Taste of country life: A privilege to learn the ropes in rural New Zealand

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.