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Determining The Right Balance Of Indigenous Health Education In An Undergraduate Medical Program In Australia – How Did We Do It?, Janie Smith, Shannon Springer Jan 2016

Determining The Right Balance Of Indigenous Health Education In An Undergraduate Medical Program In Australia – How Did We Do It?, Janie Smith, Shannon Springer

Janie Smith

There are a number of national standards, educational frameworks and long lists of expected learning outcomes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health that Australian medical schools are expected to achieve. A recent evaluation found that many universities struggled to meet the requirements into their already crowded curriculum and many were doing it poorly. Bond University on the Gold Coast was no exceptionwith good intent but mixed results. In 2011 Bond commenced a renewal of its curriculum. Part of the renewal process was to examine what Indigenous health was being taught across the curriculum and how to better meet the …


Identifying The Academically Borderline Student From Behaviours Observed In Pbl Tutorials, Camel Tepper, Janie Smith Jan 2016

Identifying The Academically Borderline Student From Behaviours Observed In Pbl Tutorials, Camel Tepper, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Cultural Immersion—What Impact Does It Have?, Janie Smith Jan 2016

Cultural Immersion—What Impact Does It Have?, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

What do we know about the rural and remote pharmacist workforce? Really, we know little about the rural pharmacist workforce in Australia: who they are, what their background is, why they choose to work rurally and why they leave or stay. The workforce shortages compare only with medicine despite the pharmacist student intake having doubled over the past decade, along with a significant increase in the number of regional pharmacy schools. Between 2008 and 2010 a large national pharmacist research project was undertaken, funded by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, to describe the rural and remote pharmacist workforce for the …


Heath Workforce: Fit For Purpose?, Janie Smith Jan 2016

Heath Workforce: Fit For Purpose?, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Rob And Stella Live In Nabvana, Janie Smith Jan 2016

Rob And Stella Live In Nabvana, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

Abstract available in the conference program on page 14.


The Potential Impact Of Higher Course Fees On Career Choice, Richard Hays, Kathleen Lockhart, Edward Teo, Janie Smith, David Waynforth Jan 2016

The Potential Impact Of Higher Course Fees On Career Choice, Richard Hays, Kathleen Lockhart, Edward Teo, Janie Smith, David Waynforth

Janie Smith

Background: Most Australian medical student places are government-supported, reducing the cost of tuition to about $10,000 each year, but some private places with fees cost up to $60,000 per year. In North America, debt at graduation is associated with different career choices. We explored the relationship between potential debt at graduation and future career preference. Summary of Work: Data were accessed from the Medical Schools Outcomes database Exit Questionnaire for both government-supported and full fee paying (FFP) students from 2008-11 in all Australian medical schools. The influence of gender, age, relationship status and fee-paying status on future career preference (specialty …


Using Cultural Immersion In A First Year Undergraduate Medical Program In Australia., Janie Smith, Shannon Springer Jan 2016

Using Cultural Immersion In A First Year Undergraduate Medical Program In Australia., Janie Smith, Shannon Springer

Janie Smith

All health professionals require an understanding of different cultures to be able to work effectively and safely with their patients and other team members. In 2011 Bond University renewed its undergraduate medical program to include significant cultural awareness and Indigenous health education, as a result of community need and Australian Medical Council recommendations. This included in 2012 Bond establishing an Indigenous Health Unit and an Indigenous Health Working Party to implement its curriculum. For the past two years Bonds first year students have undertaken a compulsory two day cultural immersion process to increase their understanding of other cultures, particularly Australian …


Using A Peer Supervision And Mentoring Model In The Supervision Of Final Year Medical Student Placements In The Solomon Islands, Janie Smith, Peter Jones, James Fink Jan 2016

Using A Peer Supervision And Mentoring Model In The Supervision Of Final Year Medical Student Placements In The Solomon Islands, Janie Smith, Peter Jones, James Fink

Janie Smith

Background: Makira Island in the Solomon Islands has a population of over 41,000 people, which in 2013 was serviced by one doctor, who worked in the hospital and traveled to remote sites, supported by highly skilled nursing staff. The capital Kira Kira is a very impoverished community with no formal governance structure, poor infrastructure and a large variety of public health issues that lead to fascinating medicine. Summary of Work: In 2013 Bond University’s School of Medicine in Australia commenced 5th year medical student placements at Kira Kira Hospital, with 33 students participating. At times there was little if no …


