The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) supports the bill introduced in Parliament on Monday calling for urgent medical treatment for children and adults living on Manus and Nauru.

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ACRRM president A/Prof Ewen McPhee attended an Australian-first summit to address the rural medical specialist shortage this week, bringing the College’s 20-plus years of experience training doctors to work and stay in rural and remote areas to the conversation.

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After over two decades of service as a General Practice Principal in Victorian town Ararat, GP Anaesthetist/Obstetrician Dr Michael Connellan has been awarded with a Distinguished Service Award for making a significant contribution to his community and rural practice.

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More than 30 years of dedicated service as a GP Obstetrician to the community of Cowra in central-west NSW - as well as to teaching and training the next generation of rural doctors - has seen Dr Louise Baker receive the prestigious ACRRM-RDAA Peter Graham ‘Cohuna’ Award for 2018.

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Dr Bryce Nicol, a dedicated rural doctor who is providing crucial medical services to the Queensland community of Winton and has worked hard to rebuild the doctor workforce in the town, has received the ACRRM-RDAA Rural Registrar of the Year Award for 2018.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) would like to extend its thanks to Life Fellow Dr Mark Craig for his generous donation in creating a bursary to further the professional development of College staff.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) has joined other stakeholders in urging all political parties to commit to take action to improve prevention and treatment of rheumatic heart disease.

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Thank you to UN Medical Director Dr Jillann Farmer for her rousing appearance at RMA18 today. Her presentation on self-discovery and confronting your own bias was well received by our 750+ delegates, with many feeling the resonance of her words.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) has joined other medical Colleges and stakeholders in calling on the Australian Government to urgently transfer refugee and asylum seeker children and their families from Nauru to Australia for appropriate medical assessment and treatment.

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Dr Ewen McPhee, GP Obstetrician, to lead the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.

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For Dr Tarun Patel, Australia’s ‘Top End’ is a long way from Auckland, New Zealand, where he spent much of his childhood. Yet training as a General Practitioner in the Northern Territory has driven him to try things out of his comfort zone - including recent GP training placements in remote Australia.

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On R U OK? Day 2018, the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) asks all its members to consider their mental well-being and that of their colleagues and if they see need, take some positive action.

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One of the United Nations' most senior doctors has been announced as a keynote speaker at this year's Rural Medicine Australia (RMA18) conference, to be held in Darwin in October.

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For Dr Sarah Goddard, Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory has always been called home, and having the opportunity to move back to work as a GP, surrounded by family and well-known faces, has been a dream come true.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) will be holding elections for the position of President this month, with rural generalist Dr Michael Beckoff one of two candidates vying for the top spot.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) will be holding elections for the position of President this month, with rural generalist Dr Ewen McPhee one of two candidates nominating for this important role.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) will be holding elections for the position of President this month, with two candidates vying for the top spot.

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As a final-year medical student from NSW and budding future rural generalist, Jaffly Chen believes that the challenges associated with a career in rural medicine make for a better doctor overall.

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The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA), National Farmers Federation (NFF), the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) have strongly welcomed the Coalition Government's announcement this week to provide additional financial support to drought-affected farming families, including $11.4 million in mental health support initiatives.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) says that recent publicity about the impact of declining rural maternity services in Queensland highlights a broader national issue which impacts significantly on the health and wellbeing of rural women and their families.

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