the rural clinical training and support programme funds a network of rural clinical schools and requires participating medical schools of a total of schools to deliver shortterm rural placements to all medical students and longterm over one year rural placements to of their medical students medical schools must also fill of medical school places with students from a rural background the increasing number of graduating medical students has put pressure on available internship positions the australian government has an agreement with the states and territories that guarantees intern positions for all australian domestic medical graduates