qualifications: PhD
contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Lecturer, Clinical Educator Development
qualifications: MEd
contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Lecturer, Paramedicine
Senior Advanced Care II Paramedic (Queensland Ambulance Service) Lecturer in Paramedicine (University of Southern Queensland) Clinical Placement Coordinator (University of Southern Queensland) School Co-orodinator Learning and Teaching (USQ) Former Lecturer Paramedicine (ACU) Acting Discipline Lead Paramedicine (USQ) Former HoD Waiopehu College (NZ) PhD (candidate) University of Southern Queensland
qualifications: MHlthSci
contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching)
qualifications: PhD
contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Academic Lead (Research)
Australia
I am a radiographer/academic and Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health. I am based in Taree on the New South Wales Mid-North Coast, where I look after undergrad and postgrad students, organise continuing education for clinical colleagues and research rural health and interprofessional workforce issues. I am interested in interprofessional boundaries in rural health care delivery and their effect on service quality and efficiency. The topic of my PhD, which I completed in 2006, was the role of nurse and GP limited license x-ray operators in remote and rural NSW. It was a qualitative study using in-depth interviews of rural radiographers, rural nurses and rural GPs about their experiences and perceptions surrounding limited x-ray licensing of non-radiographers. I also have extensive cross-disciplinary teaching experience in this field. This has led me to explore issues of rural health professional practice and workforce planning. My current area of interest is the boundaries that exist betwwen health professionals in rural practice.
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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