Well, good news today – have just heard that my ePoster and a 20 min talk on two different subjects have been accepted for SMACC2013 Whoo hoo – looking forward to see other SMACCheads in Sydney next March. Weingart, Le Cong, Du Canto, Cadogan, Finfer, Carley etc…and now Leeuwenburg ! I promise no bulletpoints – […]
Well it seems that some country doctors in SA remain embroiled in dispute over on call contracts with Country Health SA. The last contract expired in Nov 2011 and was supposed to be replaced by a contract offering improved terms for rural doctors who offer on call VMO services to public hospitals in addition to
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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…
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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
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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
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