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Teaching Agricultural Health & Medicine in rural medical education programs

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Track 7
Saturday, October 24, 2015
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Riverbank 6B

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This session, suitable for Rural Medical Educators will discuss reasons why to teach agricultural health and medicine (AHM); focus on socio-economic reasons for AHM and issues related to health as identified by farmers and outlines the relationship of AHM to rural practice. You will be informed on the QRME/Griffith models, learning objectives, logistics and evaluation of AHM teaching, learning and research : - Rural and Agricultural Medicine symposium series (across 3 years of MD program); - Agricultural community longitudinal integrated clerkships in years 3 and 4 of 4yr MD); - AHM workshop for registrars; - Farm day teaching and experiences; - Agricultural Health and Medicine Research Group, Institute of Agriculture and the Environment, USQ – collaborative projects with Griffith and QRME. Presenter : Professor Scott Kitchener QRME

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