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Experiencing a rural medical school.

Should New Zealand have a rural medical school or should there at least be rural clinical medicine departments at Otago and Auckland medical schools? As a general practitioner (GP), the arguments by academics can seem confusing. But a year ago, my wife and I had the opportunity to experience a rural medical school first hand to see what we could learn that would be applicable to New Zealand (Table 1). I had been trying for a year to find a locum so that I could take a sabbatical for 6 months. Finally, a doctor who had been with us for her rural Trainee Intern (TI) attachment offered to come. That same week, we were asked to entertain Roger and Sarah Strasser as we are a teaching practice not too far from Hamilton, which they were visiting because of Hamilton’s plans to start a rural medical school. Roger is the Dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) and they made a warm offer for us to spend half of our sabbatical there.