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Systematic reviews
… treatable disease at a life stage when opportunities for education, employment, reproduction and independent living … specific research policy reform by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has provided guidance for … community-controlled health services or Aboriginal medical services, 13 the Western Australian Aboriginal Child …
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Health care reform
… Hospital (QEH), Royal Adelaide Hospital and Flinders Medical Centre. QEH employed two PAs from October 2008 to … (doctor) and therefore improve the quality and quantity of medical service. SA Health’s 2007–2016 health care plan … also required to complete 100 hours of continuing medical education every 2 years and to pass a recertification exam …
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Supplement: Comprehensive care for people with schizophrenia living in the community
… GPs are likely to have increasing involvement with managing medical comorbidity in patients with schizophrenia, … However, the atypicals have been associated with other medical problems, including weight gain, 5 diabetes 6 and … people with schizophrenia is often suboptimal, and general medical conditions may either be missed, through inadequate …
Med J Aust 2003; 178 (9): S45-S46 Free
Research
… even within a subsidised pharmaceutical scheme. While educational and behavioural interventions may have … The PBS data do not include any information about the medical condition for which a prescription was dispensed. …
Med J Aust 2009; 191 (6): 319-323 Free
Careers
… my initial interest relates to mentoring. When I was a medical student, I came to the first day of my rotation in … a psychiatrist who had a reputation for being “tough” on medical students. It turned out that he simply didn’t suffer … I provide a number of second opinions, try to prioritise educational meetings and I enjoy participating in our …
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Letters
… amount of dental work, speech pathology, diabetes education or physiotherapy. The Department of Veterans’ … scheme, a comprehensive range of allied health and medical equipment, free patient transport, and private …
Med J Aust 2010; 192 (6): 354 Free
Perspectives
… of health professionals. In February 2013, Carbal Medical Services (Carbal) and the University of Queensland … care and ensure that emerging health professionals, whether medical, nursing or allied health, were trained in the … women who presented for health assessments. The van as an education and research space One of the goals of the MOB van …
Med J Aust 2023; 218 (2): 65-67 Free
Health care reform
… were made regarding having less access to consultant medical opinion than would be the case in the hospital, and … social needs or routine low-level postacute care. Varied medical involvement The evaluation noted that only two … can be duplicated. HIH will need to have a role in medical education, because patients with many important and common …
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Editorials
… differences in attitudes to hand hygiene between medical and non-medical hospital staff. 8 , 9 Non-medical staff often … 11 , 12 Compliance was also negatively correlated with educational level, being lower among senior doctors than …
Med J Aust 2014; 200 (9): 508-509 Free
Communication, culture and health
… type 2 diabetes status was determined by review of medical records or an indicative blood glucose level, … chart in conjunction with review of the participants’ medical history and adjustments for isolated extreme risk … collect self-reported data on primary place of residence, education, income, diet, physical activity and smoking …
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Obituaries
… He was posted to Papua New Guinea, where he joined the Medical Corps. He resumed his studies in 1944 and won the … the Traffic Injury Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council in 1960, John’s influence was soon …
Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 435 Free
Reflections
… when I moved to Randwick in February 2005 to begin my medical studies at the University of New South Wales. I … only thing I seemed to gain during the early years of my medical studies was 15 kg. At 11 o’clock one morning I … engaging with the material and taking responsibility for my medical career — although not without some bumps along the …
Med J Aust 2012; 196 (3): 205 Free
From the editor’s desk
… hell broke loose when the august Journal of the American Medical Association express-posted on its website the report … issue. Good grief! Has our understanding of grief been too “medicalised” over the years? Kellehear’s editorial (page … up to 1,500 with enough hearing handicap to impede their education? Maurice W Brown MJA 1975; 1: 83 [letter] … From …
Med J Aust 2002; 177 (4): 170 Free
Perspectives
… (AEs) and adverse reactions. Both terms refer to untoward medical occurrences in a trial participant, but the second … individuals reporting (or having experienced) some untoward medical event. In the PACE trial on the use of paracetamol … in reporting AEs. 21 “Adverse events” describe untoward medical events that may or may not be related to the study …
Med J Aust 2022; 217 (10): 502-504 Free
Review
… to an Australian hospital, notwithstanding occasional medical misadventures hitting the mainstream media, remain … sufficient, for improvement in health quality. However, the medical evidence to support public reporting as a means of … Prominent among these is the need for a “wide-ranging educational effort about the role and interpretation” of …
Med J Aust 2011; 194 (12): 658-660 Free
Perspectives
… traditional methods of clinical assessment, such as medical history and physical examination. The use of … care institutions are encouraged to develop and invest in education and training for health care providers to …
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Research
… were determined by a review of the participants’ digital medical record by clinic staff at the time of risk factor … agents. The patient subsequently disengaged from medical treatment and ceased all medications. At 21‐month … of cardiovascular risk, but only in people who were offered education and counselling as well as notification of their …
Med J Aust 2021; 214 (6): 266-271 Free
Careers
… Pathology Update 2018 , Sydney, NSW 2-4 Medical Parents of Australia and New Zealand Conference , … NZ 9 Tri-Nation Alliance International Medical Symposium 2018 , Sydney, NSW 9-10 RANZCP … Branch , Adelaide, SA 15-16 AOA Continuing Orthopaedic Education: How I do it – an update for the generalist , …
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From the editor’s desk
… (Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating) program, a structured education program for people with type 1 diabetes, may ease … Human Variome Project We mark the Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Medical Research Week with an editorial by Cotton and Macrae …
Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 626 Free
Perspectives
… Both lay people and experts often first learn about medical advances through the mainstream media, 5 and health … reward expert opinionmakers and fund the production of “educational” materials for professionals. Industries also … revenue, and the increasing reliance of health and medical research on private sources in the wake of declining …
Med J Aust 2013; 199 (7): 448-449 Free
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