After only five-and-a-half months, our Local Health Networks (LHNs) in New South Wales are being rebranded again*. It seems that the new NSW government has decided to make its mark on the health service by fiddling with semantics. The Health Services Amendment (Local Health Districts and Boards) Act 2011 was proclaimed on 16 May and [...]
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A tale of four tutors
31May08Four tutors at two Group of Eight universities in Sydney in the past two weeks: an allegory on some of the qualities of good teachers… Tutor A teaches medicine. Although qualified in a clinical health science, she had little understanding of the subject material nor demonstrated any convincing attempt to do so. She did not [...]
Dysphasie en français
24Mar08The hospital I work at has an arrangement with the New Caledonian private health fund Caisse de Compensation des Prestations Familiales des Accident du Travail et de Prévoyance Familiales des Travailleurs de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dépendances (CAFAT), which means that we regularly have French-speaking patients under our care – many of whom have little command [...]
NAPSA Congress Sydney 2008
30Jan08I was asked to take the official photo for the National Australian Pharmacy Students’ Association (NAPSA) Congress 2008, this year hosted by the Sydney University Pharmacy Association (SUPA) – both organisations with which I have had a fair bit of involvement over the years. NAPSA Congress Sydney 2008 official congress photo (click on image for [...]
Pregnancy category mnemonic
05Oct07It seems that most of us in the Sydney Medical School have become suckers for mnemonics… Recently, after the Problem 4.05 theme session on drugs in pregnancy, I came up with a mnemonic to help people remember the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC) pregnancy categories used for medications in Australia. Category A = A-OK – [...]
