Foundation features at GPET Convention in Adelaide
August 17, 2009The Rural Health Education Foundation will have a major exhibition at the 2009 General Practice Education and Training Convention, providing an opportunity to distribute key educational resources to Australia’s GP training providers.
Amanda Little, the Foundation’s Deputy Director and Director of Education, along with Foundation Communications Manager Clair North, will head the Foundation’s presence at the convention, which takes place at the Hilton Hotel in Adelaide on 2nd and 3rd September 2009.
“This is the fourth GPET convention where the Foundation has been represented, and continues our commitment to strengthening the Foundation’s relationship with the people who design and deliver vocational education and support services to GPs in rural and remote Australia,” says Don Perlgut, Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation. “We invite all training providers to visit our booth on September 2nd and 3rd to meet our key staff and sample some of our educational materials, which are ideal for GP training.”
Foundation education services
The Rural Health Education Foundation produces and distributes hundreds of distance education programs for general practitioners and other health professionals working in rural and remote Australia, using digital satellite broadcasts, DVDs, live web-casts, Internet webstreams and podcasts, as well as other broadcast television services.
About the convention
The theme of the 2009 GPET Convention is “Sustaining Passion: the art, science and nature of general practice”.
The convention program this year also covers four sub-themes:
- Sustaining registrars, supervisors, practices, educators, Regional Training Providers and the profession of general practice.
- Art: creating and sustaining a life balance. Fostering the creative side of general practice and the skills set required. Imparting the craft of general practice.
- Science: linking research to practice. The academic underpinning of the profession. Teaching evidence based medicine.
- Nature: developing and explaining the personality of general practice; the unique characteristics that set it apart from other medical disciplines.
The General Practice Education and Training Convention provides an annual national forum for those involved in vocational education and training in general practice and rural medicine. The keynote plenary session will be addressed by Professor Tim Flannery (BA, MSc, PhD), noted Australian scientist, explorer and conservationist.
More information
For more information about the Convention, go to http://www.onqconferences.com.au/pages/gpet2009.php.
Please contact the Foundation if you have any questions about the Foundation’s presence at the Convention.