… to a practice with a different patient mix and range of medical problems, or by taking on a specialist GP role. … to which these different career structures exist in the medical workforce, and how GPs define career and success, is … (about 14–24 years of age) Workplace entry: complete education; trial roles; choose work; develop vocational …
… The objective of this study was to assess the effect of an education campaign centring on a gold coin fine for CRP test … This money was slated to be donated to the Children’s Medical Research Institute as part of Jeans for Genes Day. … was 2–31 August 2013. The number of CRP tests ordered by medical staff working in the ED was collected for each …
Rose Cairns, Jared A Brown, Ann-Maree Lynch, Jeff Robinson, Carol Wylie and Nicholas A Buckley
… methotrexate included in pharmacy-filled dosette boxes. Education of pharmacists and their assistants could be … strategies, including altering the packaging, improving education, and including alerts in prescribing and … mandatory weekly dosing labelling on packaging, improving education, and including alerts in prescribing and …
… Student background and clinical education act synergistically We are fortunate that there is … on which to base policy decisions for building the rural medical workforce. The concept of the rural pipeline 1 provides a framework in which to consider who we admit to medical programs, where we can best deliver medical …
… to initiate a coordinated response to any hospital medical emergency. Traditionally, the most junior doctor and … to endorse and resource the system. An organisation-wide education program is required to teach staff how the system … an urgent response by staff who are able to deal with any medical emergency. RRS teams also respond to staff concern — …
Rebecca A McCormack, Erik R La Hei and Hugh C O Martin
… some stage in their first aid, most often for transport to medical care, but only eight had the soaked dressing cooled again or changed. Transport to a medical facility was shown to interfere with cooling in 60 … first aid for treating burns at all levels of healthcare. Education is needed at all levels in the community. Our …
… the affected relative(s). 3 , 7 , 8 The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia has recently … should be a national initiative to further educate the medical community. 1: Summary of National Health and Medical … with NHMRC guidelines in 81% of cases. Conclusions: Further education of the medical community is required to increase …
Elizabeth J M Corbett, Hasantha Gunasekera, Alanna Maycock and David Isaacs
… global refugee population. 3 These children bring unique medical, cultural, social and linguistic characteristics, … people seeking asylum. Concerns have been raised that the medical profession's knowledge is suboptimal. 9 , 16 General … know” responses highlights the need for better training and education in this area. This is further complicated by some …
Joan Henderson, Lisa A Valenti, Helena C Britt, Clare Bayram, Carmen Wong, Christopher Harrison, Allan J Pollack, Julie Gordon and Graeme C Miller
… College of General Practitioners [RACGP] and the Australian Medical Association), a BEACH substudy investigated the time … of Australian GPs during 2013–14, measured as the number of Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS) GP service items claimed = … that they did not undertake non-clinical work, such as education (teaching, research, continuing medicaleducation) …
… as an educator in Indigenous health. Since 2007, Australian Medical Council accreditation standards for medical schools have included an explicit focus on … health. The standards specify that medical schools use the educational expertise of Indigenous people, and have …
Ian A Scott, Geoffrey K Mitchell, Elizabeth J Reymond and Michael P Daly
… as being “too healthy”, hope (often unrealistically) for medical technology to prolong healthy life, regard future … The pressure of clinical work, a focus on managing acute medical problems and the absence of suitable training and … In these interactions, an advance care plan or a medical enduring power of attorney may serve as more …
… behaviour-modifying techniques instituted by parents, with education and support provided in primary care. Night … for the distress. It is also important to treat or exclude medical reasons for a child’s sleeping problems (eg, … weight. You calculate her body mass index and note from her medical record that it is crossing centiles upwards. She …
Sandra M Walsh, Vincent L Versace, Sandra C Thompson, Leanne J Browne, Sabina Knight, David M Lyle, Geoff Argus and Martin Jones
… social work, pharmacy, public health, health promotion, medical imaging and radiation, and nutrition and dietetics) … in rural, regional and remote parts of Australia, and education provided to those students. Hereafter, we use the … may have unique factors that influence rural practice. For medical radiation science students, specialty affected rural …
Ian D Cameron, Susan E Kurrle and Cathie Sherrington
… the Guidelines that may be applied in general health and medical settings. For some of the points, we have added our … Box 1 shows basic exercises for frail older people. 4 , 5 Medical practitioners should introduce the exercises, … strategies using a decision support list. These include educational strategies and appropriate supervision …
Rebecca J Winter, Yumi Sheehan, Timothy Papaluca, Graeme A Macdonald, Joy Rowland, Anton Colman, Mark Stoove, Andrew R Lloyd and Alexander J Thompson
… means of mitigating HCV transmissions in prisons. 45 Education strategies (R24) Hepatitis C education … health care A1 To support the ready availability of medical records for people moving between prisons and from … we recommend that: R19 Jurisdiction‐wide electronic medical records be implemented B1 People in prison should …
Robert J Adams, Graeme Tucker, Kay Price, Catherine L Hill, Sarah L Appleton, David H Wilson, Anne W Taylor and Richard E Ruffin
… knowledge of adverse events is based on reviews of hospital medical records, 1 , 2 incident reports by health staff 3 , … The North West Adelaide Health Study (NWAHS) is a biomedical population study of a representative sample of … risk-averse, and if they had low income or completed higher education ( Box 2 ). Age was not a significant variable. …
Josephine M Cranston, Alan J Crockett, John R Moss, Robert W Pegram and Nigel P Stocks
… of COPD clinics run by practice nurses. Self-management education, GP review and an action plan may produce … disease. The evidence for self-management education for mild-to-moderate COPD is equivocal, with … nurse-run COPD clinics could not be found. Self-management education, GP review and action plans may produce short-term …
Kerrie A Lawson, Ruth M Armstrong and Martin B Van Der Weyden
… and leaders in Indigenous health are emerging from our medical schools A ccording to the Australian Indigenous … doctors in Australia. 1 This amounts to 0.18% of the medical profession, despite 2.4% of the Australian … schools are recognised as “leaders” in Indigenous medicaleducation — the University of Newcastle, the University of …
… their effects can be ameliorated by better health systems, education, and being prepared The World Health Organization … life, and also impinge upon other critical and preventive medical care. While restrictions applied for long periods … Centre for Disease Control, as proposed by the Australian Medical Association, 17 , 18 should also be pursued, as it …
… are required, including decision support systems and education about deprescribing Two of the pillars of the … recommended in current guidelines — and some have been educational, with Australian organisations such as NPS … the investigators had access to the comprehensive online medical records system that includes the relevant working …