13.4 Formal teaching to develop clinical courage in ACRRM Registrars
Tracks
Crown Ballroom 3C
| Friday, October 24, 2025 |
| 2:10 PM - 2:40 PM |
| Crown Ballroom 3C |
Details
Format: Practical workshop (60-minute)
Speaker
Prof Lucie Walters
Director Adelaide Rural Clinical School
Adelaide Rural Clinical School
Formal teaching to develop clinical courage in ACRRM Registrars
2:10 PM - 3:15 PMAbstract Overview
Background
Clinical courage describes the ability of rural generalists to work at the full extent of their scope in order to provide their patients with access to clinical care not otherwise available in their rural locations. This adaptive expertise and responsiveness to community is found in experienced rural doctors who are committed to remain in rural practice.
Our current research project seeks to explore how clinical courage develops in doctors-in-training and how it can be strengthened by different components of rural training including work-integrated learning and formal rural curricula activities. We are interviewing current, past and future registrars about how they developed their clinical courage.
Workshop participants will:
• Share their experiences of learning clinical courage from their peers and mentors
• Discover the preliminary results from our study
• Consider learning and teaching techniques to build clinical courage
• Provide input into effective ways of developing clinical courage
Clinical courage describes the ability of rural generalists to work at the full extent of their scope in order to provide their patients with access to clinical care not otherwise available in their rural locations. This adaptive expertise and responsiveness to community is found in experienced rural doctors who are committed to remain in rural practice.
Our current research project seeks to explore how clinical courage develops in doctors-in-training and how it can be strengthened by different components of rural training including work-integrated learning and formal rural curricula activities. We are interviewing current, past and future registrars about how they developed their clinical courage.
Workshop participants will:
• Share their experiences of learning clinical courage from their peers and mentors
• Discover the preliminary results from our study
• Consider learning and teaching techniques to build clinical courage
• Provide input into effective ways of developing clinical courage
Biography
Lucie Walters Director of Adelaide Rural Clinical School. She is a rural generalist who has worked clinically in Mount Gambier since 1993. Her experience in rural medical educational leadership spans across the continuum from medical student to postgraduate special skills training. Her research interests include rural medicine, including clinical courage, and rural health systems.
