ALL DAY
9.00am - 5.00pm |
 Free
Standing Poster Expo |
7.30 - 9.00am
|
 Breakfast
Session - Rural Faculty of RACGP
10th Anniversary Champagne Breakfast
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9.00 - 10.30am
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| Keynote
Addresses - Chair: Professor Roger Strasser |
|
 Ms
Pat Anderson
Chair, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization
(NACCHO) |
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Professor
Don Nutbeam
Head of Public Health, UK Department of Health |
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|
Dr
Bruce Chater
Convener, WHO-Wonca Co-Sponsored Consultation "Health
for all Rural People" (HARP) |
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10.30 - 11.00am
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Morning Tea
|
11.00am - 12.30pm
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Parallel
Symposia
|
| Concurrent
Symposia 1 |
| Recruitment
and Retention of Rural Health Workforce - Chair: Dr Chris
Brook |
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|
Dr
Charles Boelen (Switzerland)
Towards Unity for Health: the WHO approach |
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|
Mr
Andrew Stuart (Australia)
Achieving a Rural Primary Health Care Workforce which matches
population needs. |
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Professor
Shatendra Gupta (Nepal)
Retention of Health Manpower in Rural Areas |
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|
Mr John
Bell (Australia)
Collaboration-the key to effective community health care services |
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| Concurrent
Symposia 2 |
|
Gender Issues - Chair: Ms Jo Wainer |
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Dr Barbara
Doty (Canada)
What Women Physicians Want |
|
|
Dr
Zorayda Leopando (Philipines)
Graduates of Philippine Medical Schools Who Chose the Rural
Areas for their Practice: A Comparison between Men and Women |
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|
Dr
Helen Tolhurst (Australia)
Women in Rural Practice - Conflict and Compromise |
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|
Dr Basseer
Jeawody (Australia)
Embracing therapeutic skills of male rural health practitioners |
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11.00am - 12.30pm
|
Free
Standing Paper Presentations
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| Paper
Session 1 |
| Indigenous
Issues - Chair: Mr Paul Briggs |
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|
Ms
Marlene Drysdale (Australia)
Health Issues for Indigenous Australians |
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|
Mr
Adrian Appo (Australia)
Ending the "ambulance at the bottom of the cliff"
approach to health: an Indigenous approach in the Goulburn
Valley |
|
|
Mr
Lance Emerson and Mr Ken McCarthy (Australia)
Community Pharmacist support to remote Aboriginal Health Services |
|
|
Dr
Lindsay Crowshoe (Canada)
Journey to Understanding: Physician education the Aboriginal
way |
|
|
Professor
Wah-Yun Low (Malaysia)
Relationship between iodine status and mental development
among young children in Sarawak, East Malaysia |
|
|
Mr
Paul Pholeros (Australia)
Fixing Houses for Better Health |
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Paper Session 2 |
| Rural/Urban
Interface - Chair: Dr Tariq Aziz |
|
|
Dr
John Wynn Jones (Wales)
The impact of the recent Foot and Mouth epidemic on the health
of the farming and rural community in the United Kingdom |
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Dr
Elsa Herdiana Murhandarwati (Indonesia)
Environmental and behaviour risk factors for Malaria incidence
at Girimulto Village, Menoreh Hill, Java, Indonesia |
|
|
Dr
John Gillies (Scotland)
Tackling geographic inequity: a Disease Management system
for secondary prevention of CHD in the Scottish Borders |
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|
Dr
Sajjad Ahmad Malik (Pakistan)
Incidence of cancers in rural areas of Pakistan |
|
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Mr
Richard Eccles (Australia)
Flexible Services that meet Community Needs |
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Paper Session 3
|
| Recruitment
and Retention of Rural Health Workforce - Chair: Dr Jim
Rourke |
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|
