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The Disaster & Emergency Medicine Project

The Internet Home page of the Disaster and Emergency Medicine Project, currently associated with the Sherbrooke and Pakenham Division of General Practice.

This Project seeks to reintroduce the General Medical Practitioner (GP) to Disaster Medicine so that they will again become pro-active participants in, rather than respondents to a Disaster.

The Project has been developed to increase the GPs' PREPAREDNESS to respond to a Disaster. A model has been developed for response to a Disaster by GPs, which will deliver a trained Field Medical Team to stabilise and commence treatment at the site of a Disaster within 30 minutes. It will also facilitate local treatment of the "walking wounded" in GP surgeries, freeing the local hospital Accident and Emergency Departments to deal with the seriously wounded.

The Sickness Prevention Program

This slide-based presentation describes a simple, opportunistic, preventative health program for general practice, as developed by the partners of Northern Suburbs Medical Service of Launceston in 1995. Results of a retrospective survey are included.

Culture Training Manual for Medical Workers in Aboriginal Communities

This course was written 22 years ago, but remains a classic which has helped many mono-cultural white health professionals have a less destructive effect in their first months of working with remote aboriginal people. It is believed that any cross-cultural sensitisation is going to be of value generally, and even though the authors caution against applying the lessons learned in this course too literally in other cultural settings, this course will help doctors and nurses be more human in any cross-cultural setting, whether with urban Aboriginal people or New Australians for whom english is a foreign language.

This document was converted to Hypertext for the WEB by Dr Hugh Nelson