October 2012 - KI Doc

GET FOAMed – “quality care, out there”

Published by Tim Leeuwenburg on October 30, 2012

Stay tuned – should be some underground guerilla broadcasting from the “GET FOAMed” mob shortly (GET FOAMed = generalist emergency training free open access meducation) Online hangouts with rural docs and specialists, covering topics to help us all bring ‘quality care, out there’ to rural patients I am so excited…

Is the medical conference dead?

Published by Tim Leeuwenburg on October 29, 2012

Just got back from Fremantle and the #RMA2012 Rural Medicine Australia conference hosted by ACRRM and RDAA. To be honest I was disappointed. Some pearls amongst the three day academic programme. But perhaps recent exposure to high-quality asynchronous #FOAMed learning has raised my expectations. That said attendance was high at over 450 delegates and it …

Rural Medicine Australia is nearly here!

Published by Tim Leeuwenburg on October 18, 2012

Well Rural Medicine Australia 2012 to be held in Fremantle, WA is nearly here. I’ve got 15 mins to talk about my topic of difficult airways and rural docs, which isn’t much. I’ll try and keep it sensible… So in the true spirit of FOAMed, here’s a video on an affordable ‘Rural GP toolkit’. I …

Difficult Airway Equipment and Rural GP Anaesthetists in Australia

Published by Tim Leeuwenburg on October 9, 2012

Well, it’s been almost just over 9 months since I put out a survey to rural GP-Anaesthetists (GPAs) in Australia….was surely tempted to put the results up on this blog back in April/May once the data had been crunched, but I stood on academic convention and deferred discussion until the paper came out – which …