We had a case of orf here not long ago too. Perhaps it's and epidemic!
Rob Hosking
Michael Christie wrote:
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funding was withdrawn a new bulletin board (?and list) has been set up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
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