7.30 - 9.00am
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 Breakfast
Session - Rural Faculty of RACGP
10th Anniversary Champagne Breakfast
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ALL DAY
9.00am - 5.00pm |
 Free
Standing Poster Expo |
9.00 - 10.30am
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| Keynote
Addresses - Chair: Professor Roger Strasser |
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 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
M K Rajakuma
Wonca Working Party on Rural Practice
Rural Health and Global Equity. |
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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
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11.00am - 12.30pm
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Parallel
Symposia
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| 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 |
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Gender Issues - Chair: Ms Jo Wainer |
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Dr Barbara
Doty (Alaska)
What Women Physicians Want |
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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)
Issues for Women in Rural and Remote Practice |
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Dr Basseer
Jeawody (Australia)
Embracing therapeutic skills of male rural health practitioners |
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11.00am - 12.30pm
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Free
Standing Paper Presentations
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| Paper
Session 1 |
| Indigenous
Issues - Chair: Dr Morton Rawlins |
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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 |
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Mr
Lance Emerson and Mr Ken McCarthy (Australia)
Community Pharmacist support to remote Aboriginal Health Services |
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Dr
Lindsay Crowshoe (Canada)
Journey to Understanding: Physician education the Aboriginal
way |
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Professor
Wah-Yun Low (Malaysia)
Relationship between iodine status and mental development
among young children in Sarawak, East Malaysia |
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Mr
Paul Pholeros (Australia)
Fixing Houses for Better Health |
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Paper Session 2 |
| Rural/Urban
Interface - Chair: Dr Tariq Aziz |
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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 |
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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 David
Mildenhall (Australia)
Further Initiatives to Improve Health in the Australian Rural
and Remote Setting |
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Professor
John Humphreys (Australia)
Workforce retention in rural and remote Australia - Why do
GPs stay in practice? |
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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: Dr David
Topps |
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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? |
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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
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11.00am - 3.30pm
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 Clinical
Skills Program
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| 12.30
- 1.30pm |
Wonca
Rural Women's Working Party Meeting
"Strategic directions for female rural doctors"
Convenors: Dr 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 Doty & 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
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Paper Session 1 |
| Indigenous
Issues - Chair: Ms Helen Evans |
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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 Steve Reid |
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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 |
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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 |
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Paper Session 4 |
| Rural/Urban
Interface - Chair: Dr Zorayda Leoponda |
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Dr
Berta Nunes (Portugal)
Old people in a rural Village in Portugal: What are the problems? |
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Sue
Whetton (Australia)
Growing older gracefully |
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Dr
Thi Hoai Duc Nguyen (Vietnam)
Community involvement in improving reproductive health care
in remote areas |
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Dr
John Wynn-Jones (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 |
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Dr
Donata Kurpas (Poland)
Do we know enough about children from rural environments? |
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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 |
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Ms
Jan Tully (Australia)
Enhancing loss and grief supports in rural communities |
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Mr
Mathew Zebby (PNG)
Rural Health in Papua New Guinea |
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Dr
Kathleen Jacobson (USA)
Evaluation of a low volume HIV Care Providers Training Program |
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Dr
Alex George (India)
Need for access - a Sensitive approach to quality assurance
for rural India |
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Paper Session 7 |
Recruitment
and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr Chris Simpson |
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Ms
Monica Sorensen (Norway)
VEKS - a multidisciplinary study from Norway |
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Dr
Paul Mackey (Canada)
The great adventure of rural practice exchange: Australia
and Canada |
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Ms
Helen Still (Australia)
Rural Connect - Rural Allied Health Mentoring Program |
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Professor
Colin Chapman (Australia)
Attracting and retaining pharmacists in rural Victoria and
Australia |
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Paper Session 8 |
| Rural/Urban
Interface - Chair: Dr Alfred Loh |
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Mrs
Zola Dantile (South Africa)
Provision of physiotherapy services in the rural areas |
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Dr
