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Using cultural immersion as the platform for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in an undergraduate medical curriculum
qualifications: EdD
contribution: designed the project
position: Associate professor (medical education)
Australia
Janie Dade Smith is Professor of Innovations in Medical Education at Bond University. She is the previous President of CRANAplus the peak body for all remote health. Janie was previously Director of RhED Consulting Pty Ltd. She is a health educationalist who has worked extensively in rural and remote Australia across all health disciplines and a board range of government and non government sectors. She is author of Australia's rural, remote and Indigenous health, the 3rd edition was published in 2016 by Elsevier Australia. Her particular areas of interest are: innovative education, remote health, interprofessional education, rural and remote workforce issues, curriculum development and Indigenous health.
qualifications: MBA
contribution: literature review
position: Assistant professor (teaching and learning)
qualifications: MBBS
contribution: original concept
position: Assistant professor (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health)
qualifications: RN
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Associate professor, general practice and education Training Officer
qualifications: MBBS
contribution: original concept
position: Associate professor (behavioural sciences)
qualifications: PhD
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Associate professor (clinical ethicist)
I am a clinical ethicist specializing in bedside ethics consultation, organ donation & transplantation, and medical student education (www.AskTheEthicist.com; www.TransplantEthics.com)
qualifications: PhD
contribution: supervised data collection
position: Assistant professor (behavioural sciences)
qualifications: MBBS
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Associate professor (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health)
Australia
I am a graduate of the James Cook University School of Medicine with a passionate interest in Indigenous, Veterans and Rural Health. Former Councillor/Director of the RACGP for 6 years and Founder of the National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. Now in private practice in Bundaberg.
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