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Dr Emma Anderson is a research fellow with JCU-GP Training and the College of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University.

Emma was awarded her PhD in 2020 from James Cook University. Her research focused on the social construction of rural ageing in north Queensland with an emphasis on planning for/consideration of future health care needs for which she recieved the Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence. Emma currently lectures in the social context of ageing in MBBS1.

Prior this she has worked in Clinical Governance, Research Governance and Research Management both in Australia and the UK.

 

 

Teaching
  • HS5102: Qualitative Research Methods for Health Professionals (Level 5; TSV)
  • MD1020: Introduction to Integrated Medical Studies Part 2 of 2 (Level 1; TSV)
  • MD2012: Integrated Human System Pathophysiology Part 2 of 2 (Level 2; TSV)
  • MD3011: Introduction to Clinical Healthcare Part 1 of 2 (Level 3; TSV)
  • MD3012: Introduction to Clinical Healthcare Part 2 of 2 (Level 3; TSV)
  • MD6010: Advanced Clinical Medicine Part 1 of 3 (Level 6; TSV)
  • MD6020: Advanced Clinical Medicine Part 2 of 3 (Level 6; TSV)
  • MD6030: Advanced Clinical Medicine Part 3 of 3 (Level 6; TSV)
  • RM8301: Research Planning in Tropical Health and Medicine (Level 8; CNS & TSV)
  • RM8302: Research Project in Tropical Health and Medicine (Level 8; CNS & TSV)
Research Disciplines
Socio-Economic Objectives
Publications

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Current Funding

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

University of Queensland - Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine

Growing a female rural generalist workforce.

Indicative Funding
$149,023 over 1 year
Summary
This project will address ACRRM?s commitment to growing a future generalists? workforce, that must remain inclusive of the increasing proportion of medical graduates who are female. It will do this by identifying barriers and enablers to train and retain rural generalist women for access to high quality healthcare distributed communities. There are a range of building blocks which constitute training and employment conditions; being part of structured training like the QRGP or not, working in a fully salaried position or not and all the levels of nuance that build positive training and workplace culture for women. This project will build on existing research partnerships with JCU GP training, James Cook University and the University of Queensland drawing on existing experience and relationships formed which will in turn build research capacity and keep existing momentum.
Investigators
Lawrie McArthur, Louise Young, Matthew McGrail, Belinda O'Sullivan and Emma Anderson in collaboration with Aaron Hollins and Tiarna Gurney (College of Medicine & Dentistry, The University of Queensland and GP Supervisors Australia)
Keywords
Medical Education; Workforce; Female

University of Queensland - Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine

Exploration of cultural safety training and culturally safe practices by GP registrars when consulting with Indigenous patients.

Indicative Funding
$142,223 over 1 year
Summary
Developing a culturally safe workforce has been a long-held and enacted priority of JCU and JCU GP training to improve the health of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. JCU GP training program is committed to the national priority of closing the gap between the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians. As such, JCU GP training deeply embeds the ACRRM Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander core curriculum across all elements of training and workplace learning. This project aims to explore the impact of the JCU GP syllabus on the development of cultural safety. This includes examining registrars ongoing critical reflection of knowledge, skills, attitudes, practicing behaviours and power differentials in delivering safe, accessible, and responsive healthcare free of racism. Outcomes of the study will inform syllabus review and development, and further strengthening of current, positively contributing elements. Furthermore, this project will contribute to a larger project on ?How can cultural safety, as determined by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, be assessed amongst GP trainees??
Investigators
Lawrie McArthur, Kay Brumpton and Emma Anderson in collaboration with Rebecca Evans and Tarun Sen Gupta (College of Medicine & Dentistry)
Keywords
Medical Education; Workforce; Female

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners - Educational Research Grant

Registrar onboarding in general practice: exploring the views and experiences of GP registrars, GP Supervisors and practice managers.