Does Cultural Awareness Education Have An Impact On Students’ Attitudes?, Janie Smith, Sally Sargeant Jan 2016

Does Cultural Awareness Education Have An Impact On Students’ Attitudes?, Janie Smith, Sally Sargeant

Janie Smith

Background:

All over the world people are conducting cultural awareness programs in an effort to educate health professionals about working in a culturally safe way with their patients, in an effort to improve health outcomes. However there is little evidence that any of these programs have a long term impact on the cultural safety of the students practice once graduated. In fact recent research indicates that training programs have been largely ineffective in improving doctors cultural skills, their behaviour or health outcomes. In fact there is anecdotal evidence that some approaches to cross cultural education are having the reverse effect …


Peer Mentoring: Evaluation Of A New Model Of Clinical Placement In The Solomon Islands Undertaken By An Australian Medical School, Janie Smith, Peter Jones, James Fink Jan 2016

Peer Mentoring: Evaluation Of A New Model Of Clinical Placement In The Solomon Islands Undertaken By An Australian Medical School, Janie Smith, Peter Jones, James Fink

Janie Smith

Introduction

Electives and selectives in developing countries are an important part of student learning experiences. During 2013, Bond University on the Gold Coast of Queensland in Australia piloted final year undergraduate medical student placements (n=33) at Kirakira Hospital, on Makira Island in the Solomon Islands. The placement was evaluated that year.

Methods

The clinical placement in Kirakira Hospital required 12 months of planning by the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine of Bond University in 2012. The evaluation of 2013 placements included a literature review; semi-structured interviews with participating Bond University and Kirakira Hospital staff, and with community …


Anatomical Variations: How Do Surgical And Radiology Training Programs Teach And Assess Them In Their Training Curricula, Athanasios Raikos, Janie Smith Jul 2015

Anatomical Variations: How Do Surgical And Radiology Training Programs Teach And Assess Them In Their Training Curricula, Athanasios Raikos, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

Sound knowledge of anatomy and anatomical variations plays an integral role in surgical and radiology specialties. This study investigated the current teaching and assessment trends on anatomical variations in various surgical and radiology specialty training curricula in Canada and Australia. A survey was sent to 122 Program Directors and Chairs of specialty committees in Canada and Directors of Training/Education in Australia of selected surgical and radiology specialties. A total of 80.7% of respondents report that their training curricula include anatomical variations. The highest rated classes of variations included in the curriculum are arterial (76%), venous (68%), followed by organs (64%). …


Leaving A Legacy? A Peer Supervision And Mentoring Model Used By Final Year Medical Students Placements In The Solomon Islands, Janie Smith, P Jones, J Fink Oct 2014

Leaving A Legacy? A Peer Supervision And Mentoring Model Used By Final Year Medical Students Placements In The Solomon Islands, Janie Smith, P Jones, J Fink

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Using A Peer Supervision And Mentoring Model In The Supervision Of Final Year Medical Students Placements In The Solomon Islands., Janie Smith, P Jones, J Fink Aug 2014

Using A Peer Supervision And Mentoring Model In The Supervision Of Final Year Medical Students Placements In The Solomon Islands., Janie Smith, P Jones, J Fink

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


The Remote Workforce – Is It Fit For Purpose?, Janie Smith Jul 2014

The Remote Workforce – Is It Fit For Purpose?, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Leaving A Legacy? A Peer Supervision And Mentoring Model Used By Final Year Medical Students Placements In The Solomon Islands., Janie Smith, P Jones, J Fink Jul 2014

Leaving A Legacy? A Peer Supervision And Mentoring Model Used By Final Year Medical Students Placements In The Solomon Islands., Janie Smith, P Jones, J Fink

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Determining The Right Balance Of Indigenous Health Education In An Undergraduate Medical Program In Australia – How Did We Do It?, Janie Smith, S Springer Jul 2014

Determining The Right Balance Of Indigenous Health Education In An Undergraduate Medical Program In Australia – How Did We Do It?, Janie Smith, S Springer

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Remote Health – Educating, Supporting And Advocating, Janie Smith Jan 2014

Remote Health – Educating, Supporting And Advocating, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


