You need to be "rural" to be able access the ACRRM education modules. No matter how hard I try I can't persuade them that Inner city Brunswick is not "Rural". I once saw a case of Orf in Brunswick however! Regards to our country colleagues, Michael Christie
Rob Hosking wrote: > Martin > ACRRM run a sort of listserv in the Telederm mail list. This is an > excellent clinical discussion of dermatology using photographs and > moderated by a dermatologist in Qld. One can post clinical questions in > the form of digital photos of dermatological problems as well as receive > a weekly problem sent by e-mail by the dermatologist (Jim Muir). > Technically, I suppose it is a forum, based on their RRMEO website. See > http://www.rrmeo.com/index.shtml. Personally I find this useful when I > get time to look at the problems sent by Jim. > regards > Rob Hosking > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Martin Halperin wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Hugh, >>>I wasn't meaning to sound 'critical' of this Listserv. I will try Nat-Div >>>and >>> >>> >> >>still 'hang around' here. I am actually in the early phase of planning some >>GP >>research looking at benefits of Listserv communication between doctors - >>particularly its effect on improving quality of care. So my interest is to >>explore what Listervs already exist and which research groups are interested >>in >>this area of Computing in General Practice. >> >> >> >>>I am keen for any other suggestions. Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>Hi Martin >> >>The potted history. >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] started in 1995. The >>latter is now defunct. The former is not for timid souls like myself. I >>understand it is not a fully open list. >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] started in 1999 but now also gets little traffic. >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] deals with the use of the e-smith server in >>Australian medical practices. Some linux questions are asked and >>answered there. >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] was started in late 2000 after HCN >>locked their bulletin board to some posters when they received >>unfavourable commentary. Its activity is charted on its website. It is >>low currently. >> >>There are a few application / focus specific groups that discuss their >>area of interest and occasionally other things. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are two examples. >> >>I belong to one GP research oriented list. It is low volume. >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] was sponsored by GPCG and was quite active. Since its >>funding was withdrawn a new bulletin board (?and list) has been set up >>by the RACGP. See gpcg.org.au. >> >>[email protected] was created by Peter Machell and Horst Herb at the >>urgings of Tim Churches to carry on the discussions that were previously >>held on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don't you just love namespaces.) The old >>GPCG_TALK did not confine itself to medical IT semantics and discussed a >>number of technical and medicopolitical issues. I believe this list is >>similar in this regard. Check the archives. We have some. >> >>In answer to your particular query, I don't think email lists setup for >>the purpose of discussing clinical matters have been successful. The >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists have only >>ever been of very low volume. IT literate GPs are few and far between >>and tend to talk about IT matters. Perhaps we all feel that exposing our >>clinical ignorance is generally not a good thing to do in an open forum. >> >>Your research project sounds like a difficult one. Presuming you can >>enlist enough people to the intervention group how do you measure >>whether there is an improvement in quality care. I'd suggest something >>simpler like prescribing habits of those exposed and not exposed to ads >>at the time of prescribing. >> >>HTH. >> >>David >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Gpcg_talk mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk >> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
