Associate Professor Riitta Partanen is the current Director of the University of Queensland's Rural Clinical School and is also a General Practitioner in the Hervey Bay area. Riitta has also held a number of leadership roles across the university including being the inaugural director of the Hervey Bay Clinical School since 2005 and currently has research interests in Medical Education, Rural Medical Workforce, and Rural health and General practice issues. Dr. Partanen completed her Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Queensland and went on to obtain her Fellowship in General Practice with the RACGP, as well as completing a Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with the RACOG.

I want to thank Riitta for her giving her time to have this conversation and for sharing her own career path as well for providing her insights on the challenges facing rural health and the ways in which the University of Queensland is investing in end-to-end medical education through the new Regional Medical Pathway (RMP) as part of the MD program.

I hope you enjoy the conversation!

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

02:00 Riitta's career

05:15 Health demographics of the regions

07:30 General Practice

14:30 Choosing the GP specialty

18:55 Career Flexibility & Academics

20:45 Rural Workforce Shortages

24:30 Workforce Retention Strategies

30:00 UQ's end-to-end Medical Training Ethos & RMP

35:10 The GP Specialty Training Pathway

45:12 Advice to students and interns on GP placement

49:00 Thank you!

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