Dr
Alan Fatayi-Williams (Nigeria)
The Pakoto Project: Training Community Health Extension Workers
for the New Millennium |
|
|
Professor
John Humphreys (Australia)
Workforce retention in rural and remote Australia - Why do
GPs stay in practice? |
|
|
Mrs
Antoinette Struwig (South Africa)
Does Compassion Fatigue exist in rural healthcare and how
to address it? |
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Dr
David Sutherland (Australia)
Supporting rural origin students in medicine |
|
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Dr
Lexin Wang (Australia)
A comparison of metropolitan and rural medical schools in
China: which schools provide rural physicians? |
|
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Paper Session 4 |
| Recruitment
and Retention of Rural Health Workforce - Chair: Mr Ian
Pollerd |
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|
Dr
Marietjie De Villiers (South Africa)
Integrating individual and population health approaches in
a new School for Public and Primary Health Sciences at Stellenbosch
University, South Africa |
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|
Dr
Gerald Doeksen (USA)
The economic importance of the health care sector on a rural
community |
|
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Dr
Ron Gorsche (Canada)
On-call: The impact on the children of Alberta family physicians |
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Dr
J Thomsett (Australia)
Increasing the cultural awareness of medical students in rural
Queensland: Is it working? |
|
|
Ms
Gillian Laven (Australia)
Results from the study: Are medical students of rural origin
more likely to become rural general practitioners than students
of urban origin? A national case control study |
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11.00am - 12.30pm
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Facilitated
Poster Presentations
|
11.00am - 4.00pm
|
 Clinical
Skills Sessions
|
| 12.30
- 1.30pm |
Wonca
Rural Women's Working Party Meeting
"Strategic directions for female rural doctors"
Convenors: Ms Barb Doty & Ms Jo Wainer |
12.30 - 1.30pm
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Lunch
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|
1.30 - 3.30pm |
Workshops |
| |
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The
Healing Circle
Facilitators: Dr Jim Lord, Dr Barb Dory & Dr Jennette
Hermiston (Alaska) |
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|
Untangling
the Web
Facilitator: Dr Leslie Rourke (Canada) |
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|
The
design, Implementation and Evaluation of Clinical Pathways
Facilitator: Ms Anne Maree Conners (Australia) |
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1.30 - 2.30pm
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Free Standing Paper Presentations
|
|
Paper Session 1 |
| Indigenous
Issues - Chair: Ms Helen Evans |
|
|
Mr
Kevin Boots (Australia)
Working together to become a Centre of Excellence in Primary
Health |
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Mrs
Mavis Golds-Harrison (Australia)
A comparative study of health post and Aboriginal Medical
Service models in NRAHS |
|
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Dr
Michael Jong (Canada)
Risky Sexual Behaviours - learning from Teenagers & Parents |
|
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Mr
Brian Sullivan (Canada)
Local and Global Perspectives on the Health of Migrant Workers |
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Paper Session 2 |
Recruitment
and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr Christobal Fortunato |
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|
Ms
Yvette Vella (Australia)
Multidisciplinary interest in rural and general health education:
Encouraging and supporting multidisciplinary teams from an
undergraduate level |
|
Dr Kristine Battye (Australia)
Evaluation of an innovative model of cardiac rehabilitation in rural North West Queensland |
|
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Mr
Erin Wilson (Australia)
Strategies to Support Families of Female Rural General Practitioners |
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Mr
Neil Anderson (Australia)
Recruitment and retention of pharmacists in rural Australia |
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Paper Session 3 |
