Shadow Minister for Regional Education, Mr Darren Chester MP, visited Charles Sturt University in Orange on Monday 29 January, along with the NSW Shadow Minister for Regional Transport and Roads from the NSW Upper House, Mr Sam Farraway MLC.

They met with students and senior staff from Charles Sturt, including Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Renée Leon, Dean of the Charles Sturt School of Rural Medicine (SRM) Professor Lesley Forster, Associate Head of School and Professor in Medicine Damien Limberger, and Senior Lecturer in Physiology within the Charles Sturt School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences Doctor James Wickham.

Mr Chester and Mr Farraway were led on a tour of some of the latest, state-of-the-art health facilities the University has to offer at the Charles Sturt School of Rural Medicine and School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences.

The Charles Sturt School of Rural Medicine is now in its fourth year of operation. Its second cohort of students commenced their third-year work placements also on Monday 29 January, in one of the nine Charles Sturt School of Rural Medicine’s regional clinical schools which span throughout NSW and extend into country Victoria.

For more information on the Charles Sturt School of Rural Medicine’s Doctor of Medicine visit the Charles Sturt website here.

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