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Helping future speech pathologists find their feet
For UCRH Clinical Educator Sally Howard, helping speech pathology students find their feet on placement brings together two things she has enjoyed throughout her career: working with people and supporting the next generation of clinicians. Sally started out as a speech pathologist working with adults across the continuum of care
Helping future speech pathologists find their feet
For UCRH Clinical Educator Sally Howard, helping speech pathology students find their feet on placement brings together two things she has enjoyed throughout her career: working with people and supporting the next generation of clinicians. Sally started out as a speech pathologist working with adults across the continuum of care
Helping future speech pathologists find their feet
For UCRH Clinical Educator Sally Howard, helping speech pathology students find their feet on placement brings together two things she has enjoyed throughout her career: working with people and supporting
Disastrous Writing returns to Lismore
The annual Disastrous Writing Retreat is returning to UCRH in November, bringing together people from across the disaster and climate change space for two days of focused, in-person writing, connection
UCRH researchers recognised with major awards
Two UCRH researchers have received significant recognition for work that is helping shape the future of rural health research and Aboriginal health outcomes. Dr Cas Sedran-Price (pictured right) has been
Healthy country equals healthy people
This news post is part of a series for our website and quarterly newsletter where we are invite contributions from others who share our commitment to health equity. From partners,
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UCRH is leading the Northern Rivers arm of a qualitative study about community-led Self-Organising Following Disaster. The study aims to explore community-led organising before, during and after disasters. For the Northern Rivers, the work will focus on the aftermath of the 2022 floods. The study has been designed and data
A newly published journal article has found that there is although Indigenous research governance is recognised as an essential part of ethical research, activities and contributions made by Indigenous reference group members are underreported. The journal article, Trusting relationships and learning together: A rapid review of Indigenous reference groups in
Griffith University Nutrition and Dietetics students have completed their 21-week long stay placement through the UCRH under the supervision of Clinical Educators, Nicola Buster, Bronwyn Morton and Narelle Greenlees. During their placement, students undertook placement blocks in Food Service Management, Medical Nutrition Therapy, Community and Public Health Nutrition. When reflecting
Good evaluation can shape better services, stronger policy and more useful outcomes for communities. That is the focus of new Aboriginal health research co-authored by UCRH researchers Kris Vine, Jo Longman, Alison Laycock and Veronica Matthews. Published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the paper is
This week on placement Griffith University Occupational Therapy students and University of Sydney Physiotherapy students worked together in creating an interprofessional student led ‘Valentine’s Day Treasure Hunt’ at Whiddon residential aged care facility in Casino. Together the students collaborated with the Leisure and Wellbeing team at Whiddon Aged Care and
The UCRH Multidisciplinary Health Team welcomed Allied Health students across disciplines in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Medical Imaging, Nuclear Radiation, Pharmacy, Nursing and Social Work throughout January. Students arrived from the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle, University of Technology Sydney, Griffith University, Charles Sturt University
A recent scoping review involving Associate Professor Chris Williams assessed the literature on research engagement of health care providers and health care organisations. Published in BMC Health Services Research, the study analysed 152 publications. Identified strategies include fostering dual-skilled teams, providing resources, incentivizing engagement, offering leadership support, enhancing education, facilitating
In collaboration with the Clarence Health Service and University of Wollongong Clarence Valley regional Training Hub, we hosted a health careers day for 27 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander high school students and staff from Grafton High School, South Grafton High School, Clarence Valley Anglican School and McCauley Catholic College.
The University Centre for Rural Health wishes to acknowledge the vast contribution by Dr Stephen Moore as he retires from his role of Clinical Educator with Western Sydney University School of Medicine and the Lismore UCRH rural medical program. Dr Moore, a consultant physician, has been integral in medical education
The UCRH teaching awards are a way of recognising and rewarding teaching and learning excellence within the UCRH. They are an opportunity to acknowledge the considerable time and effort many clinicians devote to enhancing the teaching and learning experience of our students and provide an appropriate forum in which to
For the last 4 weeks I have been assisting in the Northern NSW COVID-19 vaccination effort. Throughout this experience I have had the amazing opportunity to assist in many roles including administration, post immunisation observation, gaining informed consent, submitting vaccination evidence, drawing up vaccines and vaccinating. I have spent days
Physiotherapy students on placement at the Lismore UCRH during 2021 are assisting in prototyping an exercise program that will be delivered in hundreds of residential aged care facilities (RACF) across 11 primary health networks (PHN), nationally. Students are testing resources designed to assist allied health professionals to implement the Sunbeam
