Developing the future Indigenous health workforce: The feasibility and impact of a student-led placement programme in remote Indigenous communities.

Objective: To describe and evaluate a programme where medical students designed and implemented Indigenous health placements for students with an interest in rural/Indigenous health.

Design, Setting And Participants: In 2011, a student-led programme at the University of Adelaide was set up to give medical students the opportunity to undertake outreach trips and clinical placements in remote Indigenous communities. Twenty-four medical students attended trips to remote communities between 2012 and 2014.

Trachoma in remote Indigenous Australia: a review and public health perspective.

Objectives: Trachoma remains a major health concern in many remote Indigenous Australian communities, despite behaviour-modifying and biomedical strategies. This review aims to examine the social epidemiology of trachoma in remote Indigenous communities and identify practical, sustainable strategies to alter the social determinants of the disease.

Methods: A systematic search and critical review explored the proximal, intermediate and distal determinants of trachoma.