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Vol 7 Issue 4| December 2013

Welcome to the final edition of Flinders NT Matters for 2013. On behalf of Flinders NT I would like to wish everyone – students, staff and stakeholders – a happy, healthy and prosperous 2014. Thank you to you all for your assistance, dedication and inspira-tion throughout 2013. 2014 sees many developments across our various ventures and sites including new infrastructure, new curriculum development, and the first graduating year of the Doctor of Medicine from the NT Medical Program. We are all proud of these achieve-ments and look forward to working with our partners to further our aims and goals to provide

innovative health research, education and workforce develop-ment in the Northern Territory. Flinders University will be closed from 1pm on Friday, 20 December 2013 and the University will re-open on Thursday, 2 January 2014. We wish you a Happy Christmas and look forward to working with you to make 2014 an Inspiring Year. Regards and farewell from me, Sarah Professor Sarah Strasser, Associate Dean, Flinders NT December 2013 flinders.edu.au/nt-medical-program Below: Sarah sails away……. with Dr Sarah Chalmers in Nhulunbuy earlier this month. Bon Voyage….

Medical Course Admissions Review 2

Registrations Open: 2014 Muster 2

NT Course Development Committee 3

Community Engagement Activities: ITP Community Information Evening

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StARRH Events 4

Poche Centre 6

Centre for Remote Health 7

Centre for Remote Health

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Alice Springs Remote Clinical School

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Katherine Remote Clinical School 10

Katherine Remote Clinical School 11

Katherine Remote Clinical School 12

Katherine Remote Clinical School 13

Staff Updates 14

Inside this issue:

2013 Flinders BMBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) / Doctor of Medicine (MD) Qualifying Ceremony Monday 16 December

GAMSAT registration open until 1 February 2014

Indigenous Entry Stream Applications open 2nd January 2014 and close Monday 31st March 2014.

Flinders 2014 Muster, Uluru, 27-30 October 2014

Flinders University closed from 1pm Friday, 20 December 2013 and will re-open on Thursday, 2 January 2014.

NT Course Development Committee Meeting, 16 December 2013

NT Medical Program Survival Day Celebration, CDU, Friday 24 January 2014

Events

Welcome to the final edition of Flinders NT Matters for 2013. If you have any articles you would like to submit for the first edition of the Newsletter for 2014, please email the editor, Lila Loveard on lila.loveard@flinders.edu.au

Flinders NT acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians across the lands on which we live and work and we pay our respects to elders past, present and future.

   

   

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Registrations Open: 2014 Muster, Uluru, Northern Territory

The 2014 Muster is the fourth conference to be hosted by Flinders University and Northern Ontario School of Medicine.  Partners in presenting the 2014 Muster are James Cook University, Federation of Rural Australian Medical Educators (FRAME), Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet) and Consortium of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (CLIC). 

We are excited to announce the Global Community Engaged Medical Education Muster will take place from 27-30 October 2014 at Voyages Ayers Rock Resort, adjacent to Uluru. ‘The Muster' will bring together internationally recognised leaders in community engaged medical education and will continue to stimulate important discussions about key concepts and practices at the forefront of medical education: Longitudinal Learning, Community Engagement, Social Accountability and Aboriginal Health. Muster 2014 Registrations: NOW OPEN Registration is now open, but get in quick - the early bird rate applies to the first 75 applicants, so register as soon as possible to take advantage of this great price. Abstract Submissions: NOW OPEN The 2014 Muster Organising Committee extends an invitation to you to submit one or more abstracts. The online abstracts submission form is now open at flinders.edu.au/muster2014. The abstract streams for the 2014 Muster are Longitudinal Learning,

Community Engagement, Social Accountability and Aboriginal Health. Abstract submission Dates: Abstract submission opens on 1 December 2013 Abstract submission closes on 1 April 2014 Abstract approval date 1 May 2014 Abstract confirmation date 16 May 2014 Keep Updated To sign up to the 2014 Muster mailing list, please complete the short form at flinders.edu.au/muster2014.

