ArticleBMC medical education2024
Location and access to health courses for rural students: an Australian audit.
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- From Simulation to Inspiration: Using Virtual Reality to Explore Rural Health Careers.The Australian journal of rural health · 2026Article
- Determining constructs of high-quality rural health student placements: a multiple case ECOUTER study.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Development of an entropy-weighted evaluation system for optometric education quality in vocational colleges of Yunnan Province.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Beyond the Rural Placement: Considerations for Supporting Rural Origin Health Professions Students During Their Entire University Experience.The Australian journal of rural health · 2026Article
- Assessing the Effect of Rural Placements Through a Pre-Post Approach With Different Temporal Targets: Are We Converting or Sustaining?The Australian journal of rural health · 2026Article
- Quantifying and Understanding Healthcare Service Access for Geographically Distributed Communities: The Application of Address-Level Intelligence.The Australian journal of rural health · 2026Article
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- Mature-Aged People in the Rural Health Workforce System: A Systems Modelling Approach.The Australian journal of rural health · 2025Article
- Will they come back? Evaluation of health student placements in remote and very remote regions of Australia.BMC medical education · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe undersupply of health professionals in rural areas impacts healthcare access for those living in rural Australia. A strategy to increase the rural health workforce is to recruit and educate rural people. However, long-standing inequities for rural Australians in accessing tertiary education persist. The aim of this study was to audit the 2023 offerings of Australian allied health, nursing, dental and medical university courses to identify geographical availability and those delivered online.
methodsA desktop audit of Australian allied health, nursing, dental and medical courses offered in 2023 was undertaken to identify the courses and delivery modes of those courses offered in regional, rural and remote locations. The audit involved searching lists of professionally accredited courses and university websites, which is publicly available information about health courses. Data were tabulated and descriptive statistics used for data analysis.
resultsThere were marked differences in online and rural course offerings across health professions in Modified Monash (MM) Model category 2-7 locations. Nursing/midwifery had the most courses while pharmacy, podiatry, dental and medicine had few offerings and optometry had none. Social work, nursing/midwifery and psychology also had the most online course offerings. Most courses were offered in MM2 and MM3 locations with few offerings in rural or remote areas. The availability of studying part-time was very limited and often this was only for the early years of the course. Inconsistencies relating to the course information on university websites existed relating to course delivery mode descriptions.
conclusionsThere is a lack of rural on-campus or online course offerings for some allied health disciplines, dentistry and medicine. Provision of end-to-end, flexible courses in rural areas or online is needed to reduce access barriers for rural students and to enable sustainable rural health workforce development.
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