Rural internships for final year students: clinical experience, education and workforce

Prof Tarun Sen Gupta

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, wrote the first draft, collected data

position: Director of medical education and head, general practice and rural medicine

Australia

Tarun Sen Gupta is Professor of Health Professional Education and Head of the Townsville Clinical School at the James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry, North Queensland, Australia. He was in rural practice in Richmond, north-west Queensland from 1987-1993, and has worked in rural medical education since 1993. He is a Rural Generalist Training Adviser for Queensland's Rural Generalist Pathway, a board member of the Rural Doctors Association of Queensland and the Rural Doctors Foundation, and Chair of the ACRRM Assessment Committee.

Richard Muray

qualifications: MPHTM

contribution: collected data, contributed to drafts

position: Dean

Angus McDonell

qualifications: MBBS

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Resident medical officer

Australia

Research interests: Retrieval medicine, prehospital care, trauma care

A/Prof Brad Murphy

qualifications: MBBS

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Registrar, Remote Vocational Training Scheme

Australia

I am a graduate of the James Cook University School of Medicine with a passionate interest in Indigenous, Veterans and Rural Health. Former Councillor/Director of the RACGP for 6 years and Founder of the National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. Now in private practice in Bundaberg.

Aileen Underhill

qualifications: MBBS

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Resident medical officer

Australia

2nd year medical student in Townsville, interested in being a rural GP. Involved with student rural health clubs.