ALL DAY
9.00am - 5.00pm |
 Free
Standing Poster Expo |
7.30 - 9.00am
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 Consumers
Forum and Breakfast
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9.00 - 10.30am
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| Keynote
Addresses - Chair: Ms Di Wyatt |
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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 |
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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? |
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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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Facilitated
Posters Presentations
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11.00am - 4.00pm
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 Clinical
Skills Program
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11.00am - 12.30pm
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Parallel Symposia
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Concurrent Symposia 1 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Ms Di Wyatt |
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Dr
David Rosenthal (Australia)
Rural/Urban Interface: an Australian Aspect |
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Ms
Katherine Bentley
Partnerships in Rural Health Care |
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Dr
Ian Couper (South Africa)
Management of Rural Health Services- Exploring Success |
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Dr
Prem Kainikkara (India)
High quality healthcare without huge resources: The Kerala
experience |
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Concurrent Symposia 2 |
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Indigenous Issues - Chair: Mr Ben Knight |
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Associate
Professor Elaine Duffy (Australia)
Constructing Indigenous Women's Health and Indigenous Health
Policies |
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Dr
David Whittet (New Zealand)
Developing Family Medicine in Regions of Extreme Need |
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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 |
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Innovation Education - Chair: Professor Shatendra Gupta |
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Professor
Richard Hays (Australia)
Developing health education to address recruitment and retention
issues |
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Dr Fortunato
Cristobal (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 |
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Dr
Jim Rourke (Canada)
Building the Northern Ontario Rural Medical School |
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11.00am - 12.30pm
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Free Standing Paper Presentations
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Paper Session 1 |
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Rural Students Multidisciplinary Forum - Chair: Glenn
Matthieson |
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Mr James
Ward (Australia)
The National Rural Health Network (NRHN): Presenting the network
of rural student clubs in Australia |
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Ms Kelly
Bertrum (Australia)
Report from the NRNH pre-Wonca Symposium "Celebrating
Rural Life" |
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A facilitated
student workshop:
Can students contribute to the health of communities in the
developing world? |
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Paper Session 2 |
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Gender Issues - Chair: Dr Berta Nunes |
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Ms
Kirsty McEwin (Australia)
Evidence based rural health recruitment and retention policies
for female medical practitioners |
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Dr
Angela Taft (Australia)
Rural GPs, gender and psychosocial caseloads: lessons from
a study of rural family practice and intimate partner abuse |
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Dr Muhammad Iftikhar Rana (Pakistan)
Role of Family Physician in Family Planning in Pakistan |
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Mrs
Sarah Hardy
Developing menopause education resources to reflect the needs
of the rural and remote women |
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Dr
Lindiwe Selepe (South Africa)
A descriptive study of the determinants of sexual behaviour
knowledge in black South African teenagers |
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Paper Session 3 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr John Macleod |
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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 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Dr Steve Reid |
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Dr
Pratap Narayan Prasad (Nepal)
Surgery in rural Nepal |
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Dr
Derek Allen (Vanuatu)
The power of two on a remote Pacific Island |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dr
Colville Laird (Scotland)
Training rural doctors for emergency care - The Tartan solution |
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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 |
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Ms Anna Nichols (Australia)
Rurally based training for junior doctors |
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Dr Gordon Peterkin (Scotland)
Proposed Remote Telemedicine Project: GRAMPIAN PRIMARY CARE
NHS TRUST |
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| 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
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Lunch
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| 1.30
- 3.30pm |
Workshops |
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1.30 - 2.30pm
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Free Standing Paper Presentations
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Paper Session 1 |
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Indigenous Issues - Chair: Mr Peter Craighead |
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Dr
Elizabeth Chalmers (Australia)
The role of a University Department of Rural Health in assisting
with remote community regional planning |
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Dr
Muzaffar Ali Sh (Pakistan)
Incidence of Hepatitis in Rural Punjab - Pakistan |
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Ms
Belinda Wozencroft (Australia)
From the edge of Lake Dora |
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Dr
D A Cameron (South Africa)
Empowerment of rural traditional healers |
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Paper Session 2 |
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Gender Issues - Chair: Karen Francis |
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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 |
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Ms Jo
Wainer (India)
Gender perspective in medicine. |
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Mrs
Nitu Sharan (Shekhar) (India)
Domestic Violence and Indian Women's Health |
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Dr
Themba Dlomo (South Africa)
Working together with women for health |
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Paper Session 3 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Dr George Somers |
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Ms
Anne Leversha (Australia)
Rural community pharmacy videoconferencing project |
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Ms
Helen Howarth (Australia)
For professional satisfaction: Work with other professionals |
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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 |
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Professor
M W Krause (South Africa)
An outcomes-based education and training program for physiotherapy |
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Paper Session 4 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr Charles Boelen |
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Dr
David Cameron (South Africa)
Are nurses the answer to the health needs of rural South Africa? |
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Dr
Ruth McNair (Australia)
Educating for a sustainable rural workforce by building team
working capacity |
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Miss
Mary-Ann Grieve (Australia)
Recruitment through provision and promotion of positive undergraduate
rural health experiences |
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Paper Session 5 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Dr Victor Inem |
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Dr
M Tariq Aziz (Pakistan)
Resurgence of resistant tuberculosis in rural areas |
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Dr
John Macleod (Scotland)
Potato skins |
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Dr
Andrew Marsden (UK)
Increasing the uptake of pre-hospital thrombolysis in the
remote communities: joint delivery between the GP and the
ambulance service |
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Dr
James Douglas (Scotland)
Occupational health in salmon farming and processing in a
new rural industry for Scotland |
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Paper Session 6 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr David Topps |
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Professor
Desley Hegney (Australia)
Factors influencing recruitment and retention of rural and
remote area nurses in Queensland |
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Dr
John B Coombs (USA)
R.U.O.P.: An elective rural clerkship in a decentralized medical
education program |
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Dr
Jennifer Reath (Australia)
Practical strategies in supporting general practitioners working
and training in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communites |
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Mr
Chris Ward (Australia)
A cooperative approach to sustainable rural general practice
in neighbouring towns |
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Paper Session 7 |
Recruitment and Retention of Rural Health Workforce -
Chair: Dr David Whittet |
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Dr
Christopher Hogan (Australia)
An education program for the clinical nurse in GP practice |
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Dr
Roger Sexton (Australia)
Healthy doctors make a healthy community |
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Mrs
Terri Taylor (Canada)
Rural Physician Spouse Network: A key piece of the retention
puzzle |
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Mr
Huei-Ming Chai (Taiwan)
Physical therapy services for the survivors from the Taiwan
921 earthquake |
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Paper Session 8 |
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Rural/Urban Interface - Chair: Mr Gordon Gregory |
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Dr
Barbara Solarsh (South Africa)
Rehabilitation for rural people with disability - Services
for the people by the people |
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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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2.35 - 3.35pm
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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
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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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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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 Ron Gorsche (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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3.35 - 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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6.30pm for
7.00pm start
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BBQ and Bush Dance
Casual
Dress
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