Medical Course Admissions Review Paul Worley

Review process. Emeritus Professor David Prideaux facilitated the workshop, with Executive support provided by Mark Rohde.

When Flinders University introduced the first Graduate Entry Program in Australia in 1996, it heralded a trend nationally in the development of other graduate programs. At the time, Flinders engaged in a consultative approach to determine the expectations of the different communities we serve, in order to

inform our approach to medical student selection. Now, some 17 years later, it is timely to review the types of students we want to admit and the tools and approaches we use to select them.

The School of Medicine hosted an important workshop on 10th December to begin an Admissions

Above: Uluru, the site of the 2014 Global Community Engaged Medical Education Muster

NT Medical Program News

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Community Engagement Activities Kelly-Anne Browne

On Wednesday 13th November the public was invited to attend an Indigenous Pathways Community Information evening.

Attendees included Year 12 students, a Year 11 student and 2nd Year Nursing students from Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education

The session was a great success and thanks must go to Natalie Milic, BCSC Course Coordinator; BCSC students; Cheryl Davis, Bilawara Lee and Kelly-Anne from NTMP; and Kelli McIntosh, NTMP student for assistance.

NT Medical Program News

Above: Cheryl Davis, Indigenous Health Lecturer from the NT Medical Program, speaks to potential Indigenous medical students at a recent information evening. Below left: Year 9 students travelled from Arnhemland to take part in the Conoco Phillips Science Experience. Students participated in hands on activities at NT Medical Program. Below right: Year 9 students check the pulse of a mannequin at NT Medical Program as part of the Conoco Phillips Science Experience.

NT Course Development Committee Narelle Campbell The NT Course Development Committee (NTCDC) is a newly established committee formed to progress the delivery and development of the Flinders MD for the Northern Territory context while retaining the core learning objectives and assessment activities that are essential to the degree’s integrity. The Committee subsequently makes recommendations to the Medical Course Committee.

Chaired by Narelle Campbell (Interim Chair), the NT Medical Program’s Director of Clinical and Interprofessional Education, the Committee has met twice in November (11th and 25th) and will meet on 16th December before the University closes for Christmas.

Video conferenced across five teaching sites (Darwin, Katherine, Nhulunbuy, Alice Springs and Adelaide), engagement at the meetings has been high with more than 40 enthusiastic people having

been involved. Representatives have attended from Flinders NT, the NT Department of Health, NT Department of Remote Health, Aboriginal Medical Services, hospitals and general practice.

Thank you to all who contributed to these meetings and I look forward to meeting with you again in 2014.

If you would like to find out more about the Committee please contact: Narelle Campbell, Acting Chair narelle.campbell@flinders.edu.au

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As the year winds down to an end, StARRH continues to support our members to engage with rural, remote and Indigenous health. StARRH hosted Territory Tough: Katherine 2013 on the weekend of 25-27 October. 24 members undertook the challenge, including three second year medical students undertaking their Rural Community Week from Bedford Park (FURHS Rural Health Club), three from the University of Notre Dame Broome campus (KRASH Rural Health Club), members from the University of Wollongong (SHARP Rural Health Club) and the University of Queensland (Club RHINO). Territory Tough offered an interactive and practical orientation to a rural environment. One group completed a two day introductory 4WD driving course; while the second group completed a day kayak on the Katherine River and a tour of Cutta Cutta caves and local hot springs. There were some amazing times and adventures had by all. A massive thank you to the Katherine

students, particularly Kevin Heslop, for their kind assistance with the weekend event; it would not have been possible without your dedication and support. StARRH is also very proud to have held our AGM and Christmas Wrap up on 7 November. We are pleased to have a fantastic and enthusiastic Executive team working for the members of StARRH in 2014, consisting of: President: Felix Ho (Medicine) Vice President: Khadijah Nadeem (3rd year Clinical Science / 1st Year Medicine 2014) Secretary: Monica Mu (3rd year Clinical Science / 1st Year Medicine 2014) Treasurer: Dzung Tran (Pharmacy)

