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About Mediventure
Rural Medicine... an exciting, challenging and exhilarating adventure.
Everything about Western Australia is spectacular. Here is a place where you can laze on a beach in the tropical north and explore the local wineries in the South West. Here is a place where the people have a warmth and hospitality you'll find nowhere else.
Covering over one third of the Australian continent and 2.5 million square kilometres in area, much of the State is sparsely populated, with 95% of its total area classified as rural. A little over one quarter of the State's 2.2 million people live outside its capital city. Many of them live in small, isolated communities.
While the Perth metropolitan area supports around 2,000 general practitioners in private practice, in rural parts of the State there are some 600 doctors working either in private practice, hospitals, Aboriginal Medical Service's or the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia.
Whilst some of the placements are located in remote areas, you are definitely not alone. The Australian Medical Association (WA) (AMA) and Rural Health West (RHW) previously known as the Western Australian Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine (WACRRM) provide exceptional support and service to all rural doctors.
In recognising the special requirements of rural communities across the State and the need to provide medical services based close to the people who require them, a task force was implemented in 1987 which aimed at establishing a strategy to provide rural communities with primary medical care services.
The AMA through its membership of the task force recommended the establishment of the rural workforce agency now known as Rural Health West (RHW). With the enthusiastic support of the Health Department of Western Australia, the Rural Doctors Association and Country Shire Councils, RHW began operating in 1990 as part of the Department of General Practice at the University of Western Australia.
Today, Rural Health West (RHW), an independent organisation, and the AMA (WA) each year contract around 200 medical practitioners for work across the State, working with private practitioners, Divisions of General Practice, Aboriginal Medical Services and hospitals.
You now have the opportunity to join the adventure of a life time with the Mediventure Program.
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