| Gender
Issues - Chair: Ms Jacinta Allan |
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|
Ms
Noela Lippert (Australia)
Supporting Female Rural General Practitioners: Are current
incentives programs gender neutral or gender blind? |
|
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Ms
Afroja Parvin (Bangladesh)
Advocacy work to mainstream gender issues in AIDS program
at the policy level |
|
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Dr
Dewaram Nagdeve (India)
Reproductive and Child Health Care in Rural India - Role of
ANM |
|
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Dr
Aruna Uprety (Nepal)
Gynaecological Priorities of Women in Rural Nepal |
|
|
Paper Session 4 |
| Rural/Urban
Interface - Chair: Dr Zorayda Leoponda |
|
|
Dr
Berta Nunes (Portugal)
Old people in a rural Village in Portugal: What are the problems? |
|
|
Sue
Whetton (Australia)
Growing older gracefully |
|
|
Dr
Thi Hoai Duc Nguyen (Vietnam)
Community involvement in improving reproductive health care
in remote areas |
|
|
Ms
Trish Buchan (Wales)
Adolescent substance misuse in rural Wales: Culture, geography
and service delivery |
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Paper Session 5 |
| Rural/Urban
Interface - Chair: Dr Bruce Chater |
|
|
Dr
Donata Kurpas (Poland)
Do we know enough about children from rural environments? |
|
|
Dr
Max Blouw (Canada)
Progress towards an innovative partnership in medical education |
|
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Mr
Tarun Kumar Maiti (India)
Building students' courage bank |
|
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Ms
Kate Brass (Australia)
Rural access: Building communities for everyone |
|
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Paper Session 6 |
| Rural/Urban
Interface - Chair: Dr Neethea Naidoo |
|
|
Ms
Jan Tully (Australia)
Enhancing loss and grief supports in rural communities |
|
|
Mr
Mathew Zebby (PNG)
Rural Health in Papua New Guinea |
|
|
Dr
Kathleen Jacobson (USA)
Evaluation of a low volume HIV Care Providers Training Program |
|
|
Dr
Alex George (India)
Need for access - a Sensitive approach to quality assurance
for rural India |
|
|
Paper Session 7 |
Recruitment
and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr Chris Simpson |
|
|
Ms
Monica Sorensen (Norway)
VEKS - a multidisciplinary study from Norway |
|
|
Dr
Paul Mackey (Canada)
The great adventure of rural practice exchange: Australia
and Canada |
|
|
Ms
Helen Still (Australia)
Rural Connect - Rural Allied Health Mentoring Program |
|
|
Professor
Colin Chapman (Australia)
Attracting and retaining pharmacists in rural Victoria and
Australia |
|
|
Paper Session 8 |
| Rural/Urban
Interface - Chair: Dr Alfred Loh |
|
|
Mrs
Zola Dantile (South Africa)
Provision of physiotherapy services in the rural areas |
|
|
Dr Bruce
Harris (Australia)
A new Agenda for Rural Health in Australia |
|
|
Ms
Klimentina Nesterova (Russia)
The new method of treatment of exudative rhinosinusitis with
low frequency ultrasound in Siberian region of Russia |
|
|
Dr
Edward Bowen Jones (South Africa)
The KwaZulu Natal Flying Doctor Service: Delivery of province
wide specialist care to rural hospitals |
|
2.30 - 3.30pm
|
Free Standing Paper Presentations
|
|
Paper Session 1 |
| Indigenous
Issues - Chair: Dr Ian Couper |
|
|
Dr
M Qasim Rana (Pakistan)
Pathways to care in health belief model |
|
|
Dr
Margaret Clarke (Canada)
Team development and training in fetal alcohol syndrome in
First Nations Communities in Canada |
|
|
Dr
F A Sudjadi (Indonesia)
Daytime survey on filariasis caused by nonperiodic form of
Brugia malayi among Dayak indigenous people in East Kalimantan,
Indonesia |
|
|
Ms
Mapule Maelane (South Africa)
Culture congruent care in the African rural perspective: A
challenge for nurse practitioners today |
|
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Paper Session 2 |
|
Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Mr Geoff Lavender |
|
|
Dr
Carl Robbins (Canada)
Information and communication technology in rural health care:
The TEACH Model |
|
|
Dr
John Wootton (Canada)
Implementation of a limited teleradiology network in rural
West Quebec: Barriers and facilitators |
|
|
Dr
Lisa Hudson (Australia)
Technology enabled health care for urban and isolated consumers:
Organizational changes required for sustainability |
