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Supporting SA's rural GPs, nurses, midwives & allied health workforce & specialist outreach visits How can we support your career in rural practise?

Are you considering work as a GP, Allied Health Professional or Nurse in country South Australia? Rural practise offers stability, work life balance and opportunities unavailable in the city and we can help you get there. From recruitment to clinical development and training, we are with you every step of the way. Services we provide includes:
• Assistance finding placements and settling into rural communities
• Help with registration, provider number and credentialing processes
• Fellowship support
• Grants for relocation and continued clinical and professional development

Our Locum Program makes it possible for rural GPs to take a well-deserved break and grants are available to support your family’s transition to a rural community. RDWA’s SAVES program provides remote medical assistance by experienced rural GPs to patients and their local nurses in 34 participating rural hospitals across South Australia.

30/10/2026

RDWA’s Towards Fellowship Program is an education, training and support pathway that assists non-Fellowed doctors practising in rural South Australia.

As part of the program, we offer quarterly professional development workshops, which are available to doctors at any stage of their Fellowship journey.

September’s workshop was on Palliative Care, Geriatric Care and Difficult Consultations, where participants highlighted the relevance, comprehensiveness and practicality of the program.

We are inviting rural South Australian doctors on a pre-Fellowship or Fellowship pathway to register for the last workshop for 2026:

🩺 Cardiology, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Clinical Reasoning.
🗓 Saturday 28 November, 2026
🕘 9am – 4pm
📍 Shoalhaven Room, Crowne Plaza, Mawson Lakes

For more information about the Towards Fellowship Program, or to register, visit: https://ruraldoc.com.au/events/towards-fellowship-quarterly-professional-development-workshops/

📸 Doctors participating in a quiz at a quarterly professional development workshop

25/09/2026

Join the Doctors Supporting Rural South Australia Every Night

For nearly 10 years, the South Australian Virtual Emergency Service (SAVES) has been providing virtual emergency care to rural communities across South Australia, ensuring patients can access high-quality care closer to home.

We're currently seeking Fellowed GPs, ideally with rural emergency experience, to join our growing team of clinicians.

Based at our Mile End office, you'll work overnight alongside another GP to provide virtual emergency consultations and support nursing staff across 33 rural hospitals throughout South Australia.

Why join SAVES?
✅ Be part of an innovative and established virtual emergency service
✅ Contribute directly to improving healthcare access for rural communities
✅ Maintain and develop your rural emergency skills
✅ Enjoy comprehensive training and credentialing support
✅ Work with a supportive, highly experienced clinical team
✅ Access flexible casual employment arrangements and salary packaging opportunities

Available shifts:
🕖 7:00pm to 7:00am
🕖 7:00pm to 1:00am

If you're passionate about rural health, emergency medicine and innovative models of care, we'd love to hear from you.

Send your CV in confidence to [email protected]

Find out more about this opportunity: https://ruraldoc.com.au/join-saves/

28/08/2026

The fourth term of 2026 Intern rotations have started 🩺

Our Term 4 Road to Rural (R2R) Interns are heading off to start their rural placements for ten weeks to experience what life is like for Rural Generalists.

The R2R Intern rotations provide junior doctors with a unique opportunity to experience rural medicine in general practice and the local hospital, and a chance for the interns to connect with the local community. More than just another rotation, the R2R Intern program is an immersion into real life rural medicine.

All the best for a great rural experience!

📸 Pictured at orientation:
Front row L-R: Dr Fatemeh Agah (Kapunda), Dr Eisen Lin (Gumeracha), Dr Kelly Hou (Angaston), Dr Jessica Vo (Clare)

Back row L-R: Dr Tim Kelly (GP Facilitator), Dr Sebastian Baker (Jamestown), Dr Ravneet Tuteja (Murray Bridge), Dr Grace Hollow (Waikerie), Dr Lisa Koo (GP Facilitator)

Not pictured: Dr Samuel Kow (Crystal Brook), Dr Fi Fraser (Mannum)

👉 Find out more: https://ruraldoc.com.au/programs/r2r-intern-program/

19/08/2026

📣 Rural GP/RG Partner Grants open for application

RDWA recognises the important role the partners of resident rural GPs, RGs and GP Registrars have in supporting them to deliver general practice and hospital services in rural South Australia.

Our Rural GP/RG Partner Grant enables partners to apply for funding to pursue personal or business interests to strengthen their connection to the local community through work, business or volunteer activities.

Applications close 9am, Monday 31 August, 2026.

👉 Eligibility, guidelines, apply: https://ruraldoc.com.au/grants/rural-gp-partner-grant/

18/08/2026

📣 Rural high school students - are you applying to study medicine in 2027?

Now that you've sat the UCAT, it's time to prepare for the medical interview.

