Doctors from Wagga Wagga have won first prize at the Australia-New Zealand Medicine Research awards. Dr Lachlan Weir, Dr George Mallat and Associate Professor Joseph Suttie were grateful for all the local support. Research co-ordinator Simon Paton said, “We have seen an absolute explosion...

Matthew J Lennon, Belinda G. O’Sullivan, Matthew R. McGrail, Deborah J. Russell, John Preddy Objectives Junior medical officers (JMOs), graduates in their first three years of work, are an important part of the health care team. Attracting and retaining these doctors to rural areas...

Matthew J Lennon, Gabriel Perrottet, Joseph J Suttie Abstract Regular drug testing is a fact of life for many workers in the resource sector. Their employers and the public don’t want drug affected individuals operating machinery. Currently there is legislation to enforce a trial...

Dr Christopher Wilson, Emily Neville, A/Prof Catherine Harding Rationale General practitioner (GP) stress, burnout and retention in rural and remote areas remain critical issues to be addressed in relation to workforce distribution. Despite efforts, current strategies are failing to improve the situation. In order...

Emily Heffernan Abstract The ethics of medical research is a constantly evolving field that has developed in response to failings of morality and breaches of human rights that have occurred in studies of human-based medical research. Indeed, some of the main ethical codes governing...

Shruti Krishnan, Sarah Ritchie, Sarah Myers, Julia Fattore Introduction Antibiotic resistance is a growing phenomenon in Australia where traditionally, there was unrestrained use of broad spectrum antibiotics across the fields of both human and veterinary medicine. Antimicrobial stewardship was subsequently developed to promote appropriate...

Denbigh Burrows (UNSW M.D. Year VI), Timothy Bemand (UNSW M.D. Year VI) Abstract Polypharmacy in the elderly is a common occurrence which can have catastrophic effects. With the rapidly growing amounts of prescription medication which are available, the last ten years has seen a...

Emily Neville, Dr Theresa Pitts Case Report We report the case of infantile eosinophilic folliculitis, which has been found to be an under-reported and under researched condition. A two month old male (corrected gestational age of one week) was referred to our regional hospital...

Emily Neville Abstract Australians who live in rural and remote areas have a lower life expectancy, higher rates of disease and injury, and poorer access to health services than people living in Major cities. However, per 100,000 people there are on average only 264...

Emily Neville Abstract Twenty-nine percent of the Australian population live in regional, rural and remote areas and of this 30.1% are female (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2016, 2017). Australian rural women are not a homogenous group and they all have different needs...