Department of General Practice & Rural Health

Come and work @DSMOtago ARF position open now @GPRHOtago otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

All medicines can cause side effects. Medsafe/Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (CARM) monitor the safety of medicines to protect patients. Your suspected side effect reports are crucial to support #PatientSafety Submit a report pophealth.my.site.com/carmreportnz/ #MedSafetyWeek

It's #MedSafetyWeek. Primary healthcare clinicians have a crucial role to play in medication safety. Help #PatientSafety by reporting any new or suspected side effects that your patients experience bit.ly/AR-NZ

Congratulations @AnnaAskerud who recently submitted her PhD thesis: Envisaging better care for complex multimorbidity in Aotearoa New Zealand. She was supervised by Chrys Jaye, @DoolanFiona & Eileen McKinlay @DSMOtago @otago

Congratulations to @DSMOtago student Patrick Bartosch on submitting his PhD thesis on the Moral Economy of Healthcare.

Our new research led by Garry Nixon @GPRHOtago is out now in @bmj_company Epi and Community Health doi.org/10.1136/jech-2… "Among younger age groups mortality rates, for a range of causes, are considerably higher for people living in rural compared to urban areas"

📢The call for abstracts closes on Friday, May 5th and there will be no extensions this year. Submit yours today! And join us for a conference dinner at Sea Life! ➡️aaapc.org.au/ARC/abstracts

Please help us identify the most significant research questions in primary health care in Aotearoa that need addressing to improve health equity. Eligible participants should be either NZ primary health care providers and/or primary health care academics. otago.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dp…

📢 The call for abstracts is now open!! We look forward to receiving yours and also can't wait to see you all in person this year, in Melbourne! Submit your abstract here: aaapc.org.au/ARC/abstracts #OurPrimaryCare #AAAPC23 👏👏👏

We are so stoked about seeing you all face-to-face at #OurPrimaryCare #AAAPC23 conference held as @unimelb's iconic new @MelbourneConne1 building. It's going to be great! Registrations and abstracts will open soon! Mark your calendar🗓️ and stay tuned for more!

What is it like growing older in a small rural NZ town? The concepts of latent precarity and experienced precarity are explored in this new paper by @DSMOtago researchers Chrys Jaye Judith McHugh @DoolanFiona Lincoln C Wood authors.elsevier.com/a/1gnOI2eyKFrY…

This thought-provoking paper explores the moral distress experienced by veterinarians enacting New Zealand's response to Mycoplasma bovis. Congratulations to @DoolanFiona @MarkBryanNZ and colleagues on their publication. @RAORnetwork @DSMOtago

🚨 Our webinar is on in just a few hours! Please join us and over 50+ registrants as we share tips on how to build your profile across several online and social media platforms. We're looking forward to seeing you soon! Register here: unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

@ciaralee has been busy finishing and celebrating the submission of PhD thesis in Medical Education on managing clinical uncertainty. Ka pai!

Good opportunity for early-to-mid career researchers to learn more about journal peer review and editorial processes from the experts.

Tēnā koutou! As part of a research project for @GPRHOtago I am currently recruiting ethnic Chinese with experience using mental health services for an interview. Interview in Eng/Cant/Man. Can be anywhere in Aotearoa, $30 grocery voucher for participants. Please share widely :-)

Congratulations to @ciaralee and colleagues for their recent publication which clearly outlines simple advice for research supervision

And for something completely different - this work estimates the prevalence of drawing in clinical practice amongst kiwi doctors. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35942869/ @artibiotics @DrMurton Karen Oldfield, Augustus Anderson, Allie Eathorne, Richard Beasley, John Nacey, Chrys Jaye.

This important paper defines rural Aotearoa NZ with a new geographic classification for health journal.nzma.org.nz/journal-articl… @whitehead_nz Gabrielle Davie, Brandon de Graaf, @tiekemanu David Fearnley, Michelle Smith, Ross Lawrenson, Garry Nixon

Phew: whole stack of @GPRHOtago @DSMOtago publications this month. Stay tuned... 1/

Diagnostic delay in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease was explored in this paper. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35887925/ Bahareh Khalilipour, Andrew Day, Kristin Kenrick @GastroOtago @MontaneHat

The last of the rural-themed papers is a scoping review looking at the allied health workforce in rural Aotearoa NZ, which found only 10 publications on this topic. publish.csiro.au/hc/Fulltext/HC… Sarah Walker, Ewan Kennedy, Garry Nixon @KatiBlattner