Professor Peter Brooks is currently Director of the Australian Health Workforce Institute (AHWI). He has held previous posts Executive Dean of Health Sciences at the University of Queensland, as Professor of Medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney (University of New South Wales) and was the Foundation Professor of Rheumatology at the Royal North Shore Hospital and the University of Sydney. He completed his medical training at Monash University in Melbourne and then studied rheumatology under Professor Watson Buchanan in Glasgow Professor Brooks is a rheumatologist with a major research interest in the treatment and epidemiology of rheumatic diseases. He is a recognised international expert in this area. He has a major interest in medical research, in particular, the linking of basic and clinical research and in internationalisation and the development of postgraduate training. More recently he has developed an interest in health workforce, simulated learning environments and inter-professional learning. He recently established the Australian Health Workforce Institute, at the University of Melbourne which is developing an evidence base for Health Workforce policy and innovation. He is the convenor of SimHealth 2012 -the annual meeting of the ASSH.
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Welcome remarks from the Chair
Keynote: The potential of simulation technology within clinical education
Welcome remarks from the Chair
Professor Wilkinson’s role is strategic leadership and organisational development of Australia’s largest medical schools. Recent achievements include developing a new organisational structure, recruitment of a new leadership team and creation of 10 new Clinical Schools jointly funded with health services, including 1 in Brunei. The School has seen marked expansion in international student recruitment, development of international partners, and a novel global model of medical education established with US partners. Our focus now is expanding the performance management and staff development program, alumni strategy and establishment of a Medical Foundation
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The challenges facing medical placements
James Cook University
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Ian Wronski’s career focus has been on the development of health workforce, health infrastructure, and health research infrastructure in northern Australia, the broader western Pacific and south-east Asian regions, within university, health system, Aboriginal Medical Service and Indigenous health settings.
Ian has been President and Chair of key national advocacy organizations including the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and the Australian Council of Pro Vice-Chancellors and Deans of Health Sciences. He is a Board member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) – Life Sciences Innovation Forum, and a member of the Health Workforce Australia Standing Advisory Committee for Higher Education and Training. In addition, he was the first Director of Health Services of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council and a practicing procedural clinician in the Kimberley region until 1992. In conjunction with Gracelyn Smallwood, Ian was the principal author of the Interim Set of Goals and Target in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, 1991.
Ian has led the development of the health sector at James Cook University at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These target workforce shortages in Indigenous, rural and remote communities and included medicine (the first new medical school established in Australia in 25 years), nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, medical laboratory science, sport and exercise science, clinical exercise physiology, physiotherapy, speech pathology, veterinary science and dentistry.
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The cost of simulated learning
Professor Henderson has an extensive career in nursing education, research and leadership nationally in both academic and clinical settings. She is a clinical academic title holder at Griffith, working collaboratively with senior academic staff and Directors of Nursing to maintain the relevance of curriculum; and also Nursing Director, Education at the Princess Alexandra Hospital where she supervises education initiatives and directives across Metro South District (comprising more than 5,000 nursing staff). She has over 80 publications in international nursing and health refereed journals and a further 10 book chapters. Her work is focused on enhancing teaching, learning and assessment in clinical contexts.
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Facilitating culture change to a clinical learning environment
Building partnerships and capacity for clinical placements
The Australian clinical placement system is stretched to capacity, and will be exaggerated by the influx of students expected with the demand driven funding policy within universities. As health providers struggle to keep up with the increasing demand from education institutions, a cross-sectoral discussion is needed.
Innovation in Clinical Placements is a national conference that will provide an opportunity for government, education institutions and health providers from across Australia to discuss a coordinated national approach to clinical placements.
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