Rural Clinical School of Western Australia

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Rural Clinical School of Western Australia
Location
Western Australia Australia
Coordinates	33°39′10″S 115°20′19″E / 33.652646°S 115.338652°E / -33.652646; 115.338652
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Established	2002

The Rural Clinical School of Western Australia (RCSWA) is a Commonwealth-funded program intended to increase the number of medical graduates interested in rural careers. The school is part of the network of rural clinical schools across Australia funded by the same federal Department of Health and Ageing workforce program. It places medical students in their penultimate clinical year for an entire academic year in rural towns throughout Western Australia. Certain Rural Clinical Schools also allow students to continue on to complete their final year.

In 2007, it became the first of Australian RCSs to enter a public-private university partnership. It is a collaboration between its founder, the University of Western Australia, and the University of Notre Dame Australia.

The students represent 25% of third year UWA and third year UNDA medical undergraduates.