Flinders will celebrate 20 years of making a difference to Riverland communities this Friday at a special event marking two decades of the Parallel Riverland Rural Communities Curriculum (PRCC).
The PRCC, run by Flinders Rural Health South Australia (formerly Flinders University Rural Clinical School or FURCS), was created as an extension of the Flinders Rural Health unit.
It is the result of a pioneering approach towards longitudinal Community based Medical Education (CBME) that has fostered growth and development to a point where it now encompasses not only medical education, but also nursing and health sciences education, cutting-edge research, and clinical services across rural and regional South Australia.
The curriculum is one of the key ways in which Flinders Rural Health SA continues to empower regional communities through leadership, collaboration, capacity-building and innovative community-based health education, research and clinical service.
The 20-year celebration, at Twenty Third Street Distillery, Renmark, will be attended by past and present Riverland PRCC students, plus past and present clinicians, teachers and community members who have been involved in the program
More about Flinders Rural Health SA (FRHSA)
FRHSA aims to serve both Flinders University and the rural and remote communities of South Australia through:
- high quality medical and health care education
- research, and
- clinical and health care service for and in rural communities.
Funded by the Australian Goverbment as part of a nationwide strategy to improve the health of Australians living in rural and remote areas, it encompasses activities including: the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum (PRCC), and delivers other rural clinical placements in the MD, Nursing and Allied Health programs.
Flinders Rural Health SA’s staff live and work in these rural and remote communities.