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Medical schools can cooperate: a new joint venture to provide medical education in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales
Author(s) -
Page Sue L,
Birden Hudson H,
Hudson J Nicky,
Thistlethwaite Jill E,
Roberts Chris,
Wilson Ian,
Bushnell John,
Hogg John,
Freedman S Ben,
Yeomans Neville
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01568.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , joint venture , agency (philosophy) , multidisciplinary approach , medical education , joint (building) , medicine , political science , sociology , business , engineering , civil engineering , finance , social science , commerce , law
The medical schools at the University of Western Sydney, University of Wollongong and University of Sydney have developed a joint program for training medical students through placements of up to 40 weeks on the New South Wales North Coast. The new partnership agency — the North Coast Medical Education Collaboration — builds on the experience of regional doctors and their academic partners. A steering committee has identified the availability and support requirements of local practitioners to provide training, and has undertaken a comparative mapping of learning objectives and assessments from the courses of the three universities. The goals of the program include preparing doctors who can perform effectively in rural settings and multidisciplinary health care teams, and to advance research in medical education.