|
|
Dr
Douglas Myhre (Canada)
Rural/urban interface as a teaching tool |
|
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Paper Session 3 |
|
Gender Issues - Women's Health - Chair: Dr Ilse Helleman |
|
|
Dr
Ursula Russell (Australia)
Teaching gender issues in rural general practice settings |
|
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Dr
Mary Johnston (Canada)
Canadian Frontiers of Rural Women Physicians |
|
|
Dr
Filomena Incitti (Canada)
Rural Women Physicians: are they unique? |
|
|
Dr
Tanveer Ahmed (Pakistan)
Improving Health Status of Women and Children through Community
Participatory Approach in Rural Sindh |
|
|
Paper Session 4 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr Prem Kainikkara |
|
|
Mrs
Christina West (UK)
Rural-urban morbidity and activity recording project: Issues
of implementing urban systems in rural areas |
|
|
Mr
Andrew McKay (Canada)
Recruitment isn't, and retention's different |
|
|
Dr
Derek Maseka (South Africa)
The perceptions and experiences of community service doctors
about compulsory community service at Shongwe Hospital in
Mpumalanga province of South Africa |
|
|
Dr
Deborah Cockrell (Australia)
Addressing rural NSW dental workforce needs through a Rural
Placement Program for dental students of the Faculty of Dentistry |
|
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Paper Session 5 |
|
Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Ms Anne Leversha |
|
|
Dr
Christian Reuter (UK)
Is there a need for travel medicine education for GP's in
training (Registrars) in rural Scotland? Results of a survey
by questionnaire in the north of Scotland (Highland and Islands)
in 2001 |
|
|
Dr
Dr Muhammad Iftikhar Rana (Pakistan)
Medical education in rural health delivery systems in developing
countries |
|
|
Dr
Andrew McKenzie (South Africa)
Building interdisciplinary health teams at district level |
|
|
Dr
Vikas Bhatia (India)
An interventional study to strengthen first aid healthcare
kit in schools in India |
|
|
Paper Session 6 |
|
Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Professor Desley Hegney |
|
|
Dr
Steve Reid (South Africa)
A training program for supervisors of rural primary care nurse
practitioners in South Africa |
|
|
Dr
Shaiful Bahari Ismail (Malaysia)
Training family doctors - our early experience in Universiti
Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia |
|
|
Ms
Shyamala Nagendran (Canada)
Collaboration of urban and rural centres: positive ways to
provide academic accessibility for rural sites |
|
|
Mr
Huw Clark (Australia)
Urban/rural collaboration in Carnarvon |
|
|
Paper Session 7 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Mr Richard Eccles |
|
|
Dr
Elma De Vries (South Africa)
Do South African rural origin medical students return to rural
practice? |
|
|
Dr
Chris Simpson (USA)
Family Practice Resident Satisfaction Survey |
|
|
Dr
Phil Heffernan (Australia)
Building partnerships in the South East Asian region: A progress
report on the development of the Cambodian Medical Association |
|
|
Dr
Edi Albert (Australia)
Tasmanian Interdisciplinary Rural Placement Program for undergraduate
health science students |
|
|
Paper Session 8 |
|
Rural Urban Interface - Chair: Ms Margaret Brown |
|
|
Mr Paul Fitzgerald (Australia)
HEALTHCONNECT: A Health Information Network For All Australians |
|
|
Mrs
Mary Filmer (Australia)
The development and validation of a bereavement support program,
as used by a remote, rural Bush Nursing Centre |
|
|
Dr
H John Fardy (Australia)
Using proactive care and IT to improve rural health outcomes |
|
|
Dr
Hematram Yadav (Malaysia)
Has confidential enquiry into maternal deaths strategy reduced
maternal deaths in Malaysia significantly? |
|
3.30 - 4.00pm
|
Afternoon Tea
|
4.00 - 5.00pm
|
Global/Local Village Meetings - Hypothetical problem solving
|
6.30 for
7.00pm start
|
Offical
Conference Dinner - Celebration of 30 Years of Wonca
Black Tie / National Dress
|
ALL DAY
9.00am - 5.00pm |
Free
Standing Poster Expo |
7.30 - 9.00am
|
Consumers
Forum and Breakfast
|
9.00 - 10.30am
|
| Keynote
Addresses - Chair: Ms Di Wyatt |
|
|
The Honourable
John Thwaites MP,
Victorian Minister for Health
What is happening in Rural and Regional Victoria: the way
forward |
|
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Professor
Florence Manguyu,
