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Federation of Rural Australian Medical Educators

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FRAME meeting at Grampians Clinical School, Ballarat 3-4 May 2012: * Information (pdf) * Registration form (docx) * Program (pdf)

Background

FRAME was conceived at a meeting of rural medical academics from Australian medical schools held during the 7th National Undergraduate Rural Health Conference in August 2003 at Pinjarra, Western Australia. It this meeting it was recognised that there were many common areas of interest and importance for academics working in the Rural Clinical School (RCS) and Rural Undergraduate Support and Coordination (RUSC) programs that were not able to be met in a focused way by other current national organisations.

Subsequently, three additional universities with faculties of medicine but without full Rural Clinical School status or recognition for funding (the University of Newcastle, the Australian National University and James Cook University) but with targeted rural medical student programs were admitted as members of FRAME.

AIMS of FRAME (THE FRAIMS)

To promote rural medical education as an essential and successful component of Australia’s rural medical workforce, higher education and regional development strategies.

To provide an efficient and transparent vehicle for influencing national policy that effects the goals and function of the Rural Clinical Schools (RCS) and Rural Undergraduate Support and Coordination (RUSC) programs throughout Australia.

To facilitate the successful development and maintenance of the RCS and RUSC programs in all medical schools through collaboration, discussion and sharing of ideas.

To work collaboratively with other relevant national organisations, in particular, the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), the Australian Rural Health Education Network (ARHEN), and the Committee of Deans of Australian Medical Schools (CDAMS).

Pinjarra: Site of 7th NURHC

Participating Schools, with contact details

Email the FRAME chairperson (currently Professor Judi Walker)

