About the hubs

The Monash Regional Training Hubs work to improve career opportunities for regional medical students and junior doctors and support specialist post graduate pathways and staff retention for healthcare providers in Gippsland and North West Victoria. With two separate hubs in Gippsland and North West Victoria, our dedicated teams support graduate pathways and fulfilling training opportunities for the next generation of rural health professionals.

We offer career counselling and support, mentoring, research development opportunities as well as networking to help junior doctors and medical students in the early stages of their career.

Regional Training Hub network

Our Monash Regional training hubs are part of a network of 26 regional medical training hubs developed through the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training (RHMT) program. The program is designed to support high-quality rural health training and address the gaps in the rural and remote health workforce. Through unique training opportunities, medical students have the chance to contribute to the health and wellbeing of rural and regional communities.

Regional training hubs are a component of the Specialist Training Program implemented through the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training (RHMT) program funded by the  Australian Governement department of  Health and Aged Care.

The RHMT program is a long-standing Australian Government initiative which funds the delivery of rural clinical training to medical, nursing, midwifery and allied health students. It supports a network of rural clinical schools, university departments of rural health and dental faculties supporting extended rural placements.

The Monash regional training hub’s objectives are to:

  • Improve coordination of medical training to enable students and junior doctors who want to practise rurally to complete as much of their medical training as possible within regional and rural areas
  • Identify medical students with an interest in practising rurally and support them in accessing networked rural training opportunities at an early stage in their careers
  • Develop regional training capacity by:
    • supporting current clinical training supervisors
    • supporting local medical practitioners to become clinical supervisors
    • assisting health services to obtain accreditation for new training positions
  • Strengthen existing, and develop new, connections with key stakeholders to improve the continuity of training for medical students/trainees within the Hub region
  • Identify regional medical workforce needs and use this information to prioritise the Hub’s activity.