Former President of the Medical Women's International Association
Addressing Gender Issues in the provision of Health Services
in Rural Communities. |
|
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Dr Michael
Boland,
President of Wonca
The role of the Rural Practitioner in the Health Team |
|
|
Professor
Roger Rosenblatt,
Vice-Chair of Department of Family Medicine, University of
Washington
The Environmental Imperative and the Rural Family Doctor:
What can you do to save the Earth? |
|
10.30 - 11.00am
|
Morning Tea
|
11.00am - 12.30pm
|
Parallel Symposia
|
|
Concurrent Symposia 1 |
|
Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Dr Sarah Strasser |
|
|
Dr
Colin Owen (Australia)
Rural/Urban Interface: an Australian Aspect |
|
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Ms
Katherine Bentley
Partnerships in Rural Health Care |
|
|
Dr
Ian Couper (South Africa)
Management of Rural Health Services- Exploring Success |
|
|
Dr
Prem Kainikkara (India)
High quality healthcare without huge resources: The Kerala
experience |
|
|
Concurrent Symposia 2 |
|
Indigenous Issues - Chair: Mr Ben Knight |
|
|
Associate
Professor Elaine Duffy (Australia)
Constructing Indigenous Women's Health and Indigenous Health
Policies |
|
|
Dr
David Whittet (New Zealand)
Developing Family Medicine in Regions of Extreme Need |
|
|
Ms
Sabina Knight (Australia)
Dancing in the Dust |
|
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Dr
Juan Mendive (Spain)
The Rural General Practitioner- Working in a Team- The Spanish
Experience |
|
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Concurrent Symposia 3 |
|
Innovation Education - Chair: Professor Shatendra Gupta |
|
|
Professor
Richard Hays (Australia)
Developing health education to address recruitment and retention
issues |
|
|
Dr Cristobal
Fortunato (Philippines)
Medical Education for Health Development: A call for partnership
to improve health |
|
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Dr
Pat Farry (New Zealand)
A rural community based medical school in New Zealand |
|
|
Dr
Jim Rourke (Canada)
Building the Northern Ontario Rural Medical School |
|
11.00am - 12.30pm
|
Free Standing Paper Presentations
|
|
Paper Session 1 |
|
Rural Students Multidisciplinary Forum - Chair: Glenn
Matthieson |
|
|
Mr James
Ward (Australia)
The National Rural Health Network (NRHN): Presenting the network
of rural student clubs in Australia |
|
|
Ms Kelly
Bertrum (Australia)
Report from the NRNH pre-Wonca Symposium "Celebrating
Rural Life" |
|
|
A facilitated
student workshop:
Can students contribute to the health of communities in the
developing world? |
|
|
Paper Session 2 |
|
Gender Issues - Chair: Dr Berta Nunes |
|
|
Ms
Kirsty McEwin (Australia)
Evidence based rural health recruitment and retention policies
for female medical practitioners |
|
|
Dr
Angela Taft (Australia)
Rural GPs, gender and psychosocial caseloads: lessons from
a study of rural family practice and intimate partner abuse |
|
|
Dr Muhammad Iftikhar Rana (Pakistan)
Role of Family Physician in Family Planning in Pakistan |
|
|
Mrs
Sarah Hardy
Developing menopause education resources to reflect the needs
of the rural and remote women |
|
|
Dr
Lindiwe Selepe (South Africa)
A descriptive study of the determinants of sexual behaviour
knowledge in black South African teenagers |
|
|
Paper Session 3 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr John Macleod |
|
|
Dr
Paul Worley (Australia)
Dedicated rural streaming in undergraduate medical education |
|
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Ms
Carol McKinstry (Australia)
The learning needs of beginning occupational therapists |
|
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Ms
Lynda Wylie (Australia)
The attrition of a rural workforce: Why they go |
|
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Dr
David Kay (Canada)
Integrated Rural Physician Recruitment and Retention- Alberta's
Rural Physician Action Plan |
|
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Dr
Martin London (New Zealand)
Landmarks to Partnerships |
|
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Paper Session 4 |
|
Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Dr Steve Reid |
|
|
Dr
Pratap Narayan Prasad (Nepal)
Surgery in rural Nepal |
|
|
Dr
Derek Allen (Vanuatu)
The power of two on a remote Pacific Island |
|