NRHSN Senior Representative: Pawan Koirala (3rd year Clinical Science / 1st year Medicine 2014) NRHSN Junior Representative: Stevie Cosentino (2nd year Clinical Science) The remaining members of the general committee, including the rest of the discipline representatives, will be elected early in the new academic year. Special thanks to Eliza Gill and Monica Barolits-McCabe from Flinders NT for assisting StARRH with the AGM and elections of the Returning Officers. The 2014 team looks forward to working with all members and our stakeholders to bring a positive promotion of rural, remote and Indigenous health for all health student members. Please do check out our website, www.starrh.nrhsn.org.au or feel free to pop an email to info@starrh.com.au for more details of our upcoming 2014 events!

StARRH Events

Below: 2014 StARRH Executive committee and some general committee members Below right: Territory Tough: Katherine 2013 4WD course

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A busy year is coming to the end, but not without the same flurry of activity that started 2013. We have said goodbye to the first cohort of LIC medical students, who were supported by John Reid as their Indigenous Health Mentor. Colleen Hayes and John met the 2014 cohort, and Colleen will also provide support to the students next year. Poche Alice Springs staff also helped to facilitate and present at the Adelaide Racism Symposium which was a highly successful event. The aim of the symposium was to gain traction for change within health services to ensure that the impact of racism and discrimination do not continue to affect the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. John Reid and Kerry Taylor delivered a presentation on behalf of the Purple House Renal Dialysis Service on combatting racism through ‘resilience, determination, capacity and compassion’. Kerry Taylor stayed on in Adelaide as an invited presenter at a Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Management & Education Course, on the topic of Cultural Frame-works and their relevance to diabetes education, while John Reid attended the Indigenous Allied Health Conference. Following our Adelaide activities, Kerry presented at the Aboriginal Staff Alliance as an invited speaker to examine ways to enhance the Alliance’s publication output. This has resulted in potential collabora-

tions between Poche Alice Springs who have a brief to build capacity of Indigenous health professionals.

Poche Scholarship holder, Maree Meredith also recently ran a work-shop in Fregon as part of her PhD research into the health benefits of art centres in the APY Lands. As part of the research process, Maree invited Dr Annabelle Wilson from Flinders Adelaide to attend with Kerry Taylor, to consult with the Art Centre participants about their requests to develop a nutrition knowledge transfer program for the artists and the community. The artists recognised the need for better understanding of nutrition in order to stay well and be able to continue the valuable work of the art centres. Poche Alice Springs also hosted more of their seminar series, including a presentation by Dr Lloyd Einsiedel on his research around HTLV1 and more recently, staff from the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress presented “Working with Aboriginal children and their families – a culturally sensitive approach”. All the semi-nar series have been well attended and next year it is proposed that

Poche Alice Springs use the series to showcase Indigenous present-ers and Indigenous research.

Colleen and Kerry were also pleased to be acknowledged by the Australasian College of Emer-gency Medicine for their contribu-tion to the Indigenous Health Cultural Competency project this year (photo below).

On behalf of the team at Poche Alice Springs, we would like to wish everyone a safe and happy break over Christmas for those taking a break. We would also like to acknowledge the support of Professor Sarah Strasser and wish her well for the future. We hope that Poche Alice Springs will con-tinue to grow, strengthen and achieve even more positive out-comes in 2014. Regards, John, Colleen, Maria, Ella and Kerry.

Kerry Taylor

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PhD candidate Maree Meredith (r) at workshop in Fregon.

Poche Seminar Series: Dr Lloyd Einsedel presenting on HTLV1 research.

