- Title
- Learning for change in medical practice: proceedings of the annual forum, the Australian Postgraduate Federation in Medicine, Newcastle N.S.W, 12th-13th May 1987
- Creator
- Brinsmead, Maxwell; White, Saxon William
- Publisher
- Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 1987
- Description
- Education for Change was the title chosen carefully and deliberately for the 1987 Forum of the Australian Postgraduate Federation in Medicine. As Australia moves towards the end of the twentieth century, the Federation must focus its interests and concerns not only on the needs for health care as they exist today, but also the tasks which are likely to face the profession in the early decades of the twenty first century. Those who are charged with the responsibility for the education of doctors, the provision of undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education, are deeply aware that the students of today will still be in active professional practice in the third decade of the next century. Our age has witnessed a wide range of changes, more fundamental, extensive and rapid by far than during any previous period of human history. It would be a serious abrogation of responsibility on the part of the profession if it were not prepared to face even more dramatic and fateful changes in the years ahead. Changes in the need for health care and in the science and technology of health care present challenges of quite major proportions. In addition, the profession must be ready to deal with changes as they come to affect all aspects of human affairs and thus the mental and physical well-being of the population of Australia. No country is an island, and grave issues, such as continuing population expansion, persistent mass malnutrition, ecological pollution and depletion of energy resources, cannot be ignored. What then constitutes the single major task to be undertaken to ensure that the profession as a whole, as well as its individual members, can meet the challenges of change during the next forty years? The task must surely be to assist all doctors to be able to adapt themselves to changes as they occur and to combine as a profession to initiate and guide changes designed to benefit the people of this country and eslewhere. The aim of the Forum has been to contribute to the growing awareness that medical education must be directed towards assisting doctors to adapt to change and to participate in change.
- Subject
- medical education; changes; health care
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/939007
- Identifier
- uon:12720
- Language
- eng
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