The Rural And Remote Health Workforce, G Malone, Janie Smith Nov 2013

The Rural And Remote Health Workforce, G Malone, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Cultural Immersion – What Impact Does It Have?, Janie Smith, S Springer, B Murphy, C Wolfe, J Togno, Katrina Bramstedt, Sally Sargeant Apr 2013

Cultural Immersion – What Impact Does It Have?, Janie Smith, S Springer, B Murphy, C Wolfe, J Togno, Katrina Bramstedt, Sally Sargeant

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Supporting Rural Health Managers., Janie Smith, L Andreatta, G Mooney, F Garnett Mar 2011

Supporting Rural Health Managers., Janie Smith, L Andreatta, G Mooney, F Garnett

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


The Case Of Brian - A Reality Check On The Safe Use Of Medicines In Rural Australia, Janie Smith Sep 2010

The Case Of Brian - A Reality Check On The Safe Use Of Medicines In Rural Australia, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

We often read or hear about the many wonderful developments in home medication reviews, ways of communicating with consumers and our quality improvement systems. But what does this mean at the coal-face for those older Australians living in rural and remote communities? Are these initiatives having an impact? Do people know about them and are they sustainable? The words sustainable and rural are often used together, not because rural is sustainable, but often because it is not. The Oxford Dictionary tells us that ‘sustainability’ means maintaining at length without interruption, weakening, losing power or quality; or to bear up from, …


Bruce: A Case Study Of The Realities For Rural Australians In The Safe Use Of Medicines, Janie Smith May 2010

Bruce: A Case Study Of The Realities For Rural Australians In The Safe Use Of Medicines, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

This presentation will introduce the theme of sustainability in an environment of rapid medicines change. It
will use a case study of Bruce, a real rural Australian, to discuss the realities for older people in being able to
keep up with change in their use of medicines, or not. It will then present two other perspectives, that of
the health professional / prescriber, and the family reflecting on the QUM principles. Do we have it right for
these three groups in the rural and remote context – education, safety and enough care?


The Australian College Of Rural And Remote Medicine Fellowship Program: A New Era In Rural And Remote Medicine Training, T Sengupta, S Margolis, D Prideaux, Janie Smith, J Cowie, T Wilkinson May 2010

The Australian College Of Rural And Remote Medicine Fellowship Program: A New Era In Rural And Remote Medicine Training, T Sengupta, S Margolis, D Prideaux, Janie Smith, J Cowie, T Wilkinson

Janie Smith

Access the presentation abstract from the Abstract Book (pp 76-77)


Findings From The Research On The Rural Pharmacy Workforce, Janie Smith Mar 2010

Findings From The Research On The Rural Pharmacy Workforce, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Working In Indigenous Health In A Culturally Safe Way, Janie Smith Sep 2009

Working In Indigenous Health In A Culturally Safe Way, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Consulting In Remote Indigenous Health: How Effective Is It?, Janie Smith, K Battye, L Roufeil May 2009

Consulting In Remote Indigenous Health: How Effective Is It?, Janie Smith, K Battye, L Roufeil

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


The Australian College Of Rural And Remote Medicine (Acrrm) Fellowship Program: A New Era In Rural And Remote Medicine Training, T Sengupta, S Margolis, D Prideaux, Janie Smith, M Cowie, T Wilkinson Dec 2008

The Australian College Of Rural And Remote Medicine (Acrrm) Fellowship Program: A New Era In Rural And Remote Medicine Training, T Sengupta, S Margolis, D Prideaux, Janie Smith, M Cowie, T Wilkinson

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


Rural Realities – Populations And Workforce…Does Anybody Care?, Janie Smith Dec 2008

Rural Realities – Populations And Workforce…Does Anybody Care?, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


The Scope Of Remote Practice, Janie Smith Oct 2008

The Scope Of Remote Practice, Janie Smith

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.


The Australian College Of Rural And Remote Medicine Stamps Exam: Delivering Summative Assessment Out To The Bush By Videoconference, S Margolis, T Wilkinson, Janie Smith, T Sengupta, D Prideaux Sep 2008

The Australian College Of Rural And Remote Medicine Stamps Exam: Delivering Summative Assessment Out To The Bush By Videoconference, S Margolis, T Wilkinson, Janie Smith, T Sengupta, D Prideaux

Janie Smith

No abstract provided.