University	Director	Contact details	Web site and Locations
Adelaide	Professor Jonathan Newbury Professor of Rural Health jonathan.newbury@unisa.edu.au	Spencer Gulf Rural Health School PO Box 3200 PORT LINCOLN SA 5606 Ph: 08 8647 8108	http://sgrhs.unisa.edu.au/ Whyalla, Port Augusta, Port Pirie, Port Lincoln, Minlaton, Kadina, Clare and surrounding regions
ANU	Assoc Professor Amanda Barnard amanda.barnard@anu.edu.au	Rural Clinical School ANU Medical School Frank Fenner Building 42 The Australian National University CANBERRA ACT 0200 Ph: 02 6125 7657	http://medicalschool.anu.edu.au/sgprih/ Cooma, Goulburn, Bega, Young, Batemans Bay and surrounding regions.
Deakin	Professor Alister Ward Acting Head, School of Medicine hos-medicine@deakin.edu.au	Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Deakin University Pigdons Rd GEELONG VIC 3217 Ph: 03 5227 2948	Warnambool, Ballarat, Camperdown, Ararat, Colac, Horsham, Hamilton, Stawell and Daylesford
Flinders	Professor Jennene Greenhill Director, Flinders University Rural Clinical School jennene.greenhill@flinders.edu.au	PO Box 852 RENMARK SA 5341 Ph: 08 8204 4618	http://furcs.flinders.edu.au Riverland: Renmark, Berri, Loxton, Barmera and Waikerie. Greater Green Triangle: Mount Gambier, Millicent, Hamilton, Warnambool. Hills Mallee Fleurieu: Victor Harbor, Goolwa, Strathalbyn, Mannum, Murray Bridge, Kingscote. Barossa Valley: Nuriootpa, Tanunda, Angaston, Kapunda, Clare
Flinders - Northern Territory	Professor Sarah Strasser Associate Dean, Flinders NT sarah.strasser@flinders.edu.au	NT Rural Clinical School PO Box 41326 Casuarina NT 0811 Ph: 08 89228043 Mob 0439824193	http://www.flinders.edu.au/medicine/sites/nt-clinical-school/nt-rural-clinical-school/ Alice Springs, Katherine, Gove/Nhulunbuy and surrounding regions
James Cook	Professor Richard Murray Dean, School of Medicine Richard.murray@jcu.edu.au	James Cook University TOWNSVILLE QLD 4811 Ph: 07 4781 6232	http://www.jcu.edu.au/smd/ Mackay, Cairns, Atherton, Mt Isa, Thursday Island and surrounding regions
Melbourne	Ms Georgia Von Guttner School Manager georgiav@unimelb.edu.au	University of Melbourne PO Box 6500 SHEPPARTON VIC 3632. Ph: 03 5823 4502	http://www.ruralhealth.unimelb.edu.au/undergraduate study/rural clinical school/ Shepparton, Wangaratta, Echuca, Ballarat and surrounding regions.
Monash	Professor Judith Walker Head of School, Monash University School of Rural Health judi.walker@monash.edu	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences Building 64, Clayton Campus Monash University VIC 3800. Ph: 03 9905 4301	http://www.med.monash.edu.au/mrh Traralgon, Moe, Sale, Bairnsdale, Mildura, Bendigo and surrounding regions.
Newcastle	Associate Professor Steven Doherty Director, Rural Clinical School steven.doherty@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au	Locked Mail Bag 9783 NEMSC Tamworth NSW 2348 Ph: 02 6767 8462	http://www.newcastle.edu.au/faculty-old/health/initiatives/rhi/ Tamworth, Armidale, Moree, Taree and surrounding regions.
NSW	Dr Lesley Forster Director, UNSW Rural Clinical School l.forster@unsw.edu.au	UNSW Rural Clinical School (Head Office) PO Box 5695 WAGGA WAGGA NSW 2650 Ph: 02 69335111	http://sorh.med.unsw.edu.au/ Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Kempsey, Wagga Wagga, Albury, Griffith, Leeton and surrounding regions.
Notre Dame - Fremantle	See University of Western Australia
Notre Dame - Sydney	Dr Joe McGirr Associate Dean, Rural joe.mcgirr@nd.edu.au	School of Medicine (Sydney) University of Notre Dame Australia PO Box 944 BROADWAY NSW 2007 Ph 02 8204 4109 Mobile:0421 963 193	Wagga Wagga, Ballarat and Lithgow
Queensland	Professor Geoff Nicholson Head geoff.nicholson@uq.edu.au	University of Queensland Rural Clinical School Locked Bag 9009 Toowoomba DC QLD 4350 Ph: 07 4616 6886	http://www2.som.uq.edu.au/som/ourschool/clinicalschools/ruralclinicalSchool/Pages/default.aspx Rockhampton, Toowoomba, Hervey Bay, Bundaberg and surrounding regions.
Sydney	Associate Professor Tony Brown Associate Dean and Head of School tobrown@med.usyd.edu.au	School of Rural Health PO Box 1043 DUBBO NSW 2830. Ph: 02 6885 7977	http://www.dubbo.med.usyd.edu.au Dubbo, Orange, Bathurst, Broken Hill and surrounding regions.
Tasmania	Professor Tim Skinner Director, Rural Clinical School Email: timothy.skinner@utas.edu.au	Private Bag 3513 Hospitals' Campus Brickport Road BURNIE TAS 7320 Phone: 03 6430 4561 Fax: 03 6431 5670	http://www.rcs.utas.edu.au/ Burnie and the North West region.
Western Australia	Professor Geoff Riley Head of School Geoff.Riley@uwa.edu.au (RCS is based in Kalgoorlie but Geoff lives in Albany, which is an RCS training site)	Rural Clinical School of Western Australia 48 Frederick Street ALBANY WA 6330 Ph: 08 9021 5366	http://rcs.uwa.edu.au Kalgoorlie, Esperance, Geraldton, Port Hedland, Broome, Albany, Karratha, Derby, Bunbury, Narrogin, Kununurra and surrounding regions.
Western Sydney	Professor Annemarie Hennessy Acting Dean School of Medicine med-dean@uws.edu.au (RCS run from Penrith and probably always will be. At the moment the Dean plays the main role).	University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 PENRITH NSW 2751 Ph: 02 9852 4634	http://www.uws.edu.au/medicine/som/courses/about_the_mbbs_program/rural_clinical_schools/ Lismore and Bathurst
Wollongong	Dr David Garne is now Deputy Academic Leader, Community Based Health Education Ph: (02) 4221 5139 dgarne@uow.edu.au Professor Nicky Hudson Professor of Community Based Health Education nickyh@uow.edu.au Ph: (02) 4221 4836 Mobile: 0400 093 066	Graduate School of Medicine Building 28 University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Ph: (02) 4221 5139	http://www.uow.edu.au/gsm/index.html Nowra, Lismore, Leeton, Dubbo, Broken Hill, Bowral and surrounding regions.

Links

Dept of Health and Ageing: Rural Clinical Schools
http://www.health.gov.au/clinicalschools

Australian Rural Health Education Network (ARHEN)
http://www.arhen.org.au/

Rural and Remote Health Journal
http://www.rrh.org.au

RUSC: Rural Undergraduate Support and Coordination

The Rural Undergraduate Steering Committee (RUSC) Program was developed as part of the Rural Incentives Program as a strategic long term initiative to increase the number of medical graduates adopting a career in rural and remote practice. The Program was, and continues to be, based on the premise that selection of students for medical school from rural locations, increased exposure to rural medicine during the undergraduate course and enhanced support for students and rural educators would lead to more doctors adopting a career in rural medicine.

For more details see RUSC Program Guidelines 2002-05 (9 pages PDF)

Documents

Documents to be shared with participants are listed below.

