Inaugural Premuster at Bairnsdale
Pictured are participants at the Premuster conference in Bairnsdale.
International visitors were guests of the Monash School of Rural Health East Gippsland last month for a Premuster conference.
The Premuster was held over two days prior to the fourth 2014 Muster at Uluru in the Northern Territory.
The 2014 Muster was attended by international and Australian participants interested in rural medical education including those from SRH. Partners in presenting the 2014 Muster were James Cook University, Federation of Rural Australian Medical Educators (FRAME), Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet) and Consortium of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (CLIC).
SRH East Gippsland director, Dr David Campbell, organised this first Premuster in Bairnsdale around clinical reasoning.
Dr Campbell together with Ian Couper from South Africa and Lucie Walters from Flinders University are now putting together a publication looking at clinical reasoning and how students develop clinical reasoning.
During the two-day Premuster, guests were taken on a boat trip of the Gippsland Lakes with dinner near the Lakes. A local paediatrician gave a talk about environmental issues surround the Lakes.
Attendees were: Denese Playford – Rural Clinical School University Western Australia, Jay Erikson – Wisconsin University United States, Lucie Walters – Flinders University South Australia, John Russell – Monash University Mildura, Sue Berry – Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Ian Couper – Witswatersaand University Johannesburg South Africa, Garry Nixon – Otago University, Oleg Kravtchenko – Chief Medical Officer Nordland County Norway, Paul Marosszeky – Maffra/CGHS, Marnie Connolly – Monash University, Peter Stevens – Heyfield General Practitioner, Jane Greacen – Monash University, Ka Chun Tse – Bairnsdale Regional health Service, Eleanor Mitchell – Monash University, Angelo D’Amore – Monash University and David Campbell – Monash University.