Adapting to a new reality: COVID-19 coronavirus and online education in the health professions

Dr Amy Seymour-Walsh

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision

position: Lecturer, Clinical Educator Development

Mr Andy Bell

qualifications: MEd

contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision

position: Lecturer, Paramedicine

Senior Advanced Care II Paramedic (Queensland Ambulance Service) Lecturer in Paramedicine (University of Southern Queensland) Clinical Placement Coordinator (University of Southern Queensland) School Co-orodinator Learning and Teaching (USQ) Former Lecturer Paramedicine (ACU) Acting Discipline Lead Paramedicine (USQ) Former HoD Waiopehu College (NZ) PhD (candidate) University of Southern Queensland

A/Prof Anthony Weber

qualifications: MHlthSci

contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision

position: Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching)

A/Prof Tony Smith

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision

position: Academic Lead (Research)

Australia

I am a radiographer/academic and Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health. I am based in Taree on the New South Wales Mid-North Coast, where I look after undergrad and postgrad students, organise continuing education for clinical colleagues and research rural health and interprofessional workforce issues. I am interested in interprofessional boundaries in rural health care delivery and their effect on service quality and efficiency. The topic of my PhD, which I completed in 2006, was the role of nurse and GP limited license x-ray operators in remote and rural NSW. It was a qualitative study using in-depth interviews of rural radiographers, rural nurses and rural GPs about their experiences and perceptions surrounding limited x-ray licensing of non-radiographers. I also have extensive cross-disciplinary teaching experience in this field. This has led me to explore issues of rural health professional practice and workforce planning. My current area of interest is the boundaries that exist betwwen health professionals in rural practice.