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Taste of country life: A privilege to learn the ropes in rural New Zealand
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Taste of country life: A privilege to learn the ropes in rural New Zealand
Thursday 14 December 2017, 12:04 PM
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It has been 10 years since the University of Otago first gave fifth-year medical students the option of spending a year training in rural communities. Liane Topham-Kindley catches up with three of the original six students, to find out how this one year has influenced their medical careers Rotorua GP Rachel Lynskey took a leap of faith as a fifth-year medical student in 2007, as one of the first six students to undertake the University of Otago's year-long Rural Medical Immersion Pro-gramme.
Dr Lynskey has no regrets. She says the experience kept her in medicine, and exposed her to the world of small hospitals and rural general practice, w, Elizabeth Ryan, Time out for family - Liz Ryan with baby Piata, Lorcan (5), Maeve (3) and John