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Susan L Elliott

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PubMed2006

Improving safety and quality: how can education help?

National efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care present challenges for medical education and training. Today's doctors need to be skilled communicators who know how to identify, prevent and manage adverse events and near misses, how to use evidence and information, how to work safely in a team, how to practise ethically, and how to be workplace teachers and learners. These competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) are set out in the National Patient Safety Education Framework (NPSF) of the Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care. The NPSF is designed to help medical schools, vocational colleges, health organisations and private practitioners develop curricula to enable health professionals to work safely. The NPSF describes what doctors (depending on their level of knowledge and experience) can do to demonstrate competencies in a range of quality and safety activities. Medical schools, vocational colleges, health organisations and private practitioners need to work collaboratively with one another and with other health professionals to ensure that patient safety and quality curricula are implemented and evaluated, and that valid and reliable assessments of learning outcomes are developed. Interdisciplinary and vertically integrated education and training are needed, incorporating innovative methods, to create a safer health care system.

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PubMed2005

Medical students' reported barriers to training at a Rural Clinical School.

OBJECTIVE: To understand and address students' concerns about attending one of the new Commonwealth-funded Rural Clinical Schools. DESIGN: Analysis of students' reported reasons for clinical school selection from 2003 to 2004. SETTING: The School of Medicine and the Rural Clinical School, University of Melbourne. PARTICIPANTS: Data were obtained from de-identified preference documents submitted by the medical student cohort assigned to the University of Melbourne clinical schools to begin in July, 2004. RESULTS: Thirteen categories of student concerns (social) were identified from written student preference documents. CONCLUSIONS: Evaluation of the students' concerns about social dislocation if they were assigned to a rural clinical school has provided important information about perceived barriers to rural training. These issues must be systematically addressed at the school, university and community level.

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PubMed2003

Synthesis of orthogonally protected lanthionines.

Synthetic approaches to the lantibiotics, a family of thioether-bridged antimicrobial peptides, require flexible synthetic routes to a variety of orthogonally protected derivatives of lanthionine 1. The most direct approaches to lanthionine involve the reaction of cysteine with an alanyl beta-cation equivalent. Several possibilities exist for the alanyl beta-cation equivalent, including direct activation of serine under Mitsunobu conditions: however, the low reactivity of sulfur nucleophiles in the Mitsunobu reaction has previously precluded its use in the synthesis of the lantibiotics. We report here a new approach to the synthesis of protected lanthionine, using a novel variant of the Mitsunobu reaction in which catalytic zinc tartrate is used to enhance the nucleophilicity of the thiol. In the course of these studies, we have also demonstrated that the synthesis of lanthionine from trityl-protected beta-iodoalanines is prone to rearrangement, via an aziridine, to give predominantly trityl-protected alpha-iodo-beta-alanines, and hence norlanthionines, as the major products.

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