Research
Current Research
Current areas of research within the Discipline of General Practice include unemployment and health, General Practice interventions around cardiovascular risk factors, management of dementia in general practice, violence in general practice, education of medical students, environmental medicine and the use of assessments in undergraduate teaching. The Discipline is also working in collaboration with the other Departments of General Practice in NSW to build research capacity in primary care.
For more information contact parker.magin@newcastle.edu.au or susan.goode@newcastle.edu.au
Capacity Building
The Discipline of General Practice has been allocated research capacity building funding until the end of 2009. PHCRED (Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development) is a national strategy funded federally by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing aimed at encouraging and supporting research and evaluation capacity building in primary health care (including General Practice). The local PHCRED program is known as the Capacity Building in Research and Evaluation Program (CAPRE). This funding allows us to support and develop research capacity in primary health care in the Hunter, Central Coast, Mid North Coast and the North West regions of NSW.
The Discipline of General Practice has recently established a network of research general practices in the Hunter, New England and Central Coast areas to facilitate “grass roots” general practice research.
RHD Students
A number of Research Higher Degree students are supervised by staff within the Discipline of General Practice.
List of current students and their projects
For more information contact: parker.magin@newcastle.edu.au
Research Opportunities
Together with the current research projects mentioned above, there are a number of research opportunities within the Discipline.
For more information contact: parker.magin@newcastle.edu.au