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For the first time the Centre for Remote Health in Alice Springs had the privilege of hosting the 2nd Year NT Medical Program class for Regional Community Week. It was an exciting and busy week for all concerned and exceeded expectations of those involved. The aim of the week was to give students an introduction to research skills while highlighting the challenges and differences in providing health services in rural and remote areas. This was achieved through a daily lecture from experts in the field and working in groups to complete a short research project culminating

in excellent presentations by all students on the final morning. The work of all student groups has been presented to the Alice Springs Hospital Executive and forms part of an ongoing program of quality improvement projects at the Centre for Remote Health. During the week students worked together with local health service partners to collect and analyse data, collate results, draw conclusions and make recommendations. In addition, they visited the local Aboriginal Medical Service (Central Australian Aboriginal Congress), visited local cultural heritage sites and had

dinner with community members and local leaders. All students found the week useful preparation for future research and some of their feedback includes: “increased my interests and my confidence in participating in research”; “an opportunity to see how health services outside of capital cities work” ; “consolidated ideas and perceptions”; “lack of resources, continuity of care and consistency in health practice were some of the local challenges identified”.

Expectations Exceeded Carole Reeve Research Experience and Community Engagement in One Frantic Week

Ambulance Chasing to Reptile Cuddling – Carole Reeve Alice Springs Experience an Eye Opener for Adelaide Students

Centre for Remote Health News

Having 7 enthusiastic Adelaide 2nd year students doing their regional community week at the Centre for Remote Health in Alice Springs was a breath of fresh air for the rural clinical school team and an eye opening experience for the students. Like the 2nd year NTMP students, Adelaide students had the opportunity to do a short research project in partnership with Alice Springs Hospital on quality improvement of hospital discharge summaries. They used an audit of discharge summary quality and timeliness performed by a previous cohort of Darwin medical students, ran focus groups and analysed surveys completed by hospital doctors around barriers and enablers to timely and quality discharge summaries. The work of both student groups will be presented to the hospital executive

and form part of a quality improvement project. All students said they would recommend the week and some of their comments included: “fantastic insight into this area”; “Interested how engaged with the community you become” ;

“Huge eye opener, not only the research but the orientation & cultural activities in particular really highlighted issues in rural health care” ; “to gain insight into factors affecting health of Indigenous people in the area for a different experience - Alice Springs is unique”. .

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Centre for Remote Health News

New Funding for CRH Projects Annie, Melissa and Heather

CRH staff have been successful in attracting funding to continue development of their education programs for health and community care staff in remote and Indigenous communities. 2014 will be very busy for Melissa Lindeman, Heather Jensen and Annie Farthing who have been contracted by the Dementia Training Study Centre of SA/NT to provide their successful short course to a National audience. The course, “Recognising and responding to dementia in Indigenous communities”, has received excellent feedback in the five years that it has been running. In the new contract, the materials will be updated and adapted for different contexts, and will be delivered in Adelaide, Alice Springs, Melbourne and Sydney in the first half of 2014.

New funding was received from the Rural Health Continuing Education Grant to develop a new short course on “Assessment, care planning and care coordination in rural and remote communities”.

This will be a collaboration with the National Ageing Research Institute in Victoria. A program will be developed that can be run in both rural and remote contexts by the two organisations on a continuing fee-paying basis. A pilot short course will be offered in Katherine in 2014.

Above l-r: Annie Farthing, Melissa Lindeman and Heather Jensen

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Alice Springs Remote Clinical School News

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Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship in Alice Debbie Fearon

In 2013, the Alice Springs campus of the NTRCS introduced a pilot Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) with places for four Third Year NTMP students. The program was tentatively called “Akaltye-irreme Atengentyele”, which means “Learning through Cooperation” in Arrernte. However, it has commonly become known as the Alice Springs LIFT (Longitudinal Integrated Flinders Term) program. This program was established in the tradition of Flinders University- providing innovative teaching environments for medical students. A similar program was also piloted at Flinders Medical Centre for 8 students in 2013. The underlying principles for the Alice Springs LIFT program are: 1.Continuity: with place, staff, patients and peers; 2.Integration of experiences in different disciplines of medicine; 3.Developing experience in assessing the undifferentiated patient with an emphasis on clinical reasoning; 4.Developing culturally safe practice; and 5. Recognition of the importance of the socioeconomic determinants of health Initial evaluation of the program after the first six months was mixed. Extensive consultation with students and clinicians was undertaken and as a result, changes have been made for the program in 2014.

