About

A University Department of Rural Health

SQRH has been established to increase rural health training opportunities for nursing, midwifery and allied health students and health professionals in regional, rural and remote communities.

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Communities

Everyone deserves access to high quality health care!

We are developing the health workforce where it is needed most.

Check out our interactive map to learn more about the communities we cover in regional, rural and remote southern Queensland.

Communities in our Region SQRH Health & Wellness Clinic - Toowoomba

Research

Be Part of the Solution

SQRH supports rural health professionals and students to engage in high quality rural health research.

Rural Health Research

Students

Why Go Rural?

diverse clinical experiences,
enhanced cultural capability,
work as part of a team,
experience interprofessional learning,
experience adventures of rural life.

Students Student Supports Accommodation Interprofessional Education & Placements

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Publications

Documents and Reports

2018 - Year in Review

As a new University Department of Rural Health (UDRH), 2018 was a significant year for the establishment of Southern Queensland Rural Health (SQRH).

This Year in Review highlights our major achievements, including:

Through our consortium, delivering clinical placements to over 1,000 students in 27 communities across our footprint;
Southern Queensland Rural Health Interprofessional Education Community of Practice;
Hosting the University of Toronto in Toowoomba and Roma, to deliver world class workshops on Interprofessional Education and Collaboration to over 100 rural health
professionals.

To read the 2018 - Year in Review, please click here.

A Commonwealth-funded University Department of Rural Health

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We acknowledge and pay our respect to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first inhabitants of the nation, and acknowledge Traditional Owners of the lands where our staff and students live, learn and work.

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