Indicative Funding
$13,918 over 1 year
Summary
The RACGP Standards for general practice training (3rd Edition) provide the requirements expected of general practice training posts, GP Supervisors, and training providers. Standard 2.2 includes that ?the registrar has a structured induction to the practice that includes information about systems, resources, support and context,? and that the supervision team or supervisor has a documented orientation plan for registrars.1 These Standards also require that the registrar is adequately prepared to participate fully in the operations and scope of practice in the training post, and that orientating registrars to practice placements is defined as a responsibility of supervisors.1 The Medical Board of Australia?s 2020 Medical Training Survey Queensland report found only two-thirds (67%) of Queensland doctors-in-training received a formal orientation in their current workplace, and whilst three quarters of the respondents reported a good /excellent quality of their orientation, approximately one in five (22%) rated the quality of their orientation as average and 3% the quality as poor or terrible.2 This was in keeping with national figures.
Investigators
Lawrie McArthur, Emma Anderson and Paula Heggarty (College of Medicine & Dentistry)
Keywords
Medical Education; General Practitioners; Primary Health Care; Rural and remote health

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners - Educational Research Grant

Becoming a general practitioner/rural generalist supervisor: registrars? and new fellows? perceptions of the incentives, enablers and barriers.

Indicative Funding
$13,918 over 1 year
Summary
The apprenticeship model of learning, which involves a GP supervisor mentoring and teaching registrars whilst ensuring patient and registrar safety, is the foundation of General Practice training in Australia. The need for GP supervisors is increasing due to an expansion of medical graduates and general practice training positions, the trend in medical education towards workplace-based learning, and targeted Australian Government policies aiming to grow and better distribute the general practice workforce. Moreover, a large proportion of existing experienced GP supervisors are approaching retirement age. An adequate supply of GP Supervisors is fundamental to recruiting and retaining GPs in a practice (particularly in smaller and remote communities) and is a critical component of a high-quality primary health care workforce. Recruitment and retention of GP supervisors is a challenge experienced by all Regional Training Organisations (RTOs), especially in rural and remote areas. RTOs currently adopt a range of strategies to support the recruitment and retention of GP Supervisors (refer also to environmental scan) however it is unknown whether these strategies or other strategies are seen as incentives or enablers to the group of GPs who will become future supervisors.
Investigators
Lawrie McArthur, Emma Anderson and Paula Heggarty (College of Medicine & Dentistry)
Keywords
Medical Education; General Practitioners

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners - Educational Research Grant

Exploring GP medical educator and trainee perceptions of benefits, challenges and enablers to on-line and face to face teaching and learning in vocational GP training

Indicative Funding
$19,500 over 2 years (administered by General Practice Training Queensland)
Summary
With the COVID pandemic, the choice of face-to-face (FTF) teaching has been severely restricted, and previous reluctance to use alternative online (OL) modalities, is no longer an option. The teaching and learning processes used in our GP training programs have had to change to adapt. This necessity-driven change will of course alter the teaching and learning experiences of trainers and trainees resulting in both positive and negatives experiences for those involved. Utilising focus groups and in-depth interviews, our aim is to explore and understand the experiences of Medical Educators (MEs) and General Practice (GP) trainees, with OL and FTF teaching and learning in the changing GP vocational training environment to identify and understand the benefits, challenges and enablers to both the delivery of, and learning via FTF and OL teaching. Findings will support the development of effective and appropriate blended educational modalities by Regional Training Organisations (RTOs).
Investigators
Peta-Ann Teague, Lawrie McArthur and Emma Anderson (College of Medicine & Dentistry)
Keywords
Medical education; General practitioners

Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation - Research Grant

Ageing in place in rural Australia - An Embedded Collective Case Study

Indicative Funding
$3,425 over 1 year
Summary
This study aims to explore the perceptions of rural Australians and members of their social networks with regards to their expectations and strategies for preparing for healthy ageing in rural Australia. Previous studies on this topic in rural Canada have shown the importance of community feedback and the need for alignment with Government policies Herron and Skinner 2013). Relationships between family, friends and neighbours will be explored in this study as the importance of these informal networks in healthy ageing and their protective health effect are well documented. These relationships are the building blocks of the government's expectations of informal care, which it has used to inform its new policy "healthy life better ageing agreement" (currently informal care by elders is calculated to equivalent to 8 billion dollars) (ARC Centre of Excellence in population ageing research).
Investigators
Emma Anderson and Robin Ray (College of Medicine & Dentistry)
Keywords
Ageing; Australia; Rural; Social Support

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