Developing the accredited postgraduate assessment program for Fellowship of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine

Prof Janie Smith

qualifications: EdD

contribution: original concept

position: Director

Australia

Janie Dade Smith is Professor of Innovations in Medical Education at Bond University. She is the previous President of CRANAplus the peak body for all remote health. Janie was previously Director of RhED Consulting Pty Ltd. She is a health educationalist who has worked extensively in rural and remote Australia across all health disciplines and a board range of government and non government sectors. She is author of Australia's rural, remote and Indigenous health, the 3rd edition was published in 2016 by Elsevier Australia. Her particular areas of interest are: innovative education, remote health, interprofessional education, rural and remote workforce issues, curriculum development and Indigenous health.

David Prideaux

qualifications: PhD

position: Professor and Head of Medical Education

Australia

David Prideaux is Professor of Medical Education and Head of the Department of Medical Education at Flinders University in Adelaide. His major interests are in curriculum design anfd evaluation and innovation in medical education. His research focus is in decision-making models for educational change.

Christina Wolfe

qualifications: MBA

position: Director

Tim Wilkinson

qualifications: PhD

position: Associate Dean (Medical Education)

Prof Tarun Sen Gupta

qualifications: PhD

position: Head of General Practice and Rural Medicine, Director of Medical Education

Australia

Tarun Sen Gupta is Professor of Health Professional Education and Head of the Townsville Clinical School at the James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry, North Queensland, Australia. He was in rural practice in Richmond, north-west Queensland from 1987-1993, and has worked in rural medical education since 1993. He is a Rural Generalist Training Adviser for Queensland's Rural Generalist Pathway, a board member of the Rural Doctors Association of Queensland and the Rural Doctors Foundation, and Chair of the ACRRM Assessment Committee.

Prof Dawn DeWitt

qualifications: FRACP

position: Dean, Rural Clinical School

Canada

Prof Paul Worley

qualifications: PhD

position: Dean (Medicine)

Australia

Emeritus Professor Paul Worley, Executive Director of Clinical Innovation at the Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network, former Australian Rural Health Commissioner and former Dean of the School of Medicine at Flinders University, is the Editor-in-Chief of Rural and Remote Health. Paul is a practicing rural doctor and, as Editor, shapes and guides the journal, oversees the review process and supports and advises authors, taking an active interest in the progress of each article in production.

Prof Richard Hays

qualifications: PhD

position: Dean of Medicine

Australia

medical education, rural health care, workforce

Marita Cowie

qualifications: MBA

position: CEO

Australia

Rural and Remote Medicine; Medical Education; Rural Communities; Curriculum development; Junior doctors; Overseas trained doctors