… New accreditation standards set by the Postgraduate MedicalEducation Council of Queensland (PMCQ) define a number of … education programs (FEPs) that are facilitated by local medicaleducation units (MEUs). There is, however, no …
Jill E Thistlethwaite, Michael R Kidd and Judith N Hudson
… model. Over the past 100 years, the principal location for medical learning has become the hospital — usually a tertiary care facility attached to a university medical school. However, in developed countries, the … balance should shift towards a higher proportion of medicaleducation delivery in community settings — particularly, but …
… Medicaleducation in Australia is now a matter of public concern as the depth of knowledge of medical graduates in basic sciences is questioned. Recently, … the “clash of cultures” emerged, the former Minister for Education established a steering committee to gather the …
… Medicaleducation in Australia is a work in progress. Self-directed … have all but displaced didactic teaching. Some of our medical schools are now graduate-entry entities, and all … reflecting the audience’s sentiments on modern medicaleducation. Accommodating the wishes of medicine’s many …
Barry P McGrath, Ian S Graham, Brendan J Crotty and Brian C Jolly
… T his is a time of considerable challenge for medicaleducation and training in Australia. Belated recognition of medical workforce shortages by the Australian Government has …
Gabrielle Matta, Robyn E Woodward-Kron, Sandra Petty and Michael R Salzberg
… Toward trauma-informed medicaleducation Traumatic experiences such as childhood abuse, … behaviour, and the ways in which patients interact with medical practitioners. 1 , 2 Despite greater knowledge of …
S Bruce Dowton, Marie-Louise Stokes, Evan J Rawstron, Philip R Pogson and Mark A Brown
… Box 1 ). The many agencies and individuals involved in the education and training of doctors in Australia have, through … that is highly regarded internationally. Postgraduate medicaleducation — a fragmented landscape The system … and federal governments. The Australian postgraduate medical training sector has developed in an implicit and …
… Modern medical practice increasingly deals with the management of chronic disease, predominantly in older people. 1 Medicaleducation has to adapt to this change if it is to remain …
… of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic on medicaleducation, which has prompted the rapid shift to online teaching for medical students. We need to ensure that these recent …
… external factors have dramatically changed how we deliver education in the tertiary setting in 2020. This now gives us … learning and to review the essential components of our medical curricula. We also have the opportunity to come back … of a major shift in the content traditionally delivered in medical programs, we now need to look around at the changes …
Richard E Ruffin, Brendan J Crotty, Louis I Landau and Barry P McGrath
… T he past 11 years of National Prevocational MedicalEducation Forums have provided opportunities for interested … own regions, and take home ideas to improve prevocational medical training. The program for the 11th Forum was …
Timothy M Haynes, Margo E Collins, Odette Mazel, Louise M A Lawler, Caitlin Ryan and Shaun C Ewen
… The Leaders in Indigenous MedicalEducation (LIME) Network has developed over time as an … upon the emerging discipline of Indigenous health in medicaleducation T he Leaders in Indigenous Medical …
… been thinking about how best to re‐imagine our university medical program to enhance student experience and learning … utility and format of the pre‐clinical content taught in medical programs in the junior years, 1 particularly … There is emerging evidence that blended approaches to education meet the connectivity, flexibility and …
… (PBL) was introduced in the University of Newcastle medical faculty, 1 the prevailing educational style in 6-year undergraduate medical programs in Australia was teacher-led learning …
… opportunities in rural and remote areas will influence medical students to more strongly favour rural or remote … and maintaining facilities for rural and remote medicaleducation has required sustained effort from rural …
Marie-Louise B Dick, David B King, Geoffrey K Mitchell, Glynn D Kelly, John F Buckley and Susan J Garside
… T here is an increasing demand to deliver medicaleducation in general practice. With the trend for hospitals … and short patient stay, 1 there is an associated shift in medicaleducation (along with the patients) from the …
… P ostgraduate medicaleducation is of significant interest to a number of key players. These include the medical profession (because of its inherent responsibility …
… a more comprehensive solution to creating a fit-for-purpose medical workforce A ustralia is undergoing considerable … health care services. Australia has increased the number of medical schools and accepted increased numbers of … medical program development. To help sustain the medicaleducation and training infrastructure to cope with …
Niall S Higgins, Kersi Taraporewalla, Sisira Edirippulige, Robert S Ware, Michael Steyn and Marcus O Watson
… Specialist international medical graduates (SIMGs) make a significant contribution to … requirement, and means that SIMGs, like other international medical graduates, are often professionally isolated from … in the ANZCA specialist assessment process. To identify education-related reasons for this relative lack of success, …
Rob D Mitchell, Jennifer C Jamieson, Jake Parker, Fred B Hersch, Zoe Wainer and A Rob Moodie
… the relevance of global heath experiences to postgraduate medicaleducation systems in Australia. It examines the risks and … a skill set beyond that traditionally incorporated into medical curricula has given rise to the concept of GH …