Rural Road to Health

Dr Sankha Randenikumara , a family doctor from Sri Lanka.  He is also the Young doctor representative for WONCA, founder of Sri Lankan Medical Associations Young members forum, and honorary joint secretary of the Palliative and End of Life Care task force.   Contact via: sankha_rk@hotmail.com   Infromation about the WONCA World Conference in Sydney .  Overview of episode: 00.50  Starting as a rura...

Dr Mercy Wanjala , a family medicine doctor based in Kenya, she is currently an executive member of AfroPHC. She runs a monthly workshop with AfroPHC focusing on health policy.   Mercy is also the education lead on the Rural WONCA executive and Rural Seeds Ambassador for Africa and member of the executive of the YDM AfriWON. Overview of episode: 01.00  Mercy's journey into rural health 03.45  Deve...

Welcome to Top Tips for Rural Health Careers! Our speakers share their top tips for people thinking about careers in rural health. Learn from their experience and insight. Sharing their 3 top tips are: Sadie Lavell Caferkey  00.45 Tariq Jagnarine  02.20 Pippa Kensit  03.30 Brooke Mackie  04.25 Amber Wheatley  05.45 Share these insights with your students and colleagues. If you have suggestions for...

Dr Amber Wheatley is a family doctor working in the British Virgin Islands.  She is a rural advocate, writer and yoga instructor.   Dr Wheatley talks about her experiences working on BVI, specific issues faced by the population, challenges during COVID 19 and bush medicine.  Contact her via email at vashwheatley@gmail.com   00.15  Intro and Amber's journey into rural medicine 02.15  Rural Track, t...

Welcom to Rural Policy Bites! Todays topic is: Rural Proofing What is rural proofing? Why rural proof? Who should be responsible for rural proofing? FInd out more about rural proofing here:  UK Rural Proofing Guidance  EU Rural Observatory https://ruralengland.org/rural-proofing-for-health-toolkit/ Please share your thoughts and feedback at  ruralroadtohealth@gmail.com or at https://theruralroadto...

Part 2 00.45 - The perception of rural medicine among students 05.30 - Social and family factors and rural medicine 10.20 - Other challenges when going into rural medicine 12.15 - Rural development and recruitment  16.15 - Getting communities involved in rural placements 21.10 - Support for students, rural health clubs 25.05 -  Support during post graduate training 27.40 - Developing rural pathway...

Pippa Kensit is the Future Workforce Program Lead, and more recently Clinical Advisor at NSW Rural Doctors Network (RDN). She has completed a Bachelor of Nursing and a dual Masters in International Public Health and Health Management. In 2021 she was accepted to Medicine at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney.  She has extensive experience in rural advocacy roles and rural health clubs in Austral...

Dr Tariq Jagnarine is a family medicine doctor living and working in Guyana, he has experience in working with indigenous communities.  He is also the current Programme manager of the national AIDS Programme secretariat.  In this episode we will talk about providing healthcare for indigenous communities, HIV/AIDS prevention, and rural health challenges in Guyana. To contact Dr Tariq Jagnarine: tar...

Dr Karine Kersting Puls in collaboration with Rural Seeds is launching the Mentor Mentee Programme 2.0. This is a great opportunity for students and young health professionals looking to develop their rural health careers.  It is also an opportunity for more experienced rural health professionals to mentor the next generation.  Learn more about this innovative virtual mentoring programme for rural...

My reflections on a recent OECD workshop about remote working and how this might affect rural areas.    "The New Geography of Remote Working"   The implications of remote working   If hearing this kind or short review/reflection is interesting let me know via the feedback tab .  

Sadie Lavelle Cafferkey  is a registered nurse working on Achill Island in the Republic of Ireland. She is currently doing a PhD with Trinity College Dublin.  Her project is looking at developing integrated nurse led addiction services for rural communities.   LinkedIn   Twitter   Music by Olexy from Pixabay

Learn about the host of the Rural Road to Health - Dr Veronika Rasic https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronika-rasic-6b203b62  WONCA - https://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/ Rural WONCA - https://ruralwonca.org/ Rural Seeds  -  https://www.ruralseeds.net/   If you have a rural story that you want to share on the podcast, please contact me via  https://theruralroadtohealth.blog/

Welcome! A brief introduction to the Rural Road to Health. For anyone interested in discovering more about rural health. Host: Dr Veronika Rasic MD, MRCGP (2019)