Longlook Program for 2019

1. RURAL
OPPORTUNITIES
For 2019

2. Griffith Rural Stream
 Various locations
 Longitudinal models
Longlook
Rural Research Options
Shortlook
 Rural GP placement
 Rural
selective/electives

3. How do I go Rural?
 Longlook
 Preference DD hospitals or Beaudesert
 Rural GP term
 Request a DD practice (from any of the metro zones)
or Palm Island Community Clinic in 4th year
 Rural GP is also in Longlook
 Rural Specialist and Indigenous Health Selectives
 Contact QRME with your Selective block preferences
 International Selective/Elective
 PNG in 2019

4. Longlook 4th Year – What is it?
 Everyone does Elective in Block 7 wherever you want - we’ll see
you in late February on the Downs for ALL orientation.
 Then either
 Two 14 week Amalgams: GP+Selective & EM+Crit Care, OR
 A Blended year of 28 weeks of these four disciplines integrated,
 In a rural hospital and practice, with lots of patients and small
student numbers, working alongside interns, becoming part of the
team – like an intern, with
 Local and central teaching, at
 Griffith campuses with dedicated Medical Educators, at hospitals with
accommodation, and
 Hub Workshops in Toowoomba at the Darling Downs Clinical Training
Centre, with
 Exam preparation sessions year-round at Hub workshops, and
 Attachments to tertiary public & private hospitals in Toowoomba

5. Griffith postgraduate MD program Year 4
Block 7 8 9 10 11
Metro term-
based
rotations
General
Practice
Elective Emergency
Medicine
Critical
care/Ortho
Selective Exams
Longlook
Block 7 8 9 10 11
Blended
Longlook
Elective
– all
Longlook
students
General Practice
Emergency Medicine
Anaesthetics/ICU/Retrieval/Ortho (including tertiary
attachments)
Advanced Rural Selective
Exams
Block 7 8 9 10 11
Amalgam
Longlook
Elective Emergency Medicine
Anaesthetics/ICU/Retrieval/
Ortho
General Practice
Your Selective
Exams

6. Why go to the Darling Downs?
 Longlook students live in large rural towns & have no
academic disadvantage.
 They get more clinical opportunities particularly
procedural work.
 There are smaller student numbers and more
patients/student.
 Local SMO, Registrars, Medical Educators, but small
numbers of interns/JHO
 Subsidised accommodation provided in town at the
hospital campus in Griffith facilities. Longlook
accommodation is generally $50/week including
internet, car parking and utilities (Beaudesert is pro-
rata share rent).

7. Why go to the Darling Downs?
 Flexible rosters prepared by the Longlook
students.
 Additional teaching workshops at DDCTC with
structured OSCE preps
 All 3rd year Longlook students do a multisite
research project resulting in a tech report,
conference presentation &/or publication
 Summer scholarships and research scholarships
available for P/T work.
 Looks good on your CV
 LONGLOOK STUDENTS ARE SOUGHT AFTER
ON THE DOWNS

8. Rural Longlook Yr. 3
Generalist hospitals
Warwick Hospital
Kingaroy Hospital
Dalby Hospital
Stanthorpe Hospital
Beaudesert Hospital

9. Rural Medical
Longlook 2019
Clifton
Cherbourg
Rural Centre

10. Warwick Hospital
 Warwick hospital in the Southern
Downs is the largest rural hospital
hosting Longlook.
 https://www.health.qld.gov.au/service
s/darlingdowns/ddowns-warwick-hs
 It is a full Rural Generalist hospital
– that means procedural obstetrics,
surgery, emergency, medical
imaging, in-patients AND visiting
specialists OPD and operative
sessions.
 Interns and JHO rotate here from
Toowoomba & a FACEM on-staff.
 There’s a large Griffith teaching and
accommodation campus on site.
 A large teaching practice in town
takes students as do nearby rural
practices if you prefer.
 Warwick also hosts Longlook dental
students in their final year.

11. Stathorpe Hospital
 Stanthorpe is a very popular
Rural Generalist hospital with
many past Longlook students on
staff and in the community.
 https://www.health.qld.gov.au/ser
vices/darlingdowns/ddowns-
stanthorpe-hs
 There are 6 condo style
apartments for Longlook
students and a small Clinical
Training Centre
on the hospital grounds
and a local practice nearby
that integrates with
private and public work.
 Many of the RG doctors
are farmers, so bring boots.
 Stanthorpe can get cold…
but there are wineries near.

