Training for rural general practice in north Queensland.
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Videoconferencing provides a useful tool for improving information flow, with clinical, educational and administrative uses being particularly relevant to rural and remote Australia. This paper describes the range of possible uses for computer-based videoconferencing and describes the authors' experience in delivering rural medical education in North Queensland via videoconference. Principles that ensure successful videoconferencing are outlined and are applicable to a variety of formats and uses. They include the need to keep it simple, the importance of thorough preparation, and ensuring that education drives technology, rather than the converse.
Not all rural doctors have had a lifelong ambition to enter rural practice. For some the decision comes after a positive experience even quite late in their professional development. This paper is written by a rural doctor with little experience of rural life until he was posted to a small one-doctor community under the Queensland Government's State Fellowship scheme. Seven years later ...