Abstract
This chapter describes the experience of university academics responding to
the challenges and exploiting the opportunities that attend the establishment
of a new, small regional medical schooL The challenges and the opportunities
arise in relation to both education and research. The educational challenges
pertain to the recruitment and re tention of suitably qualified academic and
clinical staff to deliver a medical course to a graduate-entry cohort, given the
limitations bearing on career progression and family support. The research
challenges derive from limitations in infrastructure, the availability of
honours and graduate research students, and on the collegiality that exists
when teams of researchers are engaged in related pursuits. The educational
opportunities have come from being free of any limita tions of tradition or
inertia that often prevail at older, larger instit utions. This freedom has resulted
in four significant educational innovations that have been exported back to
the parent facuhy.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Developing Sustainable Education in Regional Australia |
| Editors | Andrew Gunstone |
| Place of Publication | Clayton VIC Australia |
| Publisher | Monash University Publishing |
| Pages | 66 - 78 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781922235244 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |