Annual Meetings - Brisbane 2004
The fifth annual meeting of the U21 Health Sciences group was held on Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 September, and Friday 1 October 2004 at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. More than 95 delegates attended the meeting.
Delegates, from 14 member universities, included key representatives from medicine; dentistry; nursing; physiotherapy; occupational therapy; audiology; speech science/speech pathology; sport and exercise science and human movement; and pharmacy.
The following U21 universities were represented:
- The University of Auckland
- The University of Birmingham
- The University of British Columbia
- Fudan University
- The University of Glasgow
- The University of Hong Kong
- Lund University
- McGill University
- The University of Melbourne
- The University of New South Wales
- The University of Nottingham
- The University of Queensland
- National University of Singapore
- The University of Virginia
View the participant list [PDF 11 kB]
Photo: U21 Health Sciences' Delegates outside of The University of Queensland's Customs House
The Core Meeting Programme – selected presentations, reports and notes
The teaching of basic sciences into the health professions, research, and multi-professional learning were the major themes of the core meeting programme, which also included reports on the proposed global e-health initiative, the dental benchmarking project, DLOCat as a potential learning resource catalogue, and discussion on the proposal to develop a U21 international health qualification.
View the core meeting programme [PDF 49kB]
Keynote - Teaching Basic Sciences to Health Professional Students (Susan Elliott)
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The ensuing panel and audience discussion included follow up on issues raised during the pre-meeting seminar on the teaching of anatomical sciences into the health professions, with delegates highlighting a range of views and experiences.
View the key areas of discussion [PDF 16kB]
Reports
Global e-health: Carpe Diem (Kendall Ho)
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View a synopsis of the presentation [PDF 16kB]
Learning Resource Catalogue (Peter Harris)
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View a synopsis of the presentation [PDF 14kB])
Master of International Health (Peter Harris)
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View a synopsis of the presentation [PDF 16kB]
View the health informatics resolution [PDF 15kB]
U21 Dentistry Benchmarking Project (Laurie Walsh)
View the presentation [PDF 461kB]
Research
Interdisciplinary Research in the School of Dental Science, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne (Eric Reynolds)
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Benchmarking of University Research (James Angus)
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Health Research: (Some) Global Funding Schemes (Alan Lopez)
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Stimulating Research – research leadership: creating the environment for discovery (Perry Bartlett)
Keynote - Interdisciplinary and Multiprofessional Learning in Rural Health (Dawn DeWitt)
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The discipline meetings – selected presentations, reports and notes
Two afternoons were allocated for discipline group meetings. Meeting programmes included both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary issues, as well as follow up on a range of matters including previously identified projects, proposed initiatives (global e-health), and key meeting themes (the teaching of basic sciences into the health professions).
Medicine
The medicine group focused on a range of staff and student issues, with particular emphasis on the future of academic medicine. Topics included presentations on the recruitment of medical academics and overseas-trained academic and clinical staff, hospital-university contracts, academic–clinical interface issues, and the reorganization of faculty and department structures. The segment on student issues included presentations and discussion on selection and targeted access programmes, student placement, opportunities for student exchange, and the place of virtual teaching and basic sciences in the medical curriculum.
View the medicine programme [PDF 33kB]
View selected presentations [9 presentations]
View the meeting report [PDF 20kB]
Dentistry
The dentistry group focused on initiatives arising out of the 2003 annual meeting in Glasgow, including a proposed catalogue of electronic learning resources for U21 dentistry, the benchmarking template, and an update on the trans-cultural communication project. Key topics for 2004 included curriculum issues such as problem based learning and the teaching of basic sciences, professional portability, information management and electronic records, and infection control protocols.
View the dentistry programme [PDF 51kB]
View selected presentations [7 presentations]
View the outcomes [PDF 2.80mB]
View the meeting report [PDF 35kB]
Nursing
The nursing group focused on a range of issues in relation to research and education, including benchmarking clinical teaching, learning resources, nurse prescribing, and staff and student exchange.
View the nursing programme [PDF 32kB]
View selected presentations [1 presentation]
View the meeting report [PDF 23kB]
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Student placement and building research capacity were the major themes for discussion during the meeting of the health and rehabilitation sciences group. The meeting included updates on the implementation of the benchmarking template developed for the 2003 meeting in Glasgow , and discussion on developing and sharing learning resources and strategies for improving communication within the group.
View the health and rehabilitation sciences programme [PDF 30kB]
View selected presentations [2 Presentations]
View the meeting report [PDF 43kB]
Pharmacy
Representatives from three U21 member universities met for the first time to share information and to discuss opportunities for collaboration.
Major outcome of the meeting - U21 Health Sciences global e-health initiative
The proposed global e-health initiative was discussed by each of the discipline groups and a resolution to implement a three-prong global e-health strategy was endorsed by all delegates at the U21 Health Sciences annual meeting.
View the e-health resolution [PDF 8kB]
A one-year step-wise strategy for engagement is planned, for U21 to contribute systematically to the global e-health area. The first phase of this initiative will involve recruitment of a network of university and discipline contacts to progress each element of the initiative, namely the ‘telehealth for underserved populations' pilot study, and a leadership role for U21 Health Sciences in the areas of e-health policy formulation and professional portability.
A major focus for 2004/2005 will be a pilot study to establish a programme of support by U21 universities to targeted underserved communities by ‘adopting' a hospital/health facility and utilizing existing U21 expertise, programmes and networks. Potential collaborations include the Swinfen Charitable Trust's telehealth network and The University of British Columbia's Inter-professional Rural Placement Project. A detailed outline of the pilot study will be prepared and a formative evaluation undertaken to determine best-practice processes and guidelines.
In addition, U21 Health Sciences has endorsed the e-health steering committee to seek support from the U21 Managers to conduct an e-health policy workshop/forum in 2005, together with the generation of proceedings from it, to promote the establishment of an e-health policy thread as one of the three-prongs of its global health strategy.
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