Study and Stay Rural

The Postgraduate SA Rural Medical Program aims to develop the elements of knowledge, understanding and skill central to varied areas of medical practice, producing graduates well prepared to act as hospital interns and with the potential to follow a full range of medical specialties in subsequent training. 

Students will live and study years 1 and 2 of the MD in the Riverland or Mount Gambier in the Greater Green Triangle. Later, in years 3 and 4, students will study in either the Hills Mallee Fleurieu, the Barossa Valley, the Riverland or Greater Green Triangle region. 

What Makes the Flinder’s Program Unique?

Flinders University is a leader in providing medical education and established the first South Australian Rural Clinical School in Renmark in 1997. The SARM Program is the first end to end rural medical program in South Australia. That means, it is the first medical program that students can study their entire degree outside of metropolitan Adelaide.

https://www.flinders.edu.au/flinders-rural-and-remote-health-sa/sarmp

FMSS in the SARM Program (2025)

In 2025, the student body will be able to elect a 1st-Year SARM Program representative during our Feb/March Junior Elections! This role will serve in our Advocacy team.

We endeavour to make as many of our programs and offerings available to students out in the regions including mentorship, peer teaching and advocacy.

Finders University Rural Health Society

FURHS is a unique society that offers you an opportunity to network and socialise cross faculty and across university. We host a range of social and formal events aimed to give you a taste of all the fantastic opportunities and lifestyle rural Australia has to offer and we give you the opportunity to meet some amazing people.

FURHS is proud to be one of the amazing South Australian Rural Health Clubs. We work closely with the NRHSN and the RDWA to promote rural health and to offer you some amazing events:

  • Royal Flying Doctor Service Flights

  • Wilderness Medicine Evening

  • Interstate Conferences

  • Rural High School Visits

  • Indigenous Community Engagement Activities

  • Allied Health Trip

  • Campfire

Learn more about FURHS here: https://nrhsn.org.au/club/furhs/

FMSS acknowledge the land that we meet and study on as being the traditional lands of the Kaurna (SA) and Larrakia (NT) people since time immemorial and that they never ceded sovereignty. We pay our respects to past, present and emerging Kaurna and Larrakia elders and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. We also acknowledge the traditional custodians of all other Nations where Flinders students study and live.