Education
Grandrounds, multi-disciplinary education sessions are held weekly within MICRRH..
Overview
Mount Isa Centre for Rural & Remote Health (MICRRH)offers education programs in varied disciplines ranging from medical education to Indigenous health worker education.
Please Visit relevant discipline webpages for more details. Current course offerings can be found in Courses Offered section.
Mount Isa Centre for Rural & Remote Health (MICRRH) also coordinates medical, nursing and allied health (including pharmacy) student placements within the Mount Isa Health District Service, as detailed below.
Student Placements
If you are considering a placement within the Mt Isa Health District Service, your first point of contact will be a Student Placement Coordinator.
Currently Louis Peachey fills the role of the Placement Coordintor for Medicine and Pharmacy
while Bev Black the role of the Placement Coodinator for Nursing.Student Placement Coordinator will be able to provide you with information such as:
- Clinical and community attachment opportunities within the district.
- MICRRH Student Accommodation Facilities
- Education opportunities
- Resources that are availabe
Student Orientation and Ongoing Support
The Mount Isa Centre for Rural and Remote Health is committed to providing appropriate orientation to all students on placement within the district.
Nursing students that are doing community placements may not be fully orientated, as they will receive their own orientation with their community preceptor. The orientation includes:
- MICRRH facility tour
- Yacca Library tour
- Hospital site tour
- Clinical Placement Details distributed
- Cultural Awareness (Medicine & Allied Health disciplines inclusive)
- Skills Stations (Medicine & Allied Health disciplines inclusive)
- Delivery to clinical placements (Nursing)
- Debriefing sessions are conducted once a week for all nursing students.
- Support offered by the Nursing Student Attachment Coordinator with student inquiries regarding University policy.
- Advice on culturally sensitive issues.
