{"id":470,"date":"2021-11-19T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T01:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/?p=470"},"modified":"2021-11-19T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T01:44:11","slug":"get-to-know-your-college-alen-pasalic-md-rural-stream-on-placement-in-naracoorte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/2021\/11\/19\/get-to-know-your-college-alen-pasalic-md-rural-stream-on-placement-in-naracoorte\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know your College: Alen Pasalic, MD Rural Stream, on placement in Naracoorte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alen Pasalic, MD Rural Stream student, reflects on his year-long placement in Naracoorte SA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reflecting back on my year in Naracoorte, I\u2019m really encouraged by the amount I have grown, both in a clinical setting but also in my awareness of rural practice. Prior to this year I knew very little about what it meant to work in a small town as a doctor; I thought that the GPs worked similarly to their metro-based counterparts and that more difficult presentations outside their scope required referrals to a larger town.<\/p>\n

While in some aspects this was the case, the reality of what it means to be a rural generalist is far greater than what I anticipated \u2013 I grew to appreciate that even despite the existence of health discrepancies in rural settings, the efforts made by rural doctors is a growing and valuable resource that is continuously bridging this gap.<\/p>\n

My future aspirations are to be a cardiologist and my exposure this year has encouraged me to pursue providing these services to rural communities. I see a tremendous need and growing burden that I would love to one day address.<\/p>\n

Through the clinical exposure I have received in Naracoorte, I have been able to grow in my clinical reasoning and confidence when approaching procedures\/patients. Admittedly, the complexities of presentations I\u2019ve seen here have been less than what others have seen; however, the active involvement I\u2019ve had with patients has allowed me to develop as well as make me feel as though I\u2019m making a genuine difference.<\/p>\n

Additionally, I have been absorbed by the Naracoorte community and welcomed wholeheartedly. This has made me feel as though I\u2019m more than \u201cjust a medical student,\u201d but rather a valuable member of the team and community.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alongside the involvement I have had in Naracoorte, the support and services provided to me by the Mt Gambier Rural Clinical School (RCS) have far exceeded any expectations I had. The staff\u2019s constant dedication towards teaching and providing us with the best clinical experience has heavily influenced my development into a future doctor. I can confidently say that without the support of the staff, my year wouldn\u2019t have been the same \u2013 they\u2019re all amazing.<\/p>\n

Being in a rural setting was, globally, an emotional rollercoaster \u2013 there were times in the year that were amazing, and other points that were incredibly difficult; however, reflecting back on it all I believe that my time here has allowed to develop positively towards the future doctor that I want to be.<\/p>\n

I would do it all again and would encourage others to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alen Pasalic, MD Rural Stream student, reflects on his year-long placement in Naracoorte SA Reflecting back on my year in Naracoorte, I\u2019m really encouraged by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1450,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2494,341,500,391,675,499,1364,340,1667,493,525,478,460,458],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-alen-pasalic","tag-college-of-medicine-and-public-health","tag-flinders","tag-flinders-md","tag-flinders-medical-student-society","tag-flinders-nt","tag-flinders-rural-and-remote-health","tag-flinders-university","tag-flinders-university-rural-and-remote-health-sa-nt","tag-flinders-university-rural-health-sa","tag-nt-news","tag-rural-and-remote-health","tag-south-australia-college-of-medicine-and-public-health","tag-study-at-flinders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}