Bruce Harris (Australia)
A new Agenda for Rural Health in Australia |
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Ms
Klimentina Nesterova (Russia)
The new method of treatment of exudative rhinosinusitis with
low frequency ultrasound in Siberian region of Russia |
|
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Dr
Edward Bowen Jones (South Africa)
The KwaZulu Natal Flying Doctor Service: Delivery of province
wide specialist care to rural hospitals |
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2.35 - 3.35pm
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Free Standing Paper Presentations
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|
Paper Session 1 |
| Indigenous
Issues - Chair: Dr Ian Couper |
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Dr
M Qasim Rana (Pakistan)
Pathways to care in health belief model |
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Dr
Margaret Clarke (Canada)
Team development and training in fetal alcohol syndrome in
First Nations Communities in Canada |
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Dr
F A Sudjadi (Indonesia)
Daytime survey on filariasis caused by nonperiodic form of
Brugia malayi among Dayak indigenous people in East Kalimantan,
Indonesia |
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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 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Mr Geoff Lavender |
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Dr
Carl Robbins (Canada)
Information and communication technology in rural health care:
The TEACH Model |
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Dr
John Wootton (Canada)
Implementation of a limited teleradiology network in rural
West Quebec: Barriers and facilitators |
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Dr
Lisa Hudson (Australia)
Technology enabled health care for urban and isolated consumers:
Organizational changes required for sustainability |
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Dr
Douglas Myhre (Canada)
Rural/urban interface as a teaching tool |
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Paper Session 3 |
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Gender Issues - Women's Health - Chair: Dr Ilse Helleman |
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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 |
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Dr
Filomena Incitti (Canada)
Rural Women Physicians: are they unique? |
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Dr
Tanveer Ahmed (Pakistan)
Improving Health Status of Women and Children through Community
Participatory Approach in Rural Sindh |
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Paper Session 4 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Ms Elaine Ward |
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Mrs
Christina West (UK)
Rural-urban morbidity and activity recording project: Issues
of implementing urban systems in rural areas |
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Mr
Andrew McKay (Canada)
Recruitment isn't, and retention's different |
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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 |
|
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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 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Ms Anne Leversha |
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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 |
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Dr
Dr Muhammad Iftikhar Rana (Pakistan)
Medical education in rural health delivery systems in developing
countries |
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Dr
Vikas Bhatia (India)
An interventional study to strengthen first aid healthcare
kit in schools in India |
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Paper Session 6 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Professor Desley Hegney |
|
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Dr
Steve Reid (South Africa)
A training program for supervisors of rural primary care nurse
practitioners in South Africa |
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Dr
Shaiful Bahari Ismail (Malaysia)
Training family doctors - our early experience in Universiti
Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia |
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Ms
Shyamala Nagendran (Canada)
Collaboration of urban and rural centres: positive ways to
provide academic accessibility for rural sites |
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Mr
Huw Clark (Australia)
Urban/rural collaboration in Carnarvon |
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Paper Session 7 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Mr Richard Eccles |
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Dr
Elma De Vries (South Africa)
Do South African rural origin medical students return to rural
practice? |
|
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Dr
Chris Simpson (USA)
Family Practice Resident Satisfaction Survey |
|
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Dr
Phil Heffernan (Australia)
Building partnerships in the South East Asian region: A progress
report on the development of the Cambodian Medical Association |
|
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Dr
Edi Albert (Australia)
Tasmanian Interdisciplinary Rural Placement Program for undergraduate
health science students |
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Paper Session 8 |
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Rural Urban Interface - Chair: Ms Margaret Brown |
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Mr Paul Fitzgerald (Australia)
HEALTHCONNECT: A Health Information Network For All Australians |
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Mrs
Mary Filmer (Australia)
The development and validation of a bereavement support program,
as used by a remote, rural Bush Nursing Centre |
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Dr
H John Fardy (Australia)
Using proactive care and IT to improve rural health outcomes |
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Dr
Hematram Yadav (Malaysia)
Has confidential enquiry into maternal deaths strategy reduced
maternal deaths in Malaysia significantly? |
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3.35 - 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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6.30 for
7.00pm start
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Offical
Conference Dinner - Celebration of 30 Years of Wonca
Black Tie / National Dress
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