Category Archives: health workforce

Are pharmacists really so inward looking?

November 11, 2009 – 1:43 pm

I have a story in the Crikey bulletin today, that asks the question: Are pharmacists the most defensive, insular and change resistant of all the health professions?
It’s about how health reform advocate John Menadue was “disinvited” from speaking at an Australian College of Pharmacy meeting, after making a provocative speech to a pharmacy conference, as [...]

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Let’s shake up the debate about medical training

November 10, 2009 – 9:17 am

Health workforce maldistribution and shortages, and the oncoming tsunami of medical graduates are generating widespread discussions about the future of health and medical training in the context of moves towards health reform.
Professor Bruce Robinson, dean of medicine at the University of Sydney, has recently suggested that one solution may be to broaden the range of [...]

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Sounding a wake-up call for postgraduate medical education

October 14, 2009 – 1:47 pm

Australia’s international reputation in education has been taking something of a hammering lately. Attacks on overseas students have generated bucketloads of adverse publicity, and the uncertain future facing many international medical students is another issue that won’t go away anytime soon.
Professor Bruce Robinson, dean of medicine at the University of Sydney, thinks one solution may [...]

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Is this the future? Clinicians as “care deniers”?

October 13, 2009 – 10:41 am

A book that was released some years ago examining the impact of market-based reforms of the National Health Service in the UK gives us some timely insights into where Australia is heading.
That’s the warning from Dr Peter Short, a health industry worker with extensive background in clinical work and health professional education, who has provided [...]

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