More than 200 students from across New England, at the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health (UONDRH) career forum on Tuesday, March 12. Students had also come from Gunnedah, Liverpool Plains, Armidale, and Bingara.
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00:08 We try and do lots of hands-on stuff and lots of really engaging things to sort of get them interested.
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00:23 We're short of health professionals in rural areas, so that's what's really important.
00:27 And so if we can provide some information and pathways and introduce them to what these health professionals do,
00:33 then they're possibly more likely to go and pursue that at uni.
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00:40 The students who think that the marks are too high or sort of aren't really sure what some of the written professions do,
00:48 and so we can give them that information, provide different pathways for them to get into uni.
00:52 And it seems to work because we've been doing this for quite a few years now,
00:56 and I've got ex-students and people who have now graduated who have come to this career school.
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