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Mrs
Isabel Jamieson (New Zealand)
Mobile Surgery: Telepresence and rural health development |
|
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Ms
Busisiwe Bhengu (South Africa)
A health system's analysis of the referral system between
the peripheral and tertiary ICU's |
|
|
Dr
Finnuala Lonsdale (Canada)
What is the future of acute care facilities in rural Manitoba? |
|
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Paper Session 5 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr Barb Doty |
|
|
Dr
Colville Laird (Scotland)
Training rural doctors for emergency care - The Tartan solution |
|
|
Dr
Paul Theodorakis (Greece)
Health manpower in rural Albania |
|
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Dr
Jane Greacen (Australia)
Assessing the clinical competence and suitability of doctors
trained overseas for recruitment to rural general practice |
|
|
Ms Anna Nichols (Australia)
Rurally based training for junior doctors |
|
|
Dr Gordon Peterkin (Scotland)
Proposed Remote Telemedicine Project: GRAMPIAN PRIMARY CARE NHS TRUST |
|
11.00am - 12.30pm
|
Facilitated
Posters Presentations
|
| 12.30
- 1.30pm |
Wonca
Rural Women's Working Party Meeting
"Needs assessment & future directions"
Convenors: Dr Lexia Bryant & Ms Jo Wainer |
12.30 - 1.30pm
|
Lunch
|
11.00am - 4.00pm
|
Clinical
Skills Sessions
|
| 1.30
- 3.30pm |
Workshops |
| |
|
1.30 - 2.30pm
|
Free Standing Paper Presentations
|
|
Paper Session 1 |
|
Indigenous Issues - Chair: Mr Peter Craighead |
|
|
Dr
Elizabeth Chalmers (Australia)
The role of a University Department of Rural Health in assisting
with remote community regional planning |
|
|
Dr
Muzaffar Ali Sh (Pakistan)
Incidence of Hepatitis in Rural Punjab - Pakistan |
|
|
Ms
Belinda Wozencroft (Australia)
From the edge of Lake Dora |
|
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Mrs
Mmapheko Doriccah Peu (South Africa)
Empowerment of rural traditional healers |
|
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Paper Session 2 |
|
Gender Issues - Chair: Karen Francis |
|
|
Dr
Desiree Yap (Australia)
Women's Health care for the growing Iraqi and Moslem population
in the Goulburn Valley Region of Victoria, Australia: Unique
needs in a Rural Context |
|
|
Dr
Rajib Acharya (India)
Who will care for them? Rural women cry for better health
facilities during pregnancy |
|
|
Mrs
Nitu Sharan (Shekhar) (India)
Domestic Violence and Indian Women's Health |
|
|
Dr
Themba Dlomo (South Africa)
Working together with women for health |
|
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Paper Session 3 |
|
Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Dr Alan Fatayi-Williams |
|
|
Ms
Anne Leversha (Australia)
Rural community pharmacy videoconferencing project |
|
|
Ms
Helen Howarth (Australia)
For professional satisfaction: Work with other professionals |
|
|
Dr Michelle Lawler (Canada)
Providing Sexual Health Services to an Isolated Community: Implementation and Evaluation of an Adolescent Wellness Clinic in Rural Manitoulin Island, Canada |
|
|
Professor
M W Krause (South Africa)
An outcomes-based education and training program for physiotherapy |
|
|
Paper Session 4 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr Charles Boelen |
|
|
Dr
David Cameron (South Africa)
Are nurses the answer to the health needs of rural South Africa? |
|
|
Ms
Keerti Bhusan Pradhan (India)
Rural health in Orissa - Transition |
|
|
Dr
Ruth McNair (Australia)
Educating for a sustainable rural workforce by building team
working capacity |
|
|
Miss
Mary-Ann Grieve (Australia)
Recruitment through provision and promotion of positive undergraduate
rural health experiences |
|
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Paper Session 5 |
|
Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Dr Victor Inem |
|
|
Dr
M Tariq Aziz (Pakistan)
Resurgence of resistant tuberculosis in rural areas |
|
|
Dr
John Macleod (Scotland)
Potato skins |
|
|
Dr
Andrew Marsden (UK)
Increasing the uptake of pre-hospital thrombolysis in the
remote communities: joint delivery between the GP and the
ambulance service |
|
|
Dr
James Douglas (Scotland)
Occupational health in salmon farming and processing in a
new rural industry for Scotland |
|
|
Paper Session 6 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr David Topps |
|
|
Professor
