Faculty of Medicine and Health, Broken Hill Rural Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Monash Rural Health, Bendigo, Vic., Australia.
Aust J Rural Health. 2022 Dec;30(6):823-829. doi: 10.1111/ajr.12919. Epub 2022 Sep 12.
To describe the establishment of a cross-border and multi-university collaboration in rural Australia to mitigate potential competition, maximise Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training (RHMT) Programme investments and regional health workforce outcomes.
Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training programme investments have enabled the establishment of 19 Australian University Departments of Rural Health (UDRH) and 17 Rural Clinical Schools. The importance of these investments is acknowledged. However, in regional settings, due to limited clinical placement and training opportunities, there is potential for heightened competition between universities who are operating within shared geographical footprints. Competition between universities risks focusing RHMT programme activity on individual reporting requirements and activities, in preference to: regional needs; existing community-university relationships; and place-based approaches to health workforce development.
A rural New South Wales and Victorian RHMT-funded departments, collectively known as the Sunraysia Collaboration.
Strategic and operational processes, structures and actions underpinning collaboration formation and relationship consolidation will be described. Co-design methodologies employed to collectively define collaboration vision and aims, governance framework and guiding principles, reporting structures and co-contributions to teaching, research and service will be discussed. Collaboration sensitivity to the social, cultural, relationship and economic connectedness within the region and existing health workforce flows will also be explored.
The Sunraysia collaboration demonstrates one approach towards mitigating potential competition between RHMT Programme funded universities within rural and remote Australia. The collaboration is an exemplar of co-design in action providing an alternative approach to address RHMT Programme parameters and regional needs whilst supporting rural-remote health workforce training and education innovations.
描述在澳大利亚农村建立跨境和多大学合作关系，以减轻潜在竞争，最大化农村卫生多学科培训（RHMT）计划的投资和区域卫生人力成果。
农村卫生多学科培训计划的投资使 19 个澳大利亚农村卫生大学系和 17 个农村临床学校得以建立。这些投资的重要性得到了认可。然而，在农村地区，由于临床实习和培训机会有限，在共享地理足迹的大学之间存在潜在的竞争加剧的风险。大学之间的竞争有可能将 RHMT 计划活动集中在个人报告要求和活动上，而不是：区域需求；现有的社区-大学关系；以及基于地点的卫生人力发展方法。
一个新南威尔士州和维多利亚州的农村 RHMT 资助部门，统称为 Sunraysia 合作。
将描述合作形成和关系巩固的战略和运营流程、结构和行动。将讨论共同定义合作愿景和目标、治理框架和指导原则、报告结构以及对教学、研究和服务的共同贡献所采用的共同设计方法。还将探讨合作对该地区内的社会、文化、关系和经济联系以及现有卫生人力流动的敏感性。
Sunraysia 合作展示了一种减轻澳大利亚农村和偏远地区 RHMT 计划资助的大学之间潜在竞争的方法。该合作是共同设计实践的一个范例，提供了一种替代方法来解决 RHMT 计划参数和区域需求，同时支持农村-偏远地区卫生人力培训和教育创新。
