Profiles And Contributions To This Article

Supporting international medical graduates in rural Australia: a mixed methods evaluation

Alistair  Wright

Alistair Wright

qualifications: FRACP

contribution: original concept, designed the project, contributed to drafts, collected data

position: Director of Medicine and Critical Care


Melanie  Regan

Melanie Regan

qualifications: MNsg

contribution: literature review, designed the project, collected data, contributed to drafts

position: Project manager


Cathy  Haigh

Cathy Haigh

qualifications: PhD

contribution: collected data, contributed to drafts

position: Senior lecturer

Australia

Dr. Cathy Haigh works at the Gippsland Regional Clinical School which is part of Monash University's School of Rural Health, supporting medical students and educators during the first clinical learning years. She is interested in investigating opportunistic learning, workplace based assessment and the development of clinical reasoning.


Irum  Sunderji

Irum Sunderji

qualifications: BSc

contribution: literature review, collected data, input data, contributed to drafts

position: Graduate student


Priyanga  Vijayakumar

Priyanga Vijayakumar

qualifications: BSc

contribution: literature review, collected data, input data, contributed to drafts

position: Graduate student


Cathy  Smith

Cathy Smith

qualifications: PhD

contribution: literature review, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Lecturer


Debra  Nestel

Debra Nestel

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, wrote the first draft, supervised data collection

position: Professor

Australia

Research interests: Simulation-based education, qualitative research methods, simulated patient methodology, clinical communication, surgical education


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