Welcome to the School of General Practice, Rural & Indigenous Health (SGPRIH)

The School of General Practice, Rural & Indigenous Health (SGPRIH) comprises of the Academic Unit of General Practice and Community Health (AUGPCH) and the Rural Clinical School of the ANU Medical School.

The mission of the SGPRIH is to provide leadership in community and rural health education and research through scholarship, innovation and partnerships to enhance the health of our region in the spirit of equity and social responsibility.

The School’s priority areas are:

Education

To be part of the centre for educational expertise and leadership for General Practice (GP) and Rural Medical education in the ACT and SE NSW region
To develop a strong network of GP and rural medicine teachers
To develop and deliver an innovative, comprehensive and vertically integrated curriculum of GP and rural health education and training through the stages of learning from medical school to continuing professional development
To develop a network of “academic” general practices in the region that has an interest in vertically integrated teaching and/or research

Research

To develop and conduct research programs in the six key priority theme areas:

Child health surveillance
Scholarship and teaching in general practice
Clinical care in the community
Indigenous health care
Social and structural foundations of primary health care
Rural health issues

The School has developed research activities that encompass child health, integrated service development, clinical research, individual routes to health and healing, social determinants of medical care, and scholarship in teaching and learning. In addition, the School has contributed to policy development with work done through Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute.