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AREA HEALTH SERVICES AS LEARNING ORGANISATIONS: THE RURAL EXPERIENCE
Author(s) -
Hartley Ross
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
australian journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.48
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1584
pISSN - 1038-5282
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2000.tb00333.x
Subject(s) - professional development , distance education , continuing education , rural area , face (sociological concept) , medical education , rural health , training (meteorology) , health professionals , medicine , nursing , political science , psychology , sociology , health care , pedagogy , geography , social science , pathology , meteorology , law
Staff development units (SDUs) across New South Wales Health are in a state of flux. Traditional models of training may no longer be meeting the continuing professional education needs of staff. This paper outlines how one SDU, the Rural Health Education and Research Centre at Tamworth, with few resources, has successfully negotiated the transformation from delivering ad hoc, face‐to‐face teaching, to a model encompassing competency‐based training, recognition of prior learning, workplace assessment and distance education