About Dr Brendan Carrigan

Dr Brendan Carrigan is an experienced Rural Generalist clinician and educator who has a passion for delivery of evidence based medical education in rural areas. He is a Rural Generalist Obstetrician who began his rural career in Kingaroy in 2013. From 2015, Dr Carrigan was the Director of Clinical Training. He drove the expansion and innovation of the Griffith University medical student and prevocational training programs as well as embedding simulation into health professional education. In recognition of Dr Carrigan’s work he was awarded the Confederation of Postgraduate Medical Education Councils - Queensland Division Clinical Educator of the Year in 2019. 

Dr Carrigan was appointed the Medical Lead of the Griffith University Year 3 Longlook program in 2020 where he leads a team of educators delivering rural longitudinal clerkships across hospitals in the Darling Downs, Beaudesert and Gympie. He maintains clinical practice, working part time as a Senior Medical Officer at Dalby Hospital and a General Practitioner with Special interest in Gynaecology at Toowoomba Hospital. Dr Carrigan also holds representative roles as the General Practitioner member of the Prevocational Medical Accreditation Queensland Accreditation committee and the Supervisor member of Queensland Rural Medical Education.

Contact: qld@acrrm.org.au