12. Kingaroy/Cherbourg
 In the South Burnett.
 This is the largest Griffith campus
supporting Cherbourg indigenous
community also.
 Kingaroy is a large Rural Generalist
hospital integrating Longlook
students into the hospital staff.
 https://www.health.qld.gov.au/service
s/darlingdowns/ddowns-kingaroy-hs
 https://www.health.qld.gov.au/service
s/darlingdowns/ddowns-cherbourg-hs
 There is a private specialist hospital
in town also.
 The hospital also takes interns and
JHO.
 It runs a virtual ICU having daily
rounds with TGH ICU

13. Dalby Hospital
 Dalby is the Western Downs centre
and the hub of Longlook
 It is the newest hospital in Longlook
 The Clinical Training Centre is onsite,
but the accommodation is a large
house on the southern fence (with a
dedicated student gate to the hospital)
 It is the hub for local General Practices,
AMS
& rural hospitals and practices at
Chinchilla
and Jandowae nearby
 These are Rural Generalist hospitals with
visiting specialists
 https://www.health.qld.gov.au/services/darli
ngdowns/ddowns-dalby-hs
 https://www.health.qld.gov.au/services/darli
ngdowns/ddowns-chinchilla-hs
 https://www.health.qld.gov.au/services/darli
ngdowns/ddowns-jandowae-hs

14. Jandowae and the Gatehouse
Practice
 Jandowae is a rural town near Dalby with
placements supported from the Dalby hub where
the EM/Crit Care amalgam is placed.
 Jandowae practice (The Gatehouse) and hospital
are integrated under Dr. Luke Dwyer, an RG with
Emergency advanced training.
 This placement suits a rural GP Selective but can
work with a Dalby-based Selective also.
 Accommodation is available locally or back in
Dalby.
 https://www.health.qld.gov.au/services/darlingdow
ns/ddowns-jandowae-hs

15. Beaudesert Hospital &
Community
 This is a popular RG hospital
&
there is a great practice in
town.
 It isn’t really commutable from
the Gold Coast regularly! We
provide supported rental
accommodation in town to
stay a few nights a week.
 While a small centre there is
a dedicated Medical
Educator, they have rotating
Interns/JHO from Logan and
it is a teaching community for
Rural Generalists.
 https://metrosouth.health.qld.
gov.au/beaudesert-hospital

16. Millmerran Hospital
 Millmerran hospital and Medical
Centre placements hub out of
Toowoomba for Anaesthetics,
ICU etc.
 It is a busy rural centre with
many emergency presentations
and road retrievals which
students can become involved
with.
 The practice is well integrated
with the hospital work suiting a
Blended placement.
 Accommodation is in a private
house in town.
 https://www.health.qld.gov.au/ser
vices/darlingdowns/ddowns-
millmerran-hs

17. Oakey Hospital & Town
 Oakey hospital is the first to have
a past Longlook student as
Medical Superintendent – Dr.
Ben Wakefield.
 Accommodation is on-site in the
old Med Super house (Ben and
Eriko don’t live there now).
 Oakey placements include at
Downs Rural Medical, so be
prepared for plenty of skin
cancer surgery.
 All Oakey placements hub out of
St. Vincent’s Toowoomba for
Anaesthetics,
ICU, EM
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/servic
es/darlingdowns/ddowns-oakey-hs

18. Longlook HUB Workshops
 Every month,
everyone
 At Toowoomba Hub
 Sims, Specialist
lectures
 Accommodation
prov.
 Students often stay
on,
 eg. Food and Wine

19. Farm HUB Day

20. Farm HUB Day

21. Longlook Experience
https://youtu.be/jwWPnJ7F3-w

22. Rural Selectives (and Electives)
 Indigenous Health (Palm Is., Goolburri, Goondir,
Cherbourg
 Rural and Remote Medicine
 Specialties in Regional Centres
 Eg. Radiology, Radiotherapy, ENT or Plastic
Surgery, Public Health, Medical Research,
Medical Education, Mental Health, Paediatrics,
Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics,
 General Practice
 International Health (PNG Health Project)

23. QRME
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