As a city boy, Dr Aaron Hawkins didn’t imagine he’d one day be practicing rural medicine in North West Tasmania. But, after living in Sydney and Brisbane, studying at the University of Queensland and practising at Logan Hospital, he took a leap of faith for a change of scenery, cooler weather and to experience living in a smaller town with a quieter pace. As Aaron now knows, Smithton in North West Tasmania might be peaceful, but life as a rural generalist is an adventure.

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Fellows of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine have been recognised for their contributions to medical education, rural general practice and community in the Australia Day 2019 Honors list.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) welcomes Minister for Regional Services Senator Bridget McKenzie’s announcement to continue funding programs providing vital support for Rural Generalist practice.

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The announcement of an additional $318 million to directly benefit General Practitioners and Rural Generalists to support healthy communities is welcomed by the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM).

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ACRRM acknowledges the release of the Third Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation, in which the College made recommendations to appropriately consider people living in rural and remote communities.

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The Australian College of Rural and Rural Medicine (ACRRM) congratulates the Commonwealth Government on its landmark support for caring for people with eating disorders but seeks assurance that rural communities will have access to these services.

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ACRRM joins Queensland's peak doctor groups to demand decisive action from the Queensland government on mental health mandatory reporting laws. Read the joint press release here.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) supports the bill introduced in Parliament on Monday calling for urgent medical treatment for children and adults living on Manus and Nauru.

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ACRRM president A/Prof Ewen McPhee attended an Australian-first summit to address the rural medical specialist shortage this week, bringing the College’s 20-plus years of experience training doctors to work and stay in rural and remote areas to the conversation.

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After over two decades of service as a General Practice Principal in Victorian town Ararat, GP Anaesthetist/Obstetrician Dr Michael Connellan has been awarded with a Distinguished Service Award for making a significant contribution to his community and rural practice.

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More than 30 years of dedicated service as a GP Obstetrician to the community of Cowra in central-west NSW - as well as to teaching and training the next generation of rural doctors - has seen Dr Louise Baker receive the prestigious ACRRM-RDAA Peter Graham ‘Cohuna’ Award for 2018.

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Dr Bryce Nicol, a dedicated rural doctor who is providing crucial medical services to the Queensland community of Winton and has worked hard to rebuild the doctor workforce in the town, has received the ACRRM-RDAA Rural Registrar of the Year Award for 2018.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) would like to extend its thanks to Life Fellow Dr Mark Craig for his generous donation in creating a bursary to further the professional development of College staff.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) has joined other stakeholders in urging all political parties to commit to take action to improve prevention and treatment of rheumatic heart disease.

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Thank you to UN Medical Director Dr Jillann Farmer for her rousing appearance at RMA18 today. Her presentation on self-discovery and confronting your own bias was well received by our 750+ delegates, with many feeling the resonance of her words.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) has joined other medical Colleges and stakeholders in calling on the Australian Government to urgently transfer refugee and asylum seeker children and their families from Nauru to Australia for appropriate medical assessment and treatment.

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Dr Ewen McPhee, GP Obstetrician, to lead the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.

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For Dr Tarun Patel, Australia’s ‘Top End’ is a long way from Auckland, New Zealand, where he spent much of his childhood. Yet training as a General Practitioner in the Northern Territory has driven him to try things out of his comfort zone - including recent GP training placements in remote Australia.

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On R U OK? Day 2018, the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) asks all its members to consider their mental well-being and that of their colleagues and if they see need, take some positive action.

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One of the United Nations' most senior doctors has been announced as a keynote speaker at this year's Rural Medicine Australia (RMA18) conference, to be held in Darwin in October.

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