Outback Trail Options

Flinders Ranges trail- synopsis and photos

Riverland trail- synopsis and photos

Hills Mallee Fleurieu trail- synopsis and photos

 

Tour 1 - Flinders Ranges - Vertical Integrated training in the Outback

Departing Saturday 16th October
This tour will showcase general practices in rural South Australia which provide vertically integrated clinical training for GP registrars, interns and medical students from both Adelaide and Flinders Universities. Outback trail guests will have an opportunity to meet with GP supervisors, learners and educators in four rural practices while gaining a perspective of this beautiful region.

Day 1 Pick up: Intercontinental Hotel, North Terrace at 0830

You will head north from Adelaide to the Clare Valley region for a practice visit in this premier wine growing district. Travel onto Jamestown for a second practice visit and overnight at Wilpena Pound Resort, set amidst the vibrant colours of the 800 million-year-old quartzite and limestone outcrop that is the Flinders Ranges. This place has strong significance to the indigenous Adnyamathanha people.

Day 2
An early start will see an opportunity for free time, scenic flights, walking or 4WD tours (at your own cost). We will travel through historic Hawker before arriving in Quorn, where we will spend time with the local GP and stay overnight.

Day 3
You will commence the day with a walk up Devil’s Peak before meeting up with rural doctors from practices in Port Pirie and Crystal Brook. After lunch you will head through the Barossa Valley to join others at the conference venue.
Cost: $660.00

Images: (above) Wilpena Pound, (right) Devil’s Peak

Lucie Walter's father Bob is coming on the trip to Wilpena and he is a geologist who did the first regional geological map of the area in the early 1960's. He was involved in the work on the famous 600 million year old Ediacara Fauna in the Wilpena Pound sandstones. These fossils are now known around the world and a new Geological time period has recently been introduced for the first time in over a hundred years, called the Ediacaran Period. (Pooh! to the Jurassic and Cretaceous). This fauna comprises the first soft bodied metazoans and represents the creatures that emerged from the slime for the first time. Just like the people coming on this trip many of them actually defy classification.
Bob will give us an insight into the geology behind the scenery. It should make it an unforgettable journey.

Tour 2 – Riverland – Growing your own health professional workforce

Sunday 17th and Monday 18th October
The Riverland is a unique agricultural region on the banks of the mighty River Murray. The region is internationally renowned for innovation in irrigation. It is also the pioneer site of the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum, the Rural Paramedic Program, the first simulation unit in rural Australia and the mobile simulation van.
This outback trail will allow you to see for yourself a harsh desert which has been transformed into the fruit bowl of Australia and to meet with local health professionals, local community members and students. Hear their stories of how the Riverland, with a dearth of health workforce, has become the national engine driver for rural health workforce development, as they demonstrate how they have harnessed their local resources to grow their own workforce.

Day 1 - Pick up: Intercontinental Hotel, North Terrace at 0830
On your journey you will visit the beautiful town of Waikerie, meet local clinicians and community members and lunch at the internationally recognised Banrock Station Wine & Wetland Centre, then travel on to Renmark for a relaxing cruise along the Murray River hosted by Lecturer in Interprofessional Education, Lyn Gum, with staff and students from Flinders University Rural Clinical School. Sunday night dinner will be held at the award-winning themed restaurant, The Mallee Fowl, where you will enjoy good food served in an old shearing shed filled with an eclectic array of Australian memorabilia.

Day 2
Enjoy a leisurely walk along the river front in Berri before heading off to visit the Flinders University Rural Clinical School in Renmark, including a tour and training session in the Simulation Centre. Consider how to use your clinical space in creative and versatile ways to provide high quality interprofessional clinical simulation with a focus on quality debriefing. Enjoy lunch on the riverfront at the Renmark Club, before travelling back to the Barossa Valley - arriving sometime around 4.30pm.

Cost: $660.00

Tour 3 - Hills Mallee Fleurieu region - Showcasing the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum

Sunday 17th and Monday 18th October
Pick up: Intercontinental Hotel, North Terrace at 0830
Spend time taking in the best of the Southern Fleurieu region of South Australia while also being introduced to local medical staff and students who will showcase the full year longitudinal integrated student clerkship known as the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum.

Goolwa, a town rich in the history of railway and paddle steamer transportation, is located at the end of the famous Murray River and is now a well known tourist destination. Victor Harbor, also a well known tourist destination, is the home of the horse drawn tram to Granite Island.

Murray Bridge and Mannum are both significant River Murray towns, one being a regional city, the other a town and community whose background is closely linked to the rural nature of local enterprise and the history of transportation of wool and wheat down the river to the port of Goolwa.
Spend time in discussion with local clinicians and student preceptors who are passionate about ensuring the provision of medical education in rural areas.

Cost: $660.00