Desley Hegney (Australia)
Factors influencing recruitment and retention of rural and
remote area nurses in Queensland |
|
|
Dr
John B Coombs (USA)
R.U.O.P.: An elective rural clerkship in a decentralized medical
education program |
|
|
Dr
Jennifer Reath (Australia)
Practical strategies in supporting general practitioners working
and training in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communites |
|
|
Mr
Chris Ward (Australia)
A cooperative approach to sustainable rural general practice
in neighbouring towns |
|
|
Paper Session 7 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr David Whittet |
|
|
Dr
Christopher Hogan (Australia)
An education program for the clinical nurse in GP practice |
|
|
Dr
Roger Sexton (Australia)
Healthy doctors make a healthy community |
|
|
Mrs
Terri Taylor (Canada)
Rural Physician Spouse Network: A key piece of the retention
puzzle |
|
|
Mr
Long-Ren Liao (Taiwan)
Physical therapy services for the survivors from the Taiwan
921 earthquake |
|
|
Paper Session 8 |
|
Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Mr Gordon Gregory |
|
|
Dr
Barbara Solarsh (South Africa)
Rehabilitation for rural people with disability - Services
for the people by the people |
|
|
Dr
Teresa Iacona (Australia)
Targeted health initiatives for country people with developmental
disability |
|
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Mr
Goodwin Nwadibia Aja (Nigeria)
Social network: The tie that binds |
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Dr
Rob Wedel (Canada)
The Taber Integrated Primary Care Project - early results
and implications for health providers |
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2.30 - 3.30pm
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Free Standing Paper Presentations
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Paper Session 1 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr Dan Smith |
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Dr
Bruce Hayes (Nepal)
The Community and Doctors for Rural Nepal |
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Mrs
Mary Hoodless (Australia)
Community processes associated with a changing rural health
service |
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Dr
Maria Cristina de Mira Galvao (Portugal)
Rural health undergraduate medical teaching on a primary care
basis |
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Professor
Dennis Pashen (Australia)
Using multidisciplinary health student attachments in remote
North &West Queensland as a strategy for recruitment |
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Paper Session 2 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Dr Ashok Patil |
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Dr
Derek Browne (UK)
Community empowerment for urban/rural interface promotion |
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Dr
Carl Whiteside (Canada)
Educational innovations: Addressing the social responsibility
of rural family medicine education |
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Ms
Margaret Brown (Australia)
Strategies and methodologies for effective consumer participation |
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Buddhadeb
Chaudhuri (India)
Health for All: Relevance of traditional wisdom in rural health |
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Paper Session 3 |
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Indigenous Issues - Chair: Professor Ian Wronski |
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Dr
Sophie Couzos (Australia)
The NACCHO ear trial - Aboriginal Community Controlled clinical
research |
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Ms Judith Hewitson (Australia)
Online Documentary: an innovative culturally appropriate training model for indigenous communities |
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Mr
Pallassana Vaidyanatha Sarma (India)
The Sunderban Saga |
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Dr Carolyn Annerud (USA)
Emergency Medicine in Papua New Guinea 2002 - An AUSaid pilot
project |
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Paper Session 4 |
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Gender Issues - Chair: Ms Pat Anderson |
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Dr Priscilla
Whittle (Australia)
