Emergency medicine
Aged Care
Surgery
Anaesthetics
Paediatrics
Obstetrics
General practice
Dr Zakaria Shinwari & Dr Nikki Pennifold at Crystal Brook
About Yorke and Northern Rural Doctor Program (YNRDP)
The YNRDP will provide both PGY1 and PGY2 positions across the region from 2025, allowing you access to a continual training pathway on your journey to becoming a rural generalist, or the opportunity to gain rural experience to enhance your clinical knowledge and skills.
The YNRDP provides a broad range of unique clinical experiences in both hospital and primary care settings across the region. We will work with you to tailor an educational experience that suits your individual learning needs and objectives.
The Yorke and Northern Local Health Network (YNLHN) provides a wide range of health care services across the Yorke Peninsula, Southern Flinders, and Mid North areas of South Australia. Health care services include Accident and Emergency, Medical Inpatients, General Practice, Day and Inpatient Surgery, Aboriginal Health, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics, Community Health, Aged Care, Environmental Medicine, Palliative Care, Pediatrics. Trainees will have access to visiting specialties including Plastic Surgery, Cardiology, Orthopedics, Gastroenterology and more.
You will work closely with specialists, general practitioners and rural generalists in a multi-disciplinary team setting, allowing you to develop close relationships with colleagues and gain hands-on clinical experience in a supportive teaching environment. As part of a small cohort, you will benefit from individualised support provided by the Medical Education Team. You will be able to challenge yourself with procedural skills only taught to senior trainees in the metropolitan hospitals. The aim is for prevocational doctors to be able to work with supervised autonomy so that they develop confidence and skills in preparation for independent practice.
For trainees wishing to pursue a career as a rural generalist or as a general practitioner, the YNRDP enables medical training from internship to advanced skills training through to Fellowship with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and/or Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM).
The YNRDP provides you with the chance to take control of your career journey, offering lifelong learning opportunities to advance your clinical skills in your chosen field. Simultaneously, you contribute to the quality of care within your local community.
YNLHN are offering remuneration packages in line with the SA Salaried Medical Officers Award with additional benefits including relocation and travel allowances. Accommodation and utilities will be provided at no cost to the intern for the first 6 months. YNLHN will be offering 3-year contracts with the option for 5-year contracts upon requests. As trainees move into vocational training, we will continue to offer them employment through the single employer model. We will also offer job-share and part-time positions to suit the personal needs of trainees.
View the Discover Yorke and Northern Local Health Network Rural Doctor Program video on the left:
Find out more about the Rural Doctor Program
The Yorke and Northern Local Health Network (YNLHN), fondly known as Yorke and Northern, presents the Rural Doctor Program (RDP), designed to support and encourage junior doctors in pursuing rural generalist training pathways and medical careers within our vibrant region.
Positions
| Training Stage | Rotation | Location |
| Internship | Road to Rural (R2R) rotations from Metro | Clare Medical Centre and Clare Hospital and Health Service Crystal Brook Medical Centre Jamestown Medical Centre |
| Emergency Medicine | Wallaroo Hospital and Health Service Port Pirie Regional Health Service |
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| General Practice / Obstetrics (focus on Women’s Health) |
Kadina Medical Associates | |
| General Practice / Emergency / Procedural (Including anaesthetics, obstetrics, Inpatients) | Crystal Brook Medical Centre and Crystal Brook Hospital or Laura Medical Practice and Laura Hospital |
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| General Practice / Emergency / Anaesthetics (including anaesthetics, obstetrics) |
Goyder’s Line Medical, & Jamestown, Orroroo and Peterborough Hospitals | |
| Emergency / Procedural (inpatients and surgical lists) |
Clare, Burra and Snowtown Hospitals | |
| PGY2+ | Emergency Medicine | Wallaroo Hospital and Health Service or Port Pirie Regional Health Service |
| Medical Inpatients | Wallaroo Hospital and Health Service | |
| Obstetrics | Port Pirie Regional Health Service | |
| General Practice / Obstetrics (focus on Women’s Health) |
Kadina Medical Associates | |
| General Practice / Emergency / Procedural (Including anaesthetics, obstetrics, Inpatients) | Crystal Brook Medical Centre and Crystal Brook Hospital or Laura Medical Practice and Laura Hospital |
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| General Practice / Emergency / Anaesthetics (anaesthetics, obstetrics) |
Goyder’s Line Medical, & Jamestown, Orroroo and Peterborough Hospitals | |
| Emergency / Procedural (inpatients and surgical lists) |
Clare, Burra and Snowtown Hospitals | |
| General Practice / Medical Inpatients | Terrace Clinic and Port Pirie Regional Health Service | |
| General Practice / Aged Care | Moonta Medical Centre or Owen Terrace Medical Centre, Wallaroo |
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| Emergency / Royal Flying Doctor Service (elective option) |
FUNLHN and RFDS, Port Augusta | |
| Surgery (elective option) | FUNLHN, Port Augusta | |
| Paediatrics (elective option) | WCH and YNLHN | |
| Advanced Skills Training | Palliative Care | Lyell McEwin Hospital and Port Pirie and surrounds |
Health facilities
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