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Example of content of the Online Wednesday Program and online clinical case discussions

UCRH graduate workforce-ready skills
Rural specific
  • Graduates have confidence and skills in working in autonomous environment in rural and remote workplaces

  • Graduates are socially accountable

  • Graduates are able to improve healthcare equity in rural areas through system and practice change

Healthcare specific
  • Graduates are able to provide holistic patient-centred care

  • Graduates look after their own well-being (self-care)

General
  • Leadership skills

  • Innovation ability

  • The ability to work in a team

  • Ability to work in multidisciplinary settings

Learning areas during the Wednesday Program education sessions
Systems approach
  • Focus on an integrated approach between health care and other sectors

  • Establish familiarity with local and national programs and services to support health and social needs

  • Ability to connect community-based partners, patients and caregivers to local and national programs and services to support their health and social needs

  • Emphasizing an integrated knowledge of person-centred, preventative and community-based care, based on the biopsychosocial aspects of disease, systems of care and social determinants of care

Integrated care knowledge and skills
  • Skills to construct a comprehensive understanding of individual patients' complex needs and how these can be met within their health and social systems

  • In-depth understanding of other disciplines, including referral processes

  • Understanding how care is provided in rural areas

  • Knowledge of services in small rural towns

  • In-depth understanding of early intervention and prevention

  • Adaptive expertise is used by the facilitator to encourage students to proactively understand the interaction between patient and system complexity (Sockalingam et al., 2016)

  • Management of chronic conditions and improving quality of life for older people

Workforce-ready skills
  • Work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team

  • Work autonomously and self-directed

  • Generate new ideas and solutions to complex problems

Examples of topics covered
Multidisciplinary Wednesday Program
National disability insurance scheme, my aged care, national digital health strategies, role of the cancer council, trauma informed care
Friday multidisciplinary clinical case discussion
Management of back pain in the elderly, management of depression in the elderly, management of Type 1 diabetes

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