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Theory of Change

Going Rural Health’s service learning Theory of Change outlines what the service-learning program hopes to achieve and how it hopes to achieve it, all underpinned by Going Rural Health’s values and principles. The Theory of Change is a tool to improve understanding of the program and intended outcomes to achieve its vision.

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Positive change in intent to practice rurally is strongly associated with nursing and allied health students of metropolitan origin after rural clinical placement

Kristen M. Glenister, Department of Rural, in collaboartion with Going Rural Health have published the following research assesing whether rural clinical placements influence change in intention to practice rurally for nursing and allied health students.

Results suggest that the impact of a rural clinical placement on these students on their intent to practice rurally is greater for metropolitan origin than rural origin students.

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