… enforcement. It also requires communications and marketing, education, and immediate access to intervention programs in … attitudes must include long-term, scaled-up and repeated education programs about violence against women targeted to … of the positive effect of such practices, Monash University medical students are learning how to practise mindfulness …
Dorothy L Robinson, Joshua A Horsley, Fay H. Johnston and Geoffrey G Morgan
… reduce wood heater pollution are needed, including public education about the damage to health caused by wood smoke, … to domestic wood heaters. 19 In 2020, the Australian Medical Association Victoria supported calls for a buyback … are sold, not permitting the installation of new heaters, education programs, assistance for residents affected by …
… In reply: We are grateful for the interest in our article on medical photography. We plan to publish a more comprehensive … of the issue in one Australian tertiary hospital. Medical photographs aid diagnosis by becoming part of the … cases, tracking transient symptoms, tracking wounds, education, publication, telehealth, personal record, and at …
David Simmons, Les E Bolitho, Grant J Phelps, Rob Ziffer and Gary J Disher
… of the research published about the maldistribution of the medical workforce in Australia has concentrated on shortages in rural general practice. 1 , 2 Government medical workforce policies have generally focused on: … able to support consultant physician practice perform well educationally. The negative metropolitan view of rural …
Amy Page, Zoë Hyde, Kate Smith, Christopher Etherton‐Beer, David N Atkinson, Leon Flicker, Linda Skeaf, Roslyn Malay and Dina C LoGiudice
… people. 5 In addition to the usual challenges of optimising medical regimens for older people, older Indigenous people … diagnoses of consenting participants from their electronic medical records, routinely used by all primary care services … medical history, and whether they had received any formal education. We assessed cognition and depression with the …
… that even as science is providing more and more answers to medical mysteries, patients increasingly go in search of … in 2005, an excellence award from the National Health and Medical Research Council in 2010, and a medal from the … level, and as an ambassador for Australian medical science education”. In 1995, Professor Berkovic discovered the first …
… because of employment opportunities. Other reasons include education, social and cultural opportunities, and access to … people and the young, who may not have access to a car. Medical practitioners have a role in certifying whether … population, this has the potential to become a problem in medical practice. Actions necessary for transition to …
Emily Nash, Abdul‐Hamid Sabih, John Chetwood, Georgette Wood, Keval Pandya, Terry Yip, Avik Majumdar, Geoffrey W McCaughan, Simone I Strasser and Ken Liu
… supplements and improved, culturally appropriate community education about their risks are needed in Australia. Among … All cases of DILI were independently confirmed in patient medical records by two investigators. Clinical data Patient … values on admission, were extracted from electronic medical records. Acute liver failure was defined as the …
… in the 1930s, Ken Starr, a surgeon of high repute, became Medical Superintendent (although he preferred to be called … (Chris) McCaffrey came to Newcastle Hospital as a resident medical officer. He taught himself radiology and became the … reading, particularly of the 1910 Flexner Report on medicaleducation in the United States and Canada, 2 and the …
William B Dollman, Vanessa T LeBlanc, Lynette Stevens, Peter J O’Connor and John D Turnidge
… reduce the unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics. “Educational marketing” techniques directed towards health … antibiotic prescribing in primary health care. Parent education has been considered the single most important … from CMAJ 13 Jan 1998 8 by permission of the Canadian Medical Association. 2 Population demographic …
Chanaka Wijeratne, Margaret P Kay, Mark H Arnold and Jeffrey CL Looi
… of the prevalence of psychological distress across the medical profession and that practitioner wellbeing has … “coordinated action on the mental health of doctors and medical students”. 3 Even though this document has the … hub could incorporate research, knowledge translation, and education, with supported capacity to collaborate …
… clinical tasks is paramount. 9 Re‐engineering electronic medical records and laboratory reporting systems to enable … improve over four to 12 weeks, usually regardless of medical intervention. 10 Patients with “medically … that guide clinicians towards more appropriate requests, education on test indications and costs, audit and feedback …
Suzanne Nielsen, Raimondo Bruno, Louisa Degenhardt, Mark A Stoove, Jane A Fischer, Susan J Carruthers and Nicholas Lintzeris
… sources were dealers (86%), friends and relatives (54%) and medical prescriptions (28%). 6 In contrast, the US National Survey on Drug Use and Health found most non-medical users sourced analgesics from a friend or relative … questions on demographics (sex, age, ethnicity, employment, education level attained, current living arrangements), …
Clare A Skinner, Rebecca L Riordan, Kylie L Fraser, John D Buchanan and Kerry J Goulston
… T he use of locum medical officers to fill resident and registrar shifts in … providing locum services to hospitals include recent medical graduates, specialist trainees, and experienced … Medical Council of NSW, the Medical Training and Education Council, the NSW Resident Medical Officers …
Shubha Srinivasan, Maria E Craig, Linda Beeney, Rachel Hayes, Nuala Harkin, Geoffrey R Ambler, Kim C Donaghue and Christopher T Cowell
… admitted to hospital for several days to receive initial medical care and diabetes education. Most children are medically stable once treatment has commenced, but remain in …
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… (eg, cognitive behaviour therapy), if appropriate; education about the illness and how to cope with symptoms … recreational programs and other services, as appropriate. Education After a first episode of schizophrenia, the doctor … that schizophrenia is not "the end of the world", but a medical condition that can be treated and is experienced by …
Jenny C Kaldor, Roger S Magnusson and Stephen Colagiuri
… has focused largely on encouraging individuals, through education and information, to change their lifestyles. In … and Taxing sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages. Unlike medical interventions, legal and regulatory interventions … for individual behaviour. These actions complement education and the provision of information to members of the …
… Australia needs more clinician–researchers, backed by the Medical Research Future Fund and a less time-consuming and … Brendan Crabb, AC It's not unusual for an Australian medical researcher to spend 3 months of every year writing … over 10 years and embedding research training as part of education and accreditation in order to support dual …
… The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association urges all medical professionals to support and participate in the … on areas of Indigenous health that relate to our work, medical professionals should note the particular values and … in collaboration agreements which spread across the medicaleducation continuum. Agreements currently exist between AIDA …
… a combined Bachelor of Science (Honours) and Diploma of Education. After a short period teaching mathematics, he … its Department of Public Health, to pursue his passion for medical research, statistical analysis and lecturing. In … Sir Richard Stawell Memorial Prize from the Australian Medical Association (Victoria) in 2012. His passion for …