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Mak, Donna; Plant, Aileen J. – Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2001
To recruit doctors to rural areas, an Australian scholarship program enables undergraduate medical students to spend 2 weeks each year for 4 years at the same rural location. Case studies illustrate how four such students' participation in trichiasis and diabetic retinopathy screening benefitted the Aboriginal communities in which they worked and…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Case Studies, Clinical Experience, Diabetes