Library resource guides: Rural: Other resources

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Courses

Rural Anaesthetic Crisis Management (RACM)
The Rural Anaesthetic Crisis Management (RACM) course focusses on improving emergency anaesthetic skills for clinicians practising in rural and remote environments.
ABCs of Anaesthesia: Boot Camp Series
The ABCs of Anaesthesia Boot Camp has grown into a series of interactive lectures covering all the important concepts, frameworks and knowledge you need to know in your first 12 months of anaesthesia.

Websites

Rural Anaesthesia Down Under (RADU)
Closed Facebook Group. Please search and request membership if you are on Facebook for access to various resources including the “RADU Dropbox” and peer discussions.

Partyline

Partyline
The magazine for healthy and sustainable rural, regional, and remote communities.

Partyline is the online magazine of the National Rural Health Alliance, the peak body working to improve health and wellbeing in rural and remote Australia.

Australian indigenous health resources

Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin
The Australian Indigenous HealthBulletin brings together the latest information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. The HealthBulletin is produced by the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet.

Reflecting the wide range of users – policy makers, health practitioners, service providers, researchers, students and the general community – the HealthBulletin aims to keep users informed of current information of relevance to those working and researching in the field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet is an innovative Internet resource that aims to inform practice and policy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health by making research and other knowledge readily accessible.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet: Cultural Safety for Health Professionals
The portal aims to support teaching health professionals to critically reflect on the concept of cultural safety and to deliver safe, accessible and responsive healthcare that is free from racism. Links are provided here to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and cultural safety resources, relating to the five capabilities of a refreshed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework.

The capabilities are:
1. Respect: Recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ ways of knowing, being and doing in the context of history, culture and diversity, and affirm and protect these factors through ongoing learning in health care practice.
2. Communication: Engage in culturally appropriate, safe and sensitive communication that facilitates trust and the building of respectful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
3. Safety and quality: Apply evidence and strengths-based best practice approaches in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health care.
4. Reflection: Examine and reflect on how one’s own culture and dominant cultural paradigms, influence perceptions of and interactions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
5. Advocacy: Recognise that the whole health system is responsible for improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Advocate for equitable outcomes and social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and actively contribute to social change.

The links to these resources have been provided by the Griffith University First Peoples Health Unit and are curated by the HealthInfoNet.

National Strategic Framework for Rural and Remote Health

National Strategic Framework for Rural and Remote Health
The Framework promotes a national approach to policy, planning, design and delivery of health services in rural and remote communities and is directed at decision and policy makers at the national, state and territory levels. It may also be used by communities and local health service providers to plan services and programs according to local needs. Overall it aims to improve health outcomes and return on investment for rural and remote Australians.

Download the Word or PDF version of the Strategic Framework here

Networks

DoctorConnect Australia DoctorConnect provides information to international medical graduates and their employers. It aims to help international medical graduates understand the steps required to work as a doctor in Australia, where they can work and restrictions on billing patients under Medicare.
The National Rural Health Alliance The National Rural Health Alliance represents 44 national organisations working to improve the health and wellbeing of 7 million people in rural and remote Australia.
Queensland’s Rural Medical Family Network The Queensland Rural Medical Family Network (QRMFN) was formed to recognise, empower and support rural medical spouses, partners and families. In doing so, we also strive to support the doctors in rural and remote practice and training throughout Queensland.
Rural and Remote Health: Links And Forums A list of networks, links and other resources from the Australian-based website about rural and remote doctors and health information.
Rural Doctors Assocation of Australia (RDAA) RDAA is the peak professional body representing the interests of rural and remote doctors and the communities they live and work in. We are committed to building and maintaining a workforce of highly skilled and motivated rural medical practitioners which requires adequate training and proper incentives, remuneration and support.
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There are RDA chapters for NSW, QLD, SA, TA, VIC and WA.