FRAME meeting at Grampians Clinical School, Ballarat 3-4 May 2012: * Information (pdf) * Registration form (docx) * Program (pdf)
Presentations from FRAME Canberra Meeting (10-11 October 2011): National Rural Health Student Network (pdf). - FRAME Farewell (pdf) - HWA Presentation (pdf) - National RCS Study (pdf)
Reports from FRAME Canberra Meeting (10-11 October 2011): Summary report (pdf). - Detailed report (pdf)
FRAME meeting Canberra 10-11 October 2011: Agenda/program Clinical Academic Locum proposal Learning & Teaching Symposium proposal Rural Clinical Academic Discussion Paper Potential for an Academy Workshop Registration
Notes from the Dubbo Administrators' meeting (pdf, 3 pages)
Summary of Dubbo FRAME meeting (pdf, 3 pages).
Detailed notes from Dubbo FRAME meeting (pdf, 9 pages)
David Hallinan's presentation (pdf, 31 pages)
Dubbo documents: Session 3 ARHENS Strategic Plan (pdf), Session 4 Clinical Academic Locum Scheme (pdf), Caucus - The Melbourne Declaration (pdf),
Caucus - Cebu Strategies (PowerPoint), Caucus - Academic Clinical Practice (pdf)
Final Agenda for FRAME meeting Dubbo 5-6 May 2011 (pdf, 3 pages)
FRAME meeting at Dubbo 5-6 May 2011 Registration (PDF, 4 pages)
FRAME meeting Victor Harbor 11-12 May 2010 Draft Agenda and information (PDF, 3 pages)
FRAME meeting Canberra 3-4 Nov 09 Agenda and Registration (Word doc, 3 pages)
Workshop Program - FRAME Meeting 16-17 May 2009 (PDF, 2 pages)
Frame Meeting Program Canberrra 27-28 October 2008 Program, venues, accommodation, transport, registration form (2 page, PDF)
Agenda Frame Business meeting Canberrra 27-28 October 2008 (1 page PDF)
Program for Innovations in Rural Medical Education Forum 2-5pm, Tues 4 March 2008, Bendigo (6 pages, PDF)
Agenda for Bendigo FRAME meeting (1 page PDF)
Bendigo FRAME meeting. Tuesday 4 March 08. Travel info, accommodation options, map. (4 pages, PDF)
Australian Rotary Fund Scholarships for Rural Clinical School students - Application form - 2 Oct 2007 (5 pages, MS Word)
Australian Rotary Fund Scholarships for Rural Clinical School students - Posters - 2 Oct 2007 (2 pages, PDF)
Position description for Director of Flinders University Rural Clinical School - 22 August 2007 (5 pages, PDF)
Registration form. RCSWA Annual Scientific Meeting. 31 Aug - 2 Sept 2007. (1 page, PDF)
Registration form. FRAME / RCSWA Medical Coordinators & Operational Managers Meeting. 29-30 August 2007 (1 page, PDF)
Letter to all FRAME members from Monash School of Rural Health. May 2007 (1 page, PDF)
Call for abstracts. RCS of WA - 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting. 31 Aug - 2 Sept 2007 (1 page, PDF)
Final Agenda for FRAME meeting in Albury, 6 March 2007 (3 page, PDF)
AMC accreditation of ACRRM announcement (2 pages, PDF)
Launch of UDRH/RCS 'Opportunities...' publication on 28 Nov 06 (2 pages, PDF)
Application form for Rotary Scholarships for RCS students 18 October 2006 (6 pages, Word document)
ACRRM Forum - final program 10 October 2006 (7 pages, PDF)
ACRRM Education and Training stream 10 October 2006 (2 pages, PDF)
Rotary scholarships for RCS students 28 September 2006 (2 pages, PDF)
ACRRM Selection Consultancy 28 September 2006 (3 pages, PDF)
Minutes (draft) of FRAME meeting in Rockhampton (7 pages, Word doc)
Link toRural and Remote Health article: "Development of a common national questionnaire to evaluate student perceptions about the Australian Rural Clinical Schools Program." (12 pages, PDF)
Rockhampton - presentation by Prof John Humphreys June 2006 (31 pages, PDF)
Rockhampton meeting agenda 9 June 2006 (1 page, PDF)
Guidelines for using the FRAME email list 16 May 2006 (1 page, PDF)
New RCS reporting template 10 April 2006 (4 pages, PDF)
Minutes of FRAME meeting 12 October 2005 (7 pages PDF)
Draft agenda for Adelaide meeting October 2005 (1 page PDF)
RUSC Parameters and Draft Reporting Framework October 2005 (3 pages PDF)
Heads of Rural Clinical Schools meeting June 2005 (7 pages PDF)
Reporting framework - revised proposal (August 2005, 6 pages PDF)
Submission re increased places rurally in PGYs 1 and 2 (August 2005, 4 pages PDF)
Heads of Rural Clinical Schools meeting March 2005 (4 pages PDF)
FRAME Reference Group minutes December 2004 (5 pages PDF)
FRAME Reference Group minutes June 2004 (5 pages PDF)
Draft constitution 5 (12 July 2004: 2 page PDF)
PIP Teaching Payment (5 pages PDF)
Medical Schools Outcomes Database proposal (24 page pdf)

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Last updated: 27 March, 2012