New clinical training centre for Darling Downs
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Australia's largest rural clinical school will open a $4.2 million advanced clinical training centre on the Darling Downs in south-east Queensland today.
The University of Queensland (UQ) says the complex, combined with expansions in Rockhampton, Bundaberg and Hervey Bay, will give students an added incentive to try rural medicine.
The head of UQ's School of Medicine, Professor David Wilkinson, says the new centre will increase medical support in rural areas.
"If students have a significant period of their clinical training in a rural setting, they are also about two to three times more likely to go on and practice medicine in a rural setting and again that's high quality, strong quantitative evidence," he said.
