Mob working for Mob - challenges, opportunities, success stories
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Meeting Room 3
| Thursday, October 24, 2024 |
| 1:35 PM - 3:15 PM |
| Meeting Room 3 |
Details
Stream: BUILD UP CULTURAL COMPETENCE: Strengthening Rural Healthcare through Inclusive Practices
Speaker
Dr Regina Waterhouse
Senior Medical Officer
Joyce Palmer Health Service
Mob working for Mob - challenges, opportunities, success stories
Abstract Overview
The session will consider the successes and the lessons learned of a team of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors working together and applying the rural generalist approach to provide services to an especially high needs First Nations community.
The presenters will explore the experience of a team of three ACRRM registrars who are proudly First Nations, working at the Joyce Palmer Centre at Palm Island. The team provide a wide range of services to the island's mostly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.
The workshop will look at the Palm Island experience and consider its lessons and applications for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors working in other contexts serving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
The presenters will explore the experience of a team of three ACRRM registrars who are proudly First Nations, working at the Joyce Palmer Centre at Palm Island. The team provide a wide range of services to the island's mostly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.
The workshop will look at the Palm Island experience and consider its lessons and applications for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors working in other contexts serving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
Biography
Dr Waterhouse is Chair of ACRRM Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Members Group and a proud descendent from the Thupmul (stingray) clan of Badu Island and Thabu (snake) clan of Saibai Island. In 2022, she was awarded RDAA-ACRRM Rural Registrar of the year at RMA Conference. Dr Waterhouse is part of the medical team at the Joyce Palmer Medical Centre on Palm Island in north Queensland. She has served three years as an ACRRM College Councillor
Dr Patricia Murphy
Smo
Joyce Palmer Health Service
Co-presenter
Biography
Trish Murphy is an Arrente-Kujani woman from the central desert regions of Australia and is the first in her family to complete secondary school and to go further and obtain a degree in Medicine. Prior to starting Medicine, she was the personal full-time carer of her mother Jacqui, and so has seen both sides of the health fence. She is the first Aboriginal Medical Student at James Cook University to obtain Honours which she obtained in 2016. Trish has interests in Sexual Health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, although, according to Trish, she hasn't done anything yet of great value to the profession but maybe one day. Personally, Trish likes to play video games and take long walks with her 2 fur babies; although sometimes, time, distance and situations don't make that always easy to do.