Apply now for RDWA's R2R Medicine Medical Interview Skills training package to help you prepare. Delivered by our training parter, MedEntry , you will:

✅ Learn the questions
✅ Develop the right strategies
✅ Practice in a simulated mock interview
✅ Get feedback from experts
✅ Participate in a live online strategy workshop

👉 Check your eligibility and apply here: https://ruraldoc.com.au/programs/medical-interview-skills/

11/08/2026

📣 Upcoming CPD Workshop: Palliative Care, Geriatric Care and Difficult Consultations

Rural South Australian doctors on a pre-Fellowship or Fellowship pathway are invited to join our next Towards Fellowship Program (TFP) quarterly professional development workshop.

🗓 Saturday 12 September, 2026
🕘 9am – 4pm
📍 Gilbert Suite, Adelaide Convention Centre

Program includes:
✔ Clinical update in Palliative Care with Dr Christine Drummond, Palliative Medicine Specialist

✔ Exploring symptoms and contemporary management of frailty in older patients with Dr Rober Culver, Geriatrician

✔ Difficult consultations workshop to build confidence, strengthen communication and consulting techniques with Dr Cate Howell, General Practitioner

Accredited for Educational Activity and Reviewing Performance CPD.

👉 More info and registration: https://ruraldoc.com.au/programs/towards-fellowship-program/

📸 Participants at the TFP Dermatology workshop, February 2026

10/08/2026

🏆 Join us for the inaugural R2R Medicine Cup!

This fast-paced, fun and practical event is for medical students to find out about rural medicine.

Students will compete in teams through emergency-focussed clinical simulation stations based on common and unusual presentations seen in rural general practice and rural emergency medicine.

Stations will be facilitated by Rural Generalists, with points tallied across the day.

Who will take home the inaugural R2R Medicine Cup - Adelaide University or Flinders University?

Open to:
✅ 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate medical students
✅ 1st or 2nd year postgraduate medical students (Flinders University only)

Get your team together! Spots are limited to 24 students per university.

🗓 Saturday 17 October 2026
📍Hahndorf, South Australia

👉 Register now: https://ruraldoc.com.au/programs/r2r-medicine-cup/

Flinders University Rural Health Society (FURHS)
Adelaide University Rural Health Alliance (AURHA)

05/08/2026

📣 RDWA will be on campus tomorrow at the Flinders Health and Community Services Career Festival '26!

Find out about careers in rural health.

Graduate allied health jobs are available now in rural South Australia, and RDWA can support you to get there.

Come and talk with us about grants and funding available to launch your rural career.

📆 Thursday 6 August
🕒 11am to 2pm
📍Stand 20, The Student Hub, Bedford Park Campus

👉 Find out about more rural health careers: https://ruraldoc.com.au/allied-health-nursing/rural-health-careers/

👉 Search Graduate jobs in rural SA: https://ruraldoc.com.au/current-jobs/

Flinders University
Flinders University Rural Health Society

04/08/2026

📣 South Australian rural origin students – are you sitting the GAMSAT in September?

The September Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT) is getting closer - there's still time to apply for access to learning support through RDWA’s Graduate-Entry GAMSAT Preparation Grant.

By accessing the ACER learning resources through the grant, you'll get the tools and confidence to prepare and perform well for the GAMSAT – a key step toward entry into the Doctor of Medicine program at Flinders University 🩺

If you’re planning to apply for postgraduate medicine at Flinders University in 2027 for the 2028 intake, this support could make all the difference.

👉 More information, eligibility, and apply: https://ruraldoc.com.au/grants/gamsat-preparation-grant/

13/07/2026

📣 EOIs Open - RDWA expanding SAVES Panel

The South Australian Virtual Emergency Service (SAVES) provides overnight emergency medical support to rural hospitals in South Australia, delivered by a panel of highly skilled rural GP/RGs experienced in rural emergency medicine.

With the support of the Regional Local Health Networks, RDWA is expanding our panel of SAVES doctors.

➡️ We're inviting expressions of interest from Fellowed rural generalists with emergency medicine experience to join our panel on a full-time, part-time or casual basis.

SAVES operates from the RDWA office in Adelaide from 7pm to 7am every night of the week, with one doctor rostered from 7:00pm to 7:00am and a second doctor from 7:00pm to 1:00am.

Since its inception in 2017, SAVES continues to play a vital role in supporting rural emergency departments by providing timely specialist advice and emergency assessment via telehealth, servicing 33 hospitals in rural South Australia.

Want to know more about joining the SAVES panel?

👉 Contact Dr Tim Kelly, Executive Director Medical Services, at [email protected]

👉 Find out more about SAVES: https://ruraldoc.com.au/saves/

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