The Matagouri Club

University of Otago Undergraduate rural health club, Dunedin

Established by Dr Pat Farry to address student issues related to rural health

•Medicine•Physiotherapy•Pharmacy•Dentistry•Nursing

Our goals:

1)Promote opportunities in rural health and assist students interested in rural health into professional programmes- visits to rural secondary schools and mentoring

2) Provide information to students in health professional courses about rural health

- rural health week- information on voluntary bonding and

rural hospital programmes/GP training- meetings with people working rurally

3) Expose interested students to rural health- skills weekends- hospital visits (road trips)- rural health week

4) Provide a social club with connections to students in other health professional courses

Email: matagoruri@gmail.comWebsite: matagouri.otago.ac.nz

Christchurch Rural Health Interest Group

countryscrubs@gmail.com

Who we are & our aims:

Medical and Nursing students in Christchurch

Aims: To promote Rural Health through fun

recreational events Teach students skills in Rural &

Wilderness Emergency Medicine Provide information regarding rural

health careers

Annual Events Rural and Emergency Wilderness

Medicine Skills weekend Quiz Night Barn Dance Ski Trip Rural Health professional

presentations

Emergency Medicine Scenarios

Car crash Burns

Hypothermia

Extraction of a fallen climber