Andrew J Gleason, J Oliver Daly and Ruth E Blackham
… prevocational training program, inadequate funding of education and skills training, and high service demands. To ensure a high quality medical workforce, the needs of doctors in training must be … which was launched in 2006, could affect prevocational medical training, as well as important issues regarding …
… A dmission to medical school is highly competitive and generally based on … two tests are widely used: the Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT) and the … reflect differences in admission criteria or the secondary education system; for example, schools in New South Wales …
… genuine engagement with Indigenous health issues challenges medical students and doctors alike. When participants in medicaleducation analyse racism as a social determinant of health, …
David Wilkinson, Jianzhen Zhang, Gerard J Byrne, Haida Luke, Ieva Z Ozolins, Malcolm H Parker and Raymond F Peterson
… S election of students into medical school is a high-profile, contentious, and … effective members of the profession. In Australia, most medical schools use a combination of prior academic … written examination developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research with the consortium of graduate-entry …
John J Harvey, John I Vrazas, Elhamy Bekhit, Chris Barnes and Philip J Robinson
… for cystic fibrosis, with instructions to seek prompt medical advice if she develops any recurrence of the SVCS … with a long life expectancy and often other significant medical comorbid conditions. However, anticoagulation use … facial plethora and prominent chest wall veins … Medicaleducation … Lessons from practice … Catheter‐related …
… carcinoma. 4 Thus, DRE is an essential skill for all medical students to acquire. Concern has arisen in Australia and overseas that medical students are no longer acquiring the skill of DRE … DRE and confidence about their findings. … Medicaleducation … Experience and attitudes of final-year medical …
… escalates, there is a growing imperative to ensure that medical practitioners are providing optimal, evidence-based, … treatment, but this relies on adequate undergraduate medicaleducation in musculoskeletal science. The competition for …
… T he use of interviews to select medical students is an internationally accepted practice … rating of interviewees, 1 - 3 and many Australian medical schools are adopting the multiple mini-interview … the effect of variance between interviewers. … Medicaleducation … Interviewer bias in medical student selection …
Michael D Riceman, Caitlyn Sun, John Pierides, Jennifer Catford, Renjy Nelson and Anushia Ashokan
… sweats but no fever, weight loss or incontinence. His past medical history included human leukocyte antigen B27 ( … Back Pain Clinical Care Standard emphasises management with education and physical activity. 8 , 9 In this case, … pain while physically supporting an older family member … Medicaleducation … Lessons from practice … Back pain in an …
Lipin Lukose, Shrey Seth, Kamal Sud, Brian Nankivell, Mary Ann Nicdao and Ronald L Castelino
… medicines information. In addition, the Monthly Index of Medical Specialties (MIMS) 7 also provides the list of … and weight gain of 2 kg due to fluid retention … Medicaleducation … Lessons from practice … Hidden danger: …
Karen M Scott, Patrina HY Caldwell, Elizabeth H Barnes and Jenny Barrett
… of professionalism is currently a topic of interest in medicaleducation research and often an explicit goal in medical curricula. Yet for over 25 years, research into the …
Tarun K Sen Gupta, Richard B Murray, Neil S Beaton, David J Farlow, Clare B Jukka and Natasha L Coventry
… has been in the vanguard of trends to regionally based medicaleducation in Australia. The first new Australian medical school in over 20 years was established at James …
… skills required for referral practice. Here we discuss the educational and training needs of medical, nursing or allied health professionals who provide … deficits. Glare and Virik 3 have reported that Australasian medical schools place greater emphasis on disease …
… that there is a need for evidence to underpin as much medicaleducation as is feasible. Without such evaluation, … and effective manner. Of the many issues in undergraduate medicaleducation under scrutiny, it is the …
Caroline O Laurence, Deborah A Turnbull, Nancy E Briggs and Jeffrey S Robinson
… A dmission to medical school in Australia and elsewhere is highly … are ongoing debates about the admission processes used by medical schools. 1 - 3 The demographic and social profile of … to ensure that factors such as social class, type of education (government or non-government school), ethnicity …
Sarah J Hyde, Pippa L Craig, Ann J Sefton, Greg L Ryan, Stephanie J Arnold and Vasi Naganathan
… field is just one of the many outcomes of undergraduate medicaleducation. Decisions to undertake primary training (the first level of formal or basic postgraduate medical training after medical school) and subspecialty …
Sarah J Dean, Alexandra L Barratt, Graham D Hendry and Patricia M A Lyon
… Several Australian medical schools have moved to graduate-entry problem-based … Existing studies suggest that graduates of problem-based medical programs feel themselves better prepared in many … graduates' ratings for preparedness for postgraduate education. In our study, comments from training organisers …
… Journal , 2 June 1897) G rand rounds have been an important educational activity in many Australian hospitals, but there … persist. The educational validity of formal continuing medicaleducation (CME) activities such as grand rounds has … respondents was drawn from names supplied by postgraduate medical councils, from directors of clinical training and …
Louise N Greenstock, Peter M Brooks, Gillian R Webb and Monica C Moran
… interprofessional learning (IPL) and interprofessional education (IPE) ( Box 1 ) are debated topics in health … practice; the ways IPL could be incorporated into medical curricula; how interprofessional skills can be … quality and safety agenda Adverse health care outcomes and medical errors are powerful catalysts for action to close …
Paul Worley, Anne Martin, David Prideaux, Richard Woodman, Elizabeth Worley and Michael Lowe
… University School of Medicine was the first Australian medical school to introduce a 4-year graduate-entry medical program. 1 Simultaneously, it piloted two new … location and age at admission ( P < 0.001), medicaleducation program location ( P = 0.001) ( Box ), and rural …