Profiles And Contributions To This Article

Why community members want to participate in the selection of students into medical school

qualifications: BHlthSc (Hons)

contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, collected data, input data, wrote the first draft

position: Lecturer

Dr David Rosenthal

qualifications: FACCRM

contribution: original concept, designed the project, wrote the first draft

position: Senior lecturer

Australia

David Rosenthal - Previously Associate Professor in Rural Medical Education at Flinders University of SA is resident in the Riverland of South Australia and worked closely with the resident cohort of year 3 students permanently living in the Riverland undertaking the penultimate year of their post graduate entry medical course. He has been in rural general practice in Renmark for 44 years and has also been medicopolitically active over the past 30 years. He is currently Director of Medical Services at Riverland General Hospital Berri South Australia.