qualifications: FRACGP
position: Professor and Head of School
Australia
I qualified in London but came to this country in 1959 as a "Ten Pound Pom "to be a rural GP. In 1976 I was a foundation member of the Medical School at the University of Newcastle NSW. I retired in 1997 as Emeritus Professor of General Practice and went to live in Wagga Wagga. I practiced part time, but began to work for the UNSW Rural Clinical School when it started in Wagga in 1999. I have been Director since 2002 and retired again in early 2005. At that stage the Director of education for Coast City Country RTP resigned and I held that position for a year before reverting to Senior medical educator. I remain actively involved, but have reduced my time committments significantly.(Updated Dec 2008)
Creating positive early rural placements in medical education
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Discharge against medical advice in rural and remote emergency departments
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Retention of early-career GPs as independent specialists in former training practices
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Rural GP Association of Scotland (RGPAS) Annual Conference #RGPAS24, 15–17 November 2024, Inverness, Scotland
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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