The Rural Health Education Foundation has targeted the 2008 General Practice Education and Training Convention as an opportunity to distribute free educational resources to Australia’s GP training providers.
Maurie O’Connor, the Foundation’s Senior Project Manager for Education, along with Foundation Promotions Manager Clair North, will head the Foundation’s presence at …
read more »In a concerted push to grow its already extensive satellite footprint, the Rural Health Education Foundation has added 31 new receiving sites to its rural satellite network in the last year: eight each in Queensland and Victoria; seven in New South Wales; five in the Northern Territory; two in …
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A repeat Rural Health Education Foundation program airing on Tuesday July 15 looks at the various challenges and opportunities for Overseas Trained Doctors working in rural and remote Australia.
Over the Seas & Into the Bush: Overseas Trained Doctors in Rural Australia, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health …
read more »A new Rural Health Education Foundation television program airing on Tuesday 29th July, It Takes a 
Community: Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect, explores the shift to a preventive focus for child abuse and neglect, emphasising protective community services which aim to support …
A new Rural Health Education Foundation television program airing on Wednesday 25th June - Eating Disorders: A Holistic Approach - examines eating disorders such as binge eating, bulimia and anorexia nervosa, and explores the latest approaches to treatment and management.
Eating Disorders: A Holistic Approach also outlines the latest research, …
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The Rural Health Education Foundation will welcome visitors to its exhibition booth at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare conference in Canberra on Tuesday June 24.
Australia’s Health 2008, a one-day conference, takes place at Canberra’s National Convention Centre on Constitution Avenue.
“We invite everyone interested in health issues …
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The Rural Health Education Foundation has produced more learning guides for selected programs, designed to augment the Foundation’s materials and increase useability of the television programs in a variety of health and medical education and training settings.
Expansion into text-based learning materials
Launching the additional learning guides, Foundation CEO Don Perlgut …
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In a first for the Rural Health Education Foundation, its new program about stroke treatment will be web-cast a week ahead of its first airing on satellite television in June.
Striking Back: Treatment and Management of Stroke will be presented as a live and interactive web-cast through the Foundation’s website …
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The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing Senator, the Hon Jan McLucas will introduce the Foundation’s April 22nd special program on smoking pregnancy, entitled Smoking and Pregnancy: Womb to Breathe.
This program explores the health impact of smoking on pregnant women, their unborn child, and young children. …
read more »A new Rural Health Education Foundation television program airing on Tuesday 27th May, Rheumatic Heart Disease: All But Forgotten, raises the awareness of health professionals to population groups within Australia at risk of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD)….
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