Rural: Other resources

The Rural Anaesthetic Crisis Management (RACM) course focusses on improving emergency anaesthetic skills for clinicians practising in rural and remote environments.

The ABCs of Anaesthesia Boot Camp has grown into a series of interactive lectures covering all the important concepts, frameworks and knowledge you need to know in your first 12 months of anaesthesia.

Closed Facebook Group. Please search and request membership if you are on Facebook for access to various resources including the “RADU Dropbox” and peer discussions.

The magazine for healthy and sustainable rural, regional, and remote communities.

Partyline is the online magazine of the National Rural Health Alliance, the peak body working to improve health and wellbeing in rural and remote Australia.

The Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin brings together the latest information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. The HealthBulletin is produced by the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.

Reflecting the wide range of users – policy makers, health practitioners, service providers, researchers, students and the general community – the HealthBulletin aims to keep users informed of current information of relevance to those working and researching in the field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet is an innovative Internet resource that aims to inform practice and policy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health by making research and other knowledge readily accessible.

The portal aims to support teaching health professionals to critically reflect on the concept of cultural safety and to deliver safe, accessible and responsive healthcare that is free from racism. Links are provided here to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and cultural safety resources, relating to the five capabilities of a refreshed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework.

The Framework promotes a national approach to policy, planning, design and delivery of health services in rural and remote communities and is directed at decision and policy makers at the national, state and territory levels. It may also be used by communities and local health service providers to plan services and programs according to local needs. Overall it aims to improve health outcomes and return on investment for rural and remote Australians.

Download the Word or PDF version of the Strategic Framework here

DoctorConnect provides information to international medical graduates and their employers. It aims to help international medical graduates understand the steps required to work as a doctor in Australia, where they can work and restrictions on billing patients under Medicare.

The National Rural Health Alliance represents 44 national organisations working to improve the health and wellbeing of 7 million people in rural and remote Australia.

A list of networks, links and other resources from the Australian-based website about rural and remote doctors and health information.

RDAA 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.