The Northern Territory Population and Primary Health Care team provides preventative and chronic disease management to remote communities using a community development model to enhance health outcomes and improve services and infrastructure.

Most Rural Medical Practitioners are based in large centres with weekly outreach visits to the smaller community health centres. Some Rural Medical Practitioners opt to live in larger remote communities allowing them to become completely immersed in the remote community life.

From here, you’ll be able to progress into a range of different roles - such as clinical leadership, clinical research, team leadership and management, portfolio management and safety and quality.

Rural Medical Practitioners also provide a 24 hours, 7 day acute/emergency telehealth service to support the government and nongovernment, including the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation clinics across the regions. This service also supports Primary Health Care Nurses to care for patients in community or facilitates aeromedical retrieval if hospital level care is required. This role can be performed by Rural Medical Practitioners living in regional centres within the Territory or interstate.