Improving access and equity in rural and remote Australia
provision of Women's Health Medical Services by Female GPs
in remote and rural areas |
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Dr
Rumeli Das (India)
Male Involvement Strategy in Reproductive and Child Health |
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Dr
B Tiphaine (Nepal)
The experience of healthcare specialists in conducting a gynaecological
clinic in far western Nepal |
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Dr
Ntodeni Ndwamato (South Africa)
The beliefs and practice of multiparous women with regard
to contraception |
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Paper Session 5 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Mr Brian Joyce |
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Dr
Tanveer Ahmed (Pakistan)
Improvement in prescribing practices of private practitioners
for children through verbal case review intervention in rural
communities in Karachi |
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Mr
Samer Khan (Pakistan)
Vaccination in rural areas of Punjab |
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Dr
Johnathan Newbury (Australia)
Linking rural general practice teaching in Nepal and Australia |
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Mr
John Humphrey Amuasi (Ghana)
Promoting rural health care in Ghana: Efforts of the Federation
of Ghana Medical Students Associations |
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Paper Session 6 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Dr John Wynn-Jones |
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Professor
Raymond Pong (Canada)
Bringing services to where they are needed: The chemotherapy
outreach program in northeastern Ontario |
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Dr
Shiba Kumar Rai (Nepal)
Rural health conditions in Nepal: Present situation and its
remedies |
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Dr
Keith Wimble (South Africa)
Health posts - effective sites for the interface of rural
and urban health services |
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Mr
Vahid Saberi (Australia)
Equity in distribution of health resources: A rural case study |
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Paper Session 7 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Dr David Mildenhall |
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Mr Basudev
Panda (India)
Safeguarding rural health: Everyone's concern |
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Dr
Christine Read (Australia)
Setting up a new service in reproductive and sexual health:
FPA Health, Dubbo |
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Dr
J Jithoo (South Africa)
Telemedicine: Experience of a regional unit based in KwaZulu-Natal |
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Professor
Geoff Solarsh (South Africa)
Opportunities for Population-based Research, Community-based
Education and Innovative Health Services Models in Rural Populations |
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Paper Session 8 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Mr Bruce McKay |
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Dr
Gordon Chaytors (Canada)
A multi-faceted program of Rural Faculty Development in Family
Medicine |
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Dr John Hnatuik (Canada)
Advocate, broker and concierge: Additional skills training for rural physicians and Alberta's skills brokers |
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Dr
Colin Oberg (Canada)
Cyber-rounds: The use of electronic media in postgraduate
medical education and CME |
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Ms
Leonie McLaughlin (Australia)
Enhancing retention and recruitment of the nursing workforce
through education |
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3.30 - 4.00pm
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Afternoon Tea
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4.00 - 5.00pm
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Global/Local Village Meetings
Hypothetical problem solving
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6.30pm for
7.00pm start
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BBQ and Bush Dance
Casual
Dress
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