Advanced medical communications: support for international residents

A peer support program for international medical graduates.

International medical graduates (IMGs) form a significant part of the Australian general practice workforce. Many experience social and professional problems and perform poorly inThe Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Fellowship Examination. This article reports on a pilot program in Mackay, north Queensland that addressed some of these issues.

Educational support for specialist international medical graduates in anaesthesia

Educational support for specialist international medical graduates in anaesthesia.

OBJECTIVE To measure specialist international medical graduates' (SIMGs) level of learning through participation in guided tutorials, face-to-face or through videoconferencing (VC), and the effect of tutorial attendance and quality of participation on success in specialist college examinations. DESIGN AND SETTING Tutorials were conducted at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital between 19 S...

Computing support for advanced medical data analysis and imaging

We discuss computing issues for data analysis and image reconstruction of PET-TOF medical scanner or other medical scanning devices producing large volumes of data. Service architecture based on the grid and cloud concepts for distributed processing is proposed and critically discussed.

An Advanced Decision Support System for Medical Diagnosis

This paper presents a clinical diagnosis support system which combines the advantages of Dempster-Shafer theory with Bayesian networks in order to simulate the uncertain medical reasoning. We propose a hierarchical structure using Dempster-Shafer at the upper level for evaluating more general hypothesis (disease groups) and Bayesian networks at the lower level for a more accurate analysis of sp...