Recommendations from the mid-year evaluation were: 1. Improved preceptor selection and education; 2. More extensive orientation; 3. Protected inpatient time for the students; 4. Improved patient panel selection; 5. An authentic role for students in ED; 6. More extensive training in the use of relevant IT resources; 7. More extensive monitoring of student progress; 8. Formalised evaluation of the benefits and detriments of the LIFT program; and 9. Improved engagement with relevant stakeholders: clients, health providers, and community organisations. We anticipate that next year’s students will have a more structured timetable but believe that the program will still encompass the underlying

principles of a longitudinal integrated clerkship. In recognition of the need for more extensive orientation, we have already had next year’s students attend a 3-week rotation in Alice Springs Hospital as part of their Introduction to Clinical Practice program. This was very successful and we look forward to those students returning to Alice Springs for their Third Year in January 2014. The 2013 students have now finished their end-of-year exams. We are excited to announce that they have all done very well. They are all expected to do Fourth Year rotations in Alice Springs Hospital next year, and we look forward to having them back.

Above: Alice Springs Photo: Peter Wylllie

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Katherine Remote Clinical School News

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Service learning models are rarely implemented by Universities in Australia when compared to the United States or Canada. This model offers students the opportunity to collaborate with community groups who do not have ready access to Allied Health services, and to develop programs which support participation and promote health and well-being in schools. The Katherine Speech Pathology pilot stems from a public event –the 2012 Mini Conference on “Community Well-being: Sharing the good stories” – held by A/Professor Pascale Dettwiller in Katherine in November 2012. Since then a partnership between Flinders NT, Broken Hill UDRH and the University of Sydney has made the implementation possible at one site: Clyde Fenton Primary School in Katherine where a number of Binjari Community students are enrolled. Flinders NT has developed a strong relationship with Binjari Community Aboriginal Corporation over the last few years. This school-based Allied Health student-led clinic is part of the common interest the two organisations have in ’growing healthy children’ for the future of the community. A grant from the Smith Family, Katherine, has made the pilot feasible and a genuinely community led project. This is what underpins community service learning projects. On the 30 September 2013 four speech pathology Master students arrived in Darwin: Ami Mizzi, Sarah Inglis, Lauren McIntosh and Katherine Westbrook. The Indigenous Transition Pathway lecturers provided students a whole day of information, ranging from history to parental testimonials about the struggle parents from rural and remote areas face in the NT in finding speech pathology services.

Fran Edis, Speech Pathologist in Darwin and Flinders NT lecturer, introduced the four students to the local speech pathology environment including ‘ear infections and audiology matters’ which affect language abilities and early childhood development. (continued page 11)

Community Service Learning Project Pascale Dettwiller

Above Back row l-r: Sandy Cartwright Prin-cipal Clyde Fenton, Jody Locke from the office of The Hon Bess Price MLA; Huia Haerewa from the office of MS Larisa Lee MLA; Claire Brunero, Academic Speech Pathology from Broken Hill; Katherine Westbrook, Master student SP, Uni Sydney; Deb Jones, Project Lead from Broken Hill; Pascale Dettwiller, Project Manager from Flinders NT Katherine Front row l-r: Amy Mizzy, Master student SP Uni Sydney; Sarah Inglis, Master student SP Uni Sydney; Lauren McIntosh, Master student SP Uni Sydney Below: Speech Pathology students with Academic support staff from Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health.

