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Enriching health professional students' placement experiences through targeted community engagement has the potential to help develop their preparedness to provide healthcare to the broader community. In 2011 the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health (UONDRH) embarked on a program of multidisciplinary community engagement which consisted of short, extracurricular community-engaged learning experiences integrated with the students' professional placements. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the program was adding to the students’ rural health placement experiences based on perceptions of both the students themselves and UONDRH staff.

A mixed methods approach used a student survey (n = 96), which included both closed and open-ended questions, and semi-structured interviews with staff members involved in delivery of the community engagement program (n …