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Rural workforce a view from Deakin. Gerard Gill Alfred Felton Chair in General Practice in Rural and Regional Victoria. Deakin University School of Medicine. First Intake 2008 First Graduates 2011 130 HECS funded students per intake Medical School at Waurn Ponds Campus Geelong
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Rural workforce a view from Deakin Gerard Gill Alfred Felton Chair in General Practice in Rural and Regional Victoria
Deakin University School of Medicine First Intake 2008 First Graduates 2011 130 HECS funded students per intake Medical School at Waurn Ponds Campus Geelong Clinical Schools at Barwon Health, Ballarat Health, South West Health, Eastern Health and in general practices across Western Victoria.
How does Deakin differ? Post graduate Medical school utilising the 4 year Flinders / St George curriculum Emphasis on regional and rural health Deakin has a commitment to disadvantaged and non metropolitan students Strong distance education focus with Cloud learning IMMERse a first clinical year program based in rural GP settings to learn hospital based disciplines
How is Deakin School of Medicine Structured ? Two GP Professors Alfred Felton Chair at Kardinia Health in Geelong Professor of Rural General Practice at SW Health in Warrnambool Associated senior lecturer positions Clinical tutors in clinical schools IMMERsE program currently based in Camperdown with Medical Educator
Relationships with Regional Training Providers Main Provider is SGPT VMA in Geelong and Bellarine. Beyond Medical Education around Ballarat
Rural Generalist Pathway in Geelong Five year pathway for a number of procedural skills and emergency medicine hospital rotations combined with RACGP or ACRRM Fellowship.
Rural Generalist Pathway in Geelong II Need for hospital progression means that rural GP experience is last. Overtraining requirements from hospital based proceduralists Need for non proceduralist terms eg psychiatry general medicine and palliative care. Single program with lateral entry problematic
Proposed Model for Warrnambool Community Intern Positions PGPPP Rural Generalist Pathway
NBN Teaching Trial Site In Geelong trialling with Wollongong, Notre Dame, Newcastle and New England on line vertical integration of teaching material delivery. DoHA sponsored trial.
Academic Registrars SGPT funding for an academic registrar position in Western Arm Research and Teaching development. Deakin Professors and their Research Assistants provide support.
Identified Problems in Deakin Catchment Ageing workforce Lack of teaching spaces Wrong Business Model Learned incompetence Move into partialisation Lack of specialist support
Identified Problems II Non IMMERsE students get no rural GP experience Need to develop teachers Needs for new models of teaching Need for better partialist teaching eg IUD insertion Skills maintenance for proceduralists Interdisciplinary learning
Identified Problems III Dealing with medical student perceptions Rural practice as phase of one’s medical life journey Economic viability of generalist skills in Victoria Educational opportunities for CME/ Family / new location. Family matters