MABEL Research Forum 2015
and MABEL Data User Training Workshop

MABEL Data Users Workshop, Thursday 23 April 2015 at the Melbourne Institute

MABEL Research Forum, Friday 24 April 2015 at the Melbourne Business School

Program for MABEL Research Forum

Please see below the program.

Printable Program pdf

For more information about the forum or the program, please contact us at [email protected]

More information


NHMRC Centre for Excellence in Medical Workforce Dynamics

Medicine in Australia - Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL)

Venue: MLR2 Theatre, Melbourne Business School, 200 Leicester Street, Carlton [see here for location]

9.15 - 9.30am Coffee and Registration
9.30 - 9.45am

Introduction and CRE-MABEL update and overview Presentation pdf

Anthony Scott, The University of Melbourne

9.45 - 10.30am Session 1: What do we want from our medical workforce?
 

Chair: Judy Searle, Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand

Panel Discussion:

Wendy Southern, Commonwealth Department of Health

Brendan Murphy, Austin Health

Philip Davies, Department of Health, Queensland

Leanne Wells, Consumers Health Forum of Australia

10.30 - 11.00am Morning Tea
11.00am - 12.15pm Session 2: Medical careers and workforce participation
 

Chair: Mukesh Haikerwal, General Practitioner

Overview of MABEL Research: Guyonne Kalb, The University of Melbourne

Presentation pdf

Short Presentations:

1. Barbara Broadway, The University of Melbourne

Do financial incentives influence GPs’ decisions to work after hours?

Presentation pdf

2. Danny Hills, University of Canberra

In harms’ way. Workplace aggression in Australian clinical medical practice.

Presentation pdf

12.15 - 1.15pm Lunch
1.15 - 2.15pm Session 3: Integrating research and evaluation into health workforce policy
 

Chair: Stephen Leeder, Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia

Lessons from MABEL: John Humphreys, Monash University

Presentation pdf

Panel Discussion:

Maureen McCarty, Department of Health
Louisa Jorm, The University of New South Wales

Presentation pdf


Caroline Laurence, University of Adelaide

Presentation pdf

2.15 - 2.45pm Afternoon Tea
2.45 - 4.15pm Session 4: Rural medical workforce
 

Chair: Anthony Wall, Rural Health Workforce Australia

Overview of MABEL Research: Matthew McGrail, Monash University

Presentation pdf

Belinda O’Sullivan, Monash University
The stability of rural outreach: a national longitudinal study of medical specialists.

Presentation pdf

Panel Discussion - Key Issues:

Jenny Johnson, Rural Doctors Association of Australia
Paul Cutting, Department of Health
Lesleyanne Hawthorne, The University of Melbourne
Lucie Walters, Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine

Presentationpdf

4.15pm Close