Professor Elizabeth Farmer BSc (Hons), MBBS PhD FRACGP was the Dean of Medicine at the University of Wollongong, Graduate School of Medicine, 2009-10. She received her bachelor degrees in medicine and surgery and an honours degree in Biochemistry at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London. After emigrating and training in paediatrics, general practice and community health in South Australia, she was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). She completed her doctorate in medical education at Flinders University. Professor Farmer’s previous appointments at Flinders University included a five-year term as inaugural Director of the Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development Program (PHC RED) a research capacity building program in primary care and a five year term as an Associate Professor in Medical Education and member of the executive team leading the process of curriculum reform to a graduate entry problem-based medical curriculum. Professor Farmer has served on many national committees and expert advisory groups including for the RACGP Board of Examiners, the National Standing Committees of Education and of Research of the RACGP, the National Breast Cancer Council, the Cancer Council Oncology Education Committee and the General Practice Education & Training Registrar Research and Scholarship Committee. She is a member of the International Editorial Board of the well respected international journal ‘Medical Education’ which has the highest impact factor in its field. She is also a member of the international steering committees for the International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS) and the international IDEAL Consortium.
Articles
Health care reform: can we maintain personal continuity? (with Andrew D. Bonney), Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (2010)
Healthcare reform is high on the political agenda, and among the critical issues that have...
A model of clinical problem-based learning for clinical attachments in medicine (with P McCrorie, Sandra C. Holmes, Derek C. Macallan, and Andrew Kent), Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (2009)
CONTEXT Problem-based learning (PBL) has been widely adopted in medical curricula for early-years training, but...
Will the NHHRC recommendations drive quality performance? (with Andrew D. Bonney), Australian Family Physician (2009)
General practice is the heart of the Australian health care system,1 addressing the health needs...
ABLE - assessment based learning (with D O'Halloran and Joachim P. Sturmberg), Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (2008)
Assessing general practice knowledge base: the applied clinical knowledge test (with Joachim P. Sturmberg), Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (2008)
Presentations
Medical students on long-term placements: a financial help or hindrance to preceptors? (with Judith N. Hudson and Kathryn M. Weston), Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (2011)
Background: Medical student education is perceived as negatively impacting on clinical productivity and income. The...
Tai chi for stress management and well-being in medical students (with Susan J. Thomas, Teresa M. Treweek, and John A. Bushnell), Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (2011)
Why do rural GPs engage in longitudinal integrated community-based clerkships at a time of workforce shortage? (with Judith N. Hudson and Kathryn M. Weston), Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (2010)
Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia? (with Judith N. Hudson, Kathryn M. Weston, Russell W. Pearson, and Rowena G. Ivers), Proceedings of the Third International Clinical Skills Conference, Prato, Tuscany, 1-4 July (