Karly Field

Associate Professor Karly Field serves as Head of Clinical School at the Northern Rivers Rural Clinical School within Charles Sturt University's School of Rural Medicine. As Medical Director of Macksville District Hospital Emergency Department, she brings clinical expertise to her academic role. Her professional focus centers on rural emergency medicine pedagogy and mentorship frameworks for medical trainees.

Field's career reflects her commitment to regional healthcare, having returned to her hometown region after extensive training and practice internationally. Her educational philosophy emphasizes contextual adaptation of medical knowledge to resource-constrained environments through experiential learning models.