It is totally unacceptable that any medical practitioner or support staff should be subject to verbal threats or physical violence, especially while looking after patients. In order to reduce the risk of threats to a doctor’s personal safety it is important to do an assessment of the types of personal… Read More »Personal Safety for Doctors
On Saturday February 7 VMWS committee members Jill Tomlinson and Linny Kimly Phuong attended the Melbourne Joomla Day, an educational day that focused on the website content management system Joomla. Teaching was provided on all aspects of website management including search engine optimization, templating, security, Joomla extensions and e-commerce.
Dr Jan Coles is conducting a research project which investigates how GPs recognise child abuse in practice. The research explores how GPs respond to child abuse and the decision making process involved. The GP’s experiences of reporting to child protection services will also be documented. The aim of the study… Read More »GPs and child abuse: recognition, responses and experiences of reporting child abuse
What does it take to be the director of neurosurgery at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne? At 45 Wirginia Maixner is one the youngest heads of neurosurgery in Australia. Read about her life, family and career in The Age’s article titled “Queen of the cutting edge”.
“Doctors may be more at risk of health problems than the general population because of sedentary lifestyles and inevitable stressors associated with medical practice. Annual preventive health checks are recommended for healthy Australians, but rarely undertaken by doctors themselves. Many doctors have become more aware of the need to refrain… Read More »Doctors’ health
Women still report discrimination on gender grounds in medicine. The old “they’re letting women into medicine!” is still alive and well – female students report hearing this over and over again in spite of Victorian medical courses being 50-70% female.
The VMWS Marvellous Medical Women project documents the stories of medical women from the Victorian Medical Women’s Society who graduated from 1930-1970. The aim of the study is to understand the experience of women in medicine, their career and personal choices. The project will document the careers of medical women, their… Read More »VMWS Marvellous Medical Women Project
In 2007 10.8% of Australian doctors-in-training were undertaking part time vocational training. Despite this, part time surgical training is essentially non existent, with only one stand alone part time surgical training position and 929 surgical trainees. VMWS has submitted a proposal to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission drawing… Read More »Part Time Surgical Training
VMWS supports the White Ribbon Campaign which aims to eliminate violence against women by promoting cultural change. It aims to – Change community attitudes so that men and women have healthy relationships free of violence; – Encourage men, supported by women, to take the lead in raising public awareness about… Read More »VMWS Supports White Ribbon Day
Bullying, intimidation, physical abuse, sexual harassment and sexual assault are unacceptable behaviours. Working and learning environments must be safe from these behaviours.
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