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Passionate medical educator and rural doctor receives prestigious national Award
Oct 28, 2025A Rural Generalist Anaesthetist who has served the Victorian community of Echuca for more than 40 years, trained hundreds of medical students and junior doctors, and contributed enormously to the work of multiple rural health organisations, has received the highly coveted ACRRM-RDAA Peter Graham ‘Cohuna’ Award for 2025. -
Three Rural Generalists collect the ACRRM Distinguished Service Award
Oct 25, 2025Three outstanding ACRRM members have been honoured with the College’s Distinguished Service Award at the Rural Medicine Australia 25 conference in Boorloo/Perth. -
Groundbreaking research earns Dr Revathy Carnagarin National Rural Health Research Award
Oct 25, 2025Groundbreaking research and a passion for better healthcare where it is most needed, have earned Dr Revathy Carnagarin national recognition, with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) presenting her with the 2025 Rural Health Research Award. -
ACRRM honours Dr Sarah Jane Springer for Outstanding Contribution to First Nations healthcare
Oct 25, 2025Dr Sarah Jane Springer, a proud Wiradjuri woman and Rural Generalist, has been awarded the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) 2025 Outstanding Contribution to First Nations Healthcare Award. -
Suzette Chemello collects ACRRM’s Outstanding Contribution to Rural Practice Management Award
Oct 25, 2025Suzette Chemello has helped transform healthcare in the Kimberley, leading a model of care that keeps patients close to home. Her achievements as practice manager in Kununurra have now been recognised with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) 2025 Outstanding Contribution to Rural Practice Management Award. -
Professor Peter Arvier honoured as ACRRM’s top rural medical educator
Oct 25, 2025Shaping the careers of hundreds of doctors and strengthening rural healthcare across Australia, Tasmania’s Professor Peter Arvier has been honoured with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) 2025 Rural Generalist Medical Educator of the Year Award. -
From Arnhem Land to Tasmania and beyond – Dr Sally Street recognised as ACRRM Rural Generalist of the Year
Oct 25, 2025Rural Generalist obstetrician Dr Sally Street has spent her career serving rural and remote communities, advocating for reform, and mentoring the next generation of doctors. That journey is being recognised with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) 2025 Rural Generalist of the Year Award. -
Dr Carrie Davenport is Australia’s top ACRRM Rural Generalist Registrar
Oct 25, 2025Port Macquarie Rural Generalist registrar Dr Carrie Davenport has been awarded the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) 2025 National Registrar of the Year, recognising her outstanding contribution to rural child health and medical education. -
ACRRM names National Medical Student of the Year
Oct 25, 2025The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) has awarded its 2025 National Medical Student of the Year to Eiryn Twidale, from Kingaroy in Queensland’s South Burnett region. -
Rural women at the heart of healthy communities
Oct 15, 2025On the International Day of Rural Women (15 October), the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) is celebrating the women who keep rural and remote communities thriving — and the Rural Generalists who deliver the care that helps make it possible. -
World Mental Health Day 2025: ACRRM Rural Generalists connecting care and community
Oct 10, 2025On World Mental Health Day (10 October 2025), ACRRM is calling attention to the vital role of Rural Generalists in making mental health care accessible, trusted, and connected. -
Australia’s top rural medical educators recognised in new state awards
Oct 1, 2025The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) has announced the inaugural recipients of its Rural Generalist Medical Educator of the Year state awards, celebrating outstanding educators who are shaping the next generation of doctors working in rural, remote, and First Nations communities. -
ACRRM Rural Generalist of the Year – 2025 state winners
Oct 1, 2025Outstanding doctors who embody the skill, dedication, and community spirit of Rural Generalist Medicine have been recognised with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) 2025 Rural Generalist of the Year state awards. -
Future Rural Generalists recognised with ACRRM Medical Student of the Year state awards
Oct 1, 2025Exceptional medical students showing a clear pathway towards a career as a Rural Generalist have been recognised as the recipients of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) 2025 Medical Student of the Year state awards. -
Rural Generalist registrars celebrated with ACRRM 2025 state awards
Oct 1, 2025Across Australia, Rural Generalist registrars are making their mark in hospitals, clinics, and communities — and six of them have now been honoured with the 2025 Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) Registrar of the Year state awards. -
Roma set to celebrate 20 years of rural generalism
Sep 26, 2025Roma will host a major celebration on 2–3 October as the Queensland Rural Generalist Pathway (QRGP) marks 20 years since its beginnings. Returning to the “spiritual home” of rural generalism in Queensland, this milestone event promises to be both a reunion and a forward-looking gathering. -
Disadvantage in the spotlight at national rural doctor conference
Sep 23, 2025Redressing disadvantage will be a central focus of the national rural doctor conference, Rural Medicine Australia 2025 (RMA25), to be held in Perth this October. -
ACRRM celebrates Rural Generalist Medicine as a new specialist field in Australia
Sep 21, 2025The future of healthcare across the nation’s rural, remote and First Nations communities has taken a positive leap forward today with recognition of Rural Generalist Medicine announced as a new specialty field in Australia. -
Rural Generalist Medicine Officially Recognised as a Medical Specialty in Australia
Sep 21, 2025Today is a milestone day for Rural Generalists (RGs) across the nation, with their profession now formally recognised as a distinct and vital component of Australia’s healthcare system. -
ACRRM Territory Trekker Bursary takes Dr Asferd to NT Conference
Sep 12, 2025The Northern Territory’s first Rural and Remote Medicine Conference kicks off in Garramilla (Darwin) today, and thanks to the ACRRM Territory Trekker Bursary, Dr Asferd Mengesha Woldemicael will be right in the thick of it.