Newsletter | Issue 7 | December 2017
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A few weeks ago, I had great pleasure in attending the inaugural Melbourne Medical School Research Symposium organised by Jane Gunn, David Lane and the School’s Research Committee. At this event, we celebrated the research funding successes of our staff and then heard from five Melbourne Medical School researchers about their research lives.
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Dr Petrina Barson, Honorary Fellow in the Department of General Practice, has been teaching Compassion Cultivation to MD students at the Western Clinical School since 2015, and she has always thought this is an odd question.
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The Children and Young People’s Research Group in the Department of General Practice (DGP) has welcomed news of successful projects that will consolidate existing Australian partnerships, and create new ones with Indonesia, in improving adolescent health and wellbeing.
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Dr Beth Russell, PhD Candidate at Melbourne Medical School, was awarded the prestigious Ian Maddocks Guest Lecture Award at the recent Australian Palliative Care Conference in Adelaide for her pioneering research in palliative care triage.
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This one-day interactive course aims to help practitioners working in the area of domestic, family and sexual violence to shape their ideas into research projects.
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Melbourne Medical School students were very much involved in the recent Stroke Society of Australasia annual scientific meeting held in Queenstown in New Zealand.
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The University of Melbourne researchers have presented a very new concept in Vienna in October through 51,113 patients.
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Collaborations between researchers from the Department of Medical Education (DME), MMS clinical sites, and international centres, have resulted in research examining different facets of learning and teaching in clinical placements and within the MD program.
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As part of its strong commitment to student wellbeing, on Thursday September 14th, the Melbourne Medical School supported RUOK? Day activities across its metropolitan and rural clinical school sites
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Nine clinician researchers affiliated with the Medical School’s Anaesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Unit, from six MACH partner hospitals, have been awarded more than $500,000 from a pool of $1.7 million in the latest Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) annual grant round.
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Department of Surgery Awarded $1.1 million NHMRC Partnership Grant
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Meet Frank Smolenaers who develops innovative solutions for Health with the help of end users in the Alfred's "Digital Health Design Lab".
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Clinician researchers from different career stages provided engaging and inspiring stories during a special research event on the 23rd of November 2017.
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Mobile eLearning Delivery Solutions for the cost-effective creation of professional development courses.
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The third SEXrurality Conference was held on 1 & 2 August 2017 at Grange Cleveland Winery in Lancefield, Victoria...
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University of Melbourne scientists are tackling commercial journals' excessive online submission fees, copyright theft and deteriorating peer review with a new inexpensive online journal called “youcite.com”.
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On September 9th the Royal Melbourne Hospital Simulation Centre in collaboration with The University of Melbourne RMH Clinical School ran a unique pilot program called Med-e-Sim.
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A design studio, Studio 07, recently completed at the Melbourne School of Design interrogated the contemporary experience of dying and challenged societal responses to palliative care through sixteen speculative architectural projects.
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Heartiest congratulations to Dr Emily Wright from the Department of Medicine and Radiology...
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Department of General Practice expanding the horizons of community health in China.
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