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The next five weeks were a roller coaster journey for the four students who were immersed at Clyde Fenton Primary School most of the day, participating in activities and running their own clinic on site. Each of speech pathology Master students cared for 3 pupils working individually, or in groups, in the class where teachers are an invaluable support to their practice. Students had regular catch-ups with the parents at Binjari, Kalano and in town, making for a holistic experience for the speech pathology students. Sandy Cartwright, Clyde Fenton Principal, and her team provided on-site daily support while Claire Brunero (Speech Supervisor seconded

from Broken Hill UDRH) provided the professional support on-site. According to one of the Speech Pathology students, “….these kids would have had no therapy without us; we had a unique experience with them and their parents, developing a new Allied Health service delivery at Clyde Fenton….”. Another student commented that she would ”….consider a rural position after my experience on this placement….”. During the last week of the placement a public seminar was organised with attendees and guests from Charles Darwin University (School of Education), NT Health and Allied Health from

Katherine District Hospital. This was an opportunity to inform guests about the partnership achieved between the two university sites of Flinders Remote Clinical School Katherine and Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health, with support from the Clyde Fenton Primary school team, The Smith Family and Binjari Community. Funding for ‘innovation’ has been secured for 2014 to develop a clinical supervision model suited to the Katherine context. This will enable the pilot to move into a program for 2014 at Clyde Fenton Primary School with speech pathology students from the University of Sydney.

Community Service Learning Project (continued)

2013 Regional Community Week in Katherine Pascale Dettwiller During the week of 28th October 2013, three students from Adelaide Flinders University School of Medicine (Katrine Queddong, Marissa Zamora and Brett Goodsall) travelled to Katherine for their Regional Community Week (or RERAS - Rural Engagement Research, Advanced Studies). They enjoyed the first weekend with the StARRH group exploring Katherine Gorge muscling a canoe up-stream, and then skilling-up in advanced 4WD driving. They said it was a marvellous opportunity to discover Katherine and to socialise with other students from the NT whom they would not have met otherwise. Their five day placement went from

playing with Binjari kids, who are our Good Beginnings partners, to collecting organic samples with Miliwanga Sandy from the Banatjarl Wumin’s Grup on Jawoyn country, and discussing traditional therapies with Associate Professor Pascale Dettwiller. The teaching was held under the huge mahogany tree at the Katherine Museum and followed by a lunch at Markies’ where they indulged in his famous camel burgers with jungle drink!

The students then finalised their project (poster on adherence to medications from data collected at Wurli Wurlinjang Health service) with A/Professor Pascale Dettwiller and presented to the community on the Friday afternoon prior to leaving for Darwin. The students all said they will come back to Katherine as their “experience was fantastic and one of holistic community engagement”.

Below: Regional Community Week students in Katherine Above right: Collecting organic samples

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Katherine Remote Clinical School News

On the night of the 31st October 2013, Flinders NT Katherine site celebrated 12 Katherine student’s clinical placements with local community guests. Flinders NT Medical Program Year 3 students, Flinders Adelaide Year 2 students, University of Wollongong students, and University of Queensland students joined four University of Sydney Speech Pathology Master students who have been based at Clyde Fenton Primary School for the celebration. Associate Professor Pascale Dettwiller said, “…having all these students from various universities and disciplines under the Flinders Katherine umbrella is very promising for the future workforce development in rural and remote areas. If they can learn together and start to appreciate each other while studying, there are great hopes that the relationships they have built will incite them to come

back to non-metropolitan areas when they graduate”. Fay Miller, Katherine Mayor, launched the event and wished “them all success in their career, with the hope that they will come back to practice in rural areas”.

Katherine Celebrates Record Number of Students Pascale Dettwiller

Above: End of year celebrations with Medical students and Speech Pathology students who have all spent time at the Katherine Remote Clinical School in 2013. The group is joined by Associate Professor Pascale Dettwiller and the Mayor of Katherine, Fay Miller.

On the weekend of 26th and 27th October 2013, Flinders students and members of StARRH (Students Association for Rural and Remote Health) gathered in Katherine to undertake fun and practical activities for their Territory Tough weekend. The Association is a multidisciplinary student group and members include students from Nursing, Pharmacy, Medicine, Psychology, Sports and Exercise Science, Social Work, Public Health and Community Development. StARRH provides a voice for students who are passionate about rural and remote health; it facilitates multi-disciplinary net-working, professional development opportunities and experience in working in rural and remote areas.

