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Scott C Bell, Peter T P Bye, Peter J Cooper, A James Martin, Karen O McKay, Phillip J Robinson, Gerard F Ryan and Geoff C Sims

… to enter data in accordance with National Health and Medical Research Council guidelines. Most patients and … and the status of three was unknown. Of 550 adults for whom educational status was reported, 344 had completed high … a challenge for CF teams. People with CF require lifelong medical support, and new adult-specific CF centres have …

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 396-400 Free

Bites and stings

Catherine E MacBean, David McD Taylor and Karen Ashby

… for long-term intravenous antibiotics, surgery and other medical treatments. 1 Finally, such injuries represent a … public health burden that may be reduced by public education about responsible pet ownership, and regulations … 2 , 8 as they do not account for bites not requiring medical attention, and those treated by general …

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 38-40 Free

For debate

Joachim P Sturmberg, Diana M O’Halloran and Carmel M Martin

… ways, whether in the presence or absence of identifiable biomedical causes. Social and family context, educational attainment, employment status, local environment … more than just the identification and amelioration of biomedical abnormalities: they look for healing, 5 the …

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (8): 474-478 Free

Careers

Cate Swannell

… Dr Beard tells the MJA. It was while he was a resident medical officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital that Dr Beard … to Kempsey in NSW where he worked for the Durri Aboriginal Medical Service, and then in private practice and as a VMO … was on the board of the Australian Rural Health Education Network, and inaugural Head of the Department of …

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (2): Free

Narrative review

Sarah Cheah, Yijun Gao, Shirley Mo, Georgia Rigas, Oliver Fisher, Daniel L Chan, Michael G Chapman and Michael L Talbot

… before, during and after conception; and identified the educational needs of general practitioners and other health … approach of bariatric dieticians, bariatric medical practitioners and bariatric surgeons. 24 , 41 It is … specialists to also involve bariatric surgeons, bariatric medical practitioners, bariatric dieticians and the …

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 96-102 Free

Supplement

Bruce H Barraclough and Jim Birch

… listed in Box 1 . Also being implemented nationally is an Education Framework that defines the competencies needed by … This is being adopted enthusiastically by the vocational education and training sector and medical schools. The Council’s website provides an ongoing …

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): S48 Free

Medicine and the community

Graeme P Maguire and Carmel Nelson

… with poor health. From the exposé of the realities of biomedical research in remote Aboriginal communities by … disease, health and health care. Successive generations of medical students trained in southern Australian hospitals … age of the cohort of patients with “interesting and educational” murmurs attributable to RHD, to the extent that …

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (10): 506 Free

Research

Kristina Edvardsson, Kirsten I Black, Deborah Bateson, Wendy V Norman, Mridula Shankar, Leesa Hooker, Xia Li and Angela J Taft

… most groups of overseas‐born women. The implications : Medical abortion may be overcoming geographic and other … 3 Some planned pregnancies also end in abortion for medical or psychosocial reasons. 6 Equitable access to … linked with induced abortion in Australia, including education and employment, use of less effective …

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (3): 138-144 Free

Research

Diana M Bernard, Spring C Cooper Robbins, Kirsten J McCaffery, Caroline M Scott and S Rachel Skinner

… of access, as relatively few adolescents routinely attend medical clinics compared with other age groups. 2 Currently, … Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the NSW Department of Education and Training research approval board. In addition, … and treating procedural pain and anxiety related to medical procedures in children and adolescents. 33 Given the …

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (6): 297-300 Free

Research

Heather F Gidding, Matthew G Law, Janaki Amin, Graeme A Macdonald, Joe J Sasadeusz, Tracey L Jones, Simone I Strasser, Jacob George and Gregory J Dore, on behalf of the ACHOS investigator team

… by the site coordinator and/or clinician and their medical and pathology records were reviewed to obtain … were more likely to have deferred because of a chronic medical comorbid condition than those without cirrhosis (25% … unable to include some socioeconomic factors. Both level of education and social support have previously been reported …

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (8): 398-402 Free

Research

Jennifer A O’Hern and Louise Cooley

… dogs, examination of abattoir-slaughtered sheep, community education regarding safe slaughtering practices and farm … cases of hydatid disease in patients who presented to medical practitioners in Tasmania from January 1996 to July … had died or could not be contacted was obtained from the medical record. Data variables collected included current …

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (2): 117-120 Free

Research

James B Semmens, Frank M Sanfilippo, S Aqif Mukhtar, Natasha S Haynes, Jenny A Mountain and R James Aitken

… adverse event, when there is an unintended injury caused by medical management rather than by disease process, which was … of Surgical Care Project as part of a National Health and Medical Research Council grant, with ethical approval from … Its principal aim is to improve surgical care through education. This initial analysis suggests the WAASM has been …

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 504-508 Free

Careers

Cate Swannell

… Aged Care Workshop 2016, Sydney, NSW 11   5th International Medical Symposium: Future challenges for the Medical Profession, Sydney, NSW 11-12   Urogynaecological … NSW 13   3rd Annual Occupational Dermatology Research and Education Centre Patch Test Training Day, Perth, WA 14-17   …

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): Free

Preprint

Dev Kevat, Danielle Panaccio, Sam C Pang, Jessica Dean, Caitlin C Farmer and Patrick D Mahar

… Australian law? Introduction A multi-pronged strategy of education, financial and social incentives have contributed … may direct a person, or class of persons, to undergo medical treatment or be vaccinated. 2 Public health … no longer rendering services. 6   Exemptions to Vaccination Medical exemptions Valid medical exemptions to childhood …

Med J Aust 2021; (): 1 Free

Viewpoint

Elizabeth A Reid

… and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care” 2 or, more recently, “the right of everyone to … practices; and access to health-related information and education, including on sexual and reproductive health. It … adherence to the Charter of the United Nations. Health, education, social security and other areas internationally …

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (4): 163-165 Free

Clinical update

Dale A Fisher and Sarah E Huffam

… have much worse social and economic circumstances, education, living conditions and health status than other … of asymptomatic patients. Primary prevention, through education, counselling and vaccination, remains the mainstay …

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (2): 82-85 Free

Perspective

Des F Gorman

… of social mobility, largely by way of state-funded education, and a similar assumed birthright of unlimited … and career choice, migration and retirement, none of the medical disciplines will have enough practitioners in … the overall economy and general labour market conditions. “Medical” discoveries, such as the infectious cause of peptic …

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (5): S32-S36 Free

From the editor’s desk

… from the human condition. Lindsay E Beaton Journal of Medical Education 1965; 40: 35 … From the editor’s desk … In This …

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 226 Free

Supplement: Comprehensive care for people with schizophrenia living in the community

Dan I Lubman and Suresh Sundram

… levels of substance use (eg, National Health and Medical Research Council guidelines for safe alcohol use); …

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (9): S71-S75 Free

Editorials

Gerard J FitzGerald

… expansion of the scope of practice, underpinned by improved education and training — from in-house unstructured … staff and ordered the scrapping of a National Health and Medical Research Council-funded randomised controlled trial …

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 240-241 Free

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