In Australia, indigenous health professionals are under-represented compared with the percentage of indigenous people in the population. Therefore it is important that non-indigenous health professionals…
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Chris Walton, CEO of Professional Pharmacists Australia (PPA), has said that rather than providing an instructive first step in a career in pharmacy, an increasing…
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The Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program (PHWP) is an evidence-based initiative developed by The Australian Psychological Society (APS). The program aims to promote psychological health and…
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Dietitians have taken to Twitter to voice their concerns over the segment “Low Carb Diet Fat or Fiction” aired on the ABC’s Catalyst on Thursday…
Update – on 12th May 2015 when the Federal Budget was handed down the government announced that the Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship (MRBS) program was…
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A Griffith University study has investigated the likely financial impact of physiotherapists referring patients directly to specialist medical practitioners. Under the current system, a physiotherapist…
According to information from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), psychologists in Australia provided more than 3.7 million MBS-subsidised mental health services to…
Read More GPs provide over 4 times more MBS subsidised mental health services than psychologists>
Here’s some information especially for you if you are considering a career in dentistry and want to know what the areas of specialization are. The…
You may know Dr Judith O’Malley-Ford from her videos, as the author of The Australian Medical Dictionary or for her work as the editor of…
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Colin Waldron, Chair of the Optometry Board of Australia, has questioned whether optometrists are viewed any differently by ophthalmologists today compared with 100 years ago.…
Heard of the #pharmacist tweet-a-thon? We hadn’t. Luckily The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) was all over it! They recently joined pharmacists from…
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Pete Evans has been a regular in the tabloid headlines over the last few months. Getting some publicity just in time for the launch of…
Pharmacists are being invited to register an expression of interest to complete the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s (PSA) nationally accredited vaccination course “APPIMM806A Manage the…
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Allied Health is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of health practitioners. Although there is no single definition of which professions are included…
Psychology students who show no respect to the confidentiality of personal information shared in the classroom and responsibility towards homework and assignments are likely to…
We asked pharmacist and PhD candidate Kenny Lee what it was like to speak at the recent TEDxPerth event….. “Each year at TEDxPerth, local and…
Are you exploring the possibility of opening up an optometry practice in the future? Then you might want to check out the Optometry Market Analysis…
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An article recently published in the Medical Journal of Australia has looked at whether a short-term placement of Melbourne-based metropolitan medical students in a rural…
Read More How a Short Rural Placement can Change Medical Students’ View about Rural Practice>
The Australian Financial Review has published an article “The Degrees of Unemployment: universities’ jobless” which includes a tool to search graduate salary and jobs data…
The Emergency department (ED) is a highly stressful environment, so it requires specialized staff who are not only good at nursing, but also possess certain…
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