PHCRED-WA
PHCRED promotes and supports a collaborative research culture between universities, primary health care practitioners, consumers, organisations and government agencies to inform, develop and improve primary health care policy, practice and service delivery.
2011 Annual PHCRED WA Research Conference
Join us at the University Club of Western Australia on Friday 21st October - Looking to the Future and be involved in this great networking event.
Keynote Speakers include:
| Professor Alistair Vickery -Medicare Locals |
| Associate Professor David Preen - Evaluating effective patterns of primary care in chronic disease management through whole-population medical record linkage |
| Dr Denise Findlay - Quality Practice Criteria |
There are four conference sessions titled: Rural Health, Cardiovascular Disease, Indigenous Health and Aged Care.
| RURAL HEALTH | CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE |
| Factors predicting incomplete surgical skin cancer excisions in a GP Specialist setting: A Midwest WA study. William Ardrey | Comparison of land and water based exercise activity on acute blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetes patients. Marco Barciela de Assis |
| Getting to know the 'grunt' language: Perceived communication barriers between international medical graduates and patients in central Wheatbelt catchments. Jessica Sommer, Caroline Bulsara | High rates of lower limb amputation in Aboriginal People in Western Australia. Deb Schoen |
| Western Australian Innovations and Improved Cataract Surgery for Rural Patients. William Ardrey | Statin prescribing in Australian and Irish general practice: a qualitative study. Brett Montgomery |
| Recruiting a rural workforce: initial impact of the Rural Clinical School of WA. Denese Playford | Cardiovascular health management in an Aboriginal Medical Service. Andrew Maiorana |
| INDIGENOUS HEALTH | AGED CARE |
| Challenges in improving cardiovascular disease outcomes for Aboriginal people: a case for primary care to step up. Sandra Thompson | Postural Care - What could it mean for Residential Aged Care? Samantha Neylon |
| Personal Experiences of Australian Aboriginal Women with Diabetes during Pregnancy. Cindy Porter | Uptake of the Advanced Health Directive in the Great Southern region of WA. Craig Sinclair |
| "Community Teachers model". Aboriginal Health. Charmaine Green | Uptake of the Advanced Health Directive amongst the Great Southern community: A Mixed-method study. Ashlee Burgess |
Registration is now open. This one day conference is of interest to primary health care researchers, project officers, general practice and allied health professionals, academics, Divisions of General Practice, policy makers, consumers, students and registrars.
REGISTER NOW!! There is ONLY 4 WEEKS TO GO!
Contact Lyn 08 9956 0200, lyn.brun@cucrh.uwa.edu.au for details.
Grand Round Education Series
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) WA is holding a number of workshops covering GP based clinical topics and involves case based small group discussions. See http://www.racgp.org.au/FacultyEventLinks/WA1112_04.pdf for more information.
APHCRI 2011 Stream Funding - Expressions of Interest
APHCRI 2011 Stream Funding - Coordination and the Vulnerable Consumer Health Care Research.
APHCRI is now calling for expressions of interest for up to six projects to provide evidence on how primary care for vulnerable consumers can be consumer centred.
Funding for individual projects up to $150,000 will cover travel and associated costs. Expressions of Interest have closed.
More information can be found on the APHCRI website.
2011 RACGP WA Faculty Award Nominations Open Now
Do you know a worthy recipient for the following WA Faculty awards:
General Practice Prize for Excellence in Population Health
This is awarded to a general practitioner who has demonstrated exceptional merit in promoting health in Western Australia. The aim of this award is to promote the role and status of general practitioners in contributing to the improvement of population health. General Practice Prize for Excellence in Population Health nomination form and criteria can be found below.
RACGP WA Budding Researcher Award
The aim of this award is to promote the role and staus of general practice research in Western Australia. GP's are to self nominate, with a College member co-signing the application. RACGP WA Budding Researcher Award nomination form and criteria can be found below.
Nominations close Friday 5 August. For further information please contact the WA faculty on 08 9489 9555 or visit http://www.racgp.org.au/wa/
Early Career Pathways in General Practice
A diverse group of primary health care professionals gathered to talk to medical students and registrars about possible career pathways in General Practice. This was the first collaborative event for PHCRED WA in 2011. See the April newsletter for more information.
2010 Annual Research Conference
Partnerships in Practice
The PHCRED conference was held on the 12th November with the largest attendance to date. It was an enjoyable day with many opportunites to network with like minded people from the Primary Health Care research community.
Major sponsor for this event is the Health Networks Branch Department of Health WA.
MIMS sponsored "The Best Presentation" Award, this was awarded to Paola Chivers.
RACGP sponsored "The Best Student Presentation" Award, this was awarded to Dr Jenny Prentice.
FELLOWSHIPS - EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST INVITED
Are you interested in a undertaking some research in 2011? Research mentoring and training is available to health care clinicians, other professionals employed in primary health care and consumers. Want to know more?This is a great opportunity to launch into research.
ResNetWA - an email network for primary health care researchers.
Receive up to date information with regular e-news to keep you informed of the latest news in primary health care research in Western Australia.Join ResNetWA Form
To join, download the application form, complete and return to: lyn.brun@cucrh.uwa.edu.au