StARRH aims to interact and engage with people living in rural and remote areas whilst educating them about healthy lifestyle choices and educational pathways

towards various health professions.

Students Flood Katherine Pascale Dettwiller

Below: StARRH students tackling the tough environment around Katherine as part of a two day 4wd course.

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Katherine Remote Clinical School

The end of the year is always a good opportunity to celebrate collaboration and the partnerships that have enabled us to deliver a quality teaching to all our students during the year. For the Katherine District Hospital, Dr Simon Quilty received the certificate of appreciation for the support provided to students; in 2013 the Year 3 Flinders students were placed on a full time rotation of 6 to 7 weeks at the regional hospital that has reinforced the importance of teaching and also the relationships between the two organisations. Angela Brannelly, KDH General manager, said “this model of rotation has enabled the students to understand better the culture of the place, and staff have recognised the benefit of having committed students on regular rotation; the two way teaching and learning could be implemented generating a greater satisfaction from both groups”. Dr Quilty is a member of the NTMP Curriculum Committee for Katherine showing his dedication to our ‘own grown’ medical workforce. The Smith Family has funded two important project managed by Associate Professor Pascale

Dettwiller; The Interagency Collaboration in the context of the Communities for Children program ($100,000 over two years) and the student led clinics for speech pathology students at Clyde Fenton Primary School in conjunction with Binjari Community Aboriginal Council ($20,000). These collaborations and partnerships are essential for community development. The

principle of community engagement developed outlined in the Flinders University Strategic Plan has been applied at all times leading to respectful and meaningful relationships that will last.

Celebrating Remote Clinical School Partners in the Katherine region

Below: Pascale De willer, and Sylvia Maroney and Evonne Booth from Binjari Community

Pascale De willer and Dr Simon Quilty

Pascale De willer and Sandy Cartwright, Principal at Clyde Fenton Primary School

Pascale De willer and Penny Everi , Manager of the Smith Family, Katherine

CONTACT US: P. 08 8946 7488

E. lila.loveard@flinders.edu.au W. flinders.edu.au/nt-medical-program

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Flinders NT Staff Updates

Tania Shoesmith, Administrative Officer Pre-Clinical Education, has resigned from her position at NT Medical Program’s CDU site. Tania and family have decided to relocate to Queensland.

Tania has been employed at Flinders University for 26 years!! She was based with Flinders University in the NT for just over a year. Before relocating to Darwin, Tania worked in Student Finance and Scholarships at Flinders in South Australia.

It is very sad to farewell such a dedicated, loyal and committed Flinders University employee. Good luck Tania and enjoy the Queensland beaches.

Farewell to Flinders after 26 Years Lila Loveard

Administration Officer HBME Clinical Education Narelle Campbell

Please join me in welcoming Catherine Nacey, the new HBME Administration Officer who commenced at RDH campus on Monday November 25. Catherine comes to us with a strong background in office administration, most recently with

a local Darwin-based architect. She also has small business experience. It is exciting to have Catherine commencing in time to welcome our 2014 cohort of students. Catherine’s appointment means

that our valuable temp administrator, Kymira will be finishing up with us in December. It has been fabulous having Kymmie as part of our team and we wish her all the best with her basketball and the remainder of her time in Australia.

Staff Updates Commencing Professor Tim Neild, Acting Associate Dean, Flinders NT Catherine Nacey, HBME Administration Officer, RDH Departing Professor Sarah Strasser, Inaugural Associate Dean, Flinders NT Tania Shoesmith, Administrative Officer Pre-Clinical Education Kymira Woodberry, HBME Administration Officer, RDH

SEASONS GREETINGS

WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH

YOU TO MAKE 2014 AN INSPIRING YEAR.

Right: Monica Barolits-McCabe, Sarah Strasser and Eliza Gill at Sarah’s farewell.