Emma Kennedy

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Leigh businesswoman Paige Rose has turned adversity into success, transforming a personal setback into motivation for Hapn Creative.

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Prioritising equity, sovereignty, place, and community in medical education could transform academic medicine, and subsequently the health outcomes, in rural communities, argue James Smith and colleagues Advancing medical education in rural and remote settings requires a transformational shift in academic medicine.123456 Although greater investment in the establishment and maintenance of rural medical schools is both logical and well argued,1456 attention must also be paid to the strategies they adopt in serving rural and remote communities, particularly First Nations populations. Rural medical schools should deliver quality curriculums tailored for rural and remote residents, including First Nations people of rural and remote communities, many of whom are the sovereign custodians of ancestral lands. This can be achieved through four essential evidence based strategies: explicitly tackling health inequities; reconciling sovereignty between First Nations and non-Indigenous peoples to advance First Nations health and wellbeing outcomes; prioritising place based approaches to medical education and training; and building on community strengths. These strategies are also important for medical education in urban contexts. However, the strengths of learning through the focus on person, family, and community centred care are highly visible in First Nations and rural and remote contexts, where continuity of relationships and time is critical to healthcare. Repositioning medical education with these strategies will tackle notable gaps in medical training, poorer access to health and medical services, and systemic medical workforce attraction and retention challenges, all of which have consistently disproportionate effects on population health outcomes. The chairs of the BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine recently highlighted the need for urgent and progressive reform in academic medicine.7 They identified disproportionate support for enabling medical graduates to work in resource rich contexts, which neglect disparate societal healthcare needs.7 We argue for …