THE lecture theatre at the Bowenfels campus of the University of Notre Dame Australia was fully tested when Lithgow again played host to the annual rural medicine conference.
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Each year the university brings its first year medical students to Lithgow for a day long session introducing them to the special requirements involved in practising medicine in a regional location.
For many first timers it is also a revelation of what is on offer beyond the mountains.
Later in their final year the students are required to undertake part of their studies at the Notre Dame Rural Clinical School at Lithgow or similar campuses at Wagga Wagga or Bendigo.
The students listened to addresses by a number of local and visiting health professionals and had tours of the hospital and the state of the art Western Mines Rescue Station.
Of special interest this year was an address by Associate Professor Catherine Harding who was in the first intake of students at Lithgow and is now registrar at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital.
