Podcasts
Building a rural and remote health workforce with place-based education
National Rural Health Commissioner, Adjunct Professor Ruth Stewart and Professor Richard Murray
Today we are discussing the supplement in the Medical Journal of Australia from the Office of the Rural Health Commissioner on the theme: building a rural and remote workforce with place-based education. My guests are the National Rural Health Commissioner, Adjunct Professor Ruth Stewart and Professor Richard Murray, who is the Dean of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University and the immediate past president of the Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand. Read the supplement: http...
Improving regional health outcomes, with A/Prof. Bernadette Ward and Dr Pam Harvey
A/Prof. Bernadette Ward and Dr Pam Harvey
Today we are discussing improve health outcomes in regional Australia. My guests are A/Prof. Bernadette Ward and Dr Pam Harvey, both at the School of Rural Health, at Monash University in Bendigo. With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 17 mins.
TrialHub: access to clinical trials for regional and rural Australians, with Anne Woollett
Anne Woollett
Vol 216, Issue 8: 2 May 2022. Anne Woollett is the Director of TrialHub, a partnership between Alfred Health in Melbourne and hospitals in outer metro, regional and rural hospitals across Victoria, to give greater access to clinical trials for non-urban Australians. To accompany her InSight+ op-ed. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 19 mins, 38 secs.
Rural retention following rural clinical school experience, with Dr Alexa Seal and A/Prof Matthew McGrail
Dr Alexa Seal and Associate Professor Matthew McGrail
Vol 216, Issue 7: 11 April 2022. Dr Alexa Seal is a Research Fellow at University of Notre Dame Australia's Rural Clinical School at Wagga Wagga. Associate Professor Matthew McGrail is Head of Rural Training Hubs Research in the Rural Clinical Schools Program at the University of Queensland. Their coauthored research is published by the MJA, where it is open access. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 24mins, 23 secs.
Maldistribution of Australia's rural medical workforce, with Prof Jennifer May and Prof Anthony Scott
Professor Jennifer May and Professor Anthony Scott
Vol 215, Issue 1: 5 July 2021. Professor Jennifer May is Director of the Department of Rural Health at the University of Newcastle. Professor Anthony Scott is a health economist at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research. They discuss the many layers and stakeholders involved in solving the problems of Australia's maldistributed rural medical workforce to accompany their editorial at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/1/road-less-travelled-supporting-physicians-pr...
Conversation with the National Rural Health Commissioner, Prof Ruth Stewart
Professor Ruth Stewart
Vol 213, Issue 11: 7 December 2020. Professor Ruth Stewart is the National Rural Health Commissioner. She talks about the disparities between urban and rural/remote health care, COVID-19's hostile reception in rural communities, and "seagull" researchers. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 20 mins, 38 secs.
National Rural Generalist Pathway, with Em Prof Paul Worley
Emeritus Professor Paul Worley
Vol 211, Issue 2: 8 July 2019. Emeritus Professor Paul Worley is the National Rural Health Commissioner. He discusses the National Rural Generalist Pathway, and the ways in which it will revitalise general practice and generalism in the Bush. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 27 mins, 30 secs
Student intent to practice rurally, with A/Prof Denese Playford & Prof Ian Puddey
A/Prof Denese Playford and Prof Ian Puddey
Volume 207, Issue 4: 21 August 2017. Associate Professor Denese Playford and Professor Ian Puddey from the University of Western Australia discuss their research on the influence of medical student origin, intention and immersion experience on their decision to practice rurally. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.
Specialist rural outreach, with Dr Belinda O'Sullivan
Dr Belinda O'Sullivan
Volume 207, Issue 3: 7 August 2017. Dr Belinda O'Sullivan is a research fellow at Monash University's School of Rural Health in Bendigo. She discusses the demographics of rural specialist outreach -- who does it, for how long, and where. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
MJA Centenary Series 15
Dr Ian Kamerman
Dr Ian Kamerman, president of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia, speaks with the MJA's engagement editor Cate Swannell about health care inequities between cities and the bush, as well as the joys of practicing in rural and remote Australia.