Profiles And Contributions To This Article

The value of best-practice guidelines for OSCEs in a postgraduate program in an Australian remote area setting

qualifications: MHSc

contribution: collected data, input data, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Clinical nurse consultant, Evidence Based Practice

Australia

Project Officer for Office for Learning and Teaching Project 2011-2012; researching OSCEs in rural and remote education.

Marion Mitchell

qualifications: PhD

position: Principal research fellow

Amanda Henderson

qualifications: PhD

position: Nurisng director of education

Australia

Employed by the Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety, University of Sydney as a Research Officer for the Stress, Mental Health and Suicide on Farms Program.

Assoc Prof Sue Lenthall

qualifications: MPH&TM

position: Coordinator

Australia

Sue Lenthall is an academic with practice background as a remote area nurse. She was one of the first teachers with the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Education Program in Queensland, was the Executive Officer for the Council of Remote Areas Nurses of Australia before working as the education coordinator with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in Townsville. She was the foundation course coordinator of the Remote Health Practice program at the Centre for Remote Health and has developed curriculum for a variety of health professionals in rural and remote Australia. She has completed numerous evaluations and research projects related to remote health practice. She completed a PhD in ‘’reducing occupational stress among nurses in very remote Northern Territory and is currently the director of Katherine Campus, Flinders NT. Sue has won a number of awards, including two national teaching awards, a CRANAplus Research and Education award and the Aurora Award for leadership and outstanding contribution to remote area health in Australia.