gambier and the students
(numbers have ranged from 6-9) are located in Mt Gambier,
Millicent and Hamilton (Western Victoria).
The HMF PRCC
began in 2006. Staff are based in Victor Harbor and students
are located in Victor Harbor, Strathalbyn, Goolwa, Murray
Bridge and Mannum.
The Barossa
PRCC program began in 2008 as a collaboration
between Flinders University and the University of Adelaide.
Staff are based in Angaston and 8 students are located in
Gawler, Nuriootpa, Angaston, Tanunda and Kapunda.
Use the links below for more information about each program.
* * * Riverland
PRCC * * *
Greater Green Triangle PRCC * * * Hills
Mallee Fleurieu PRCC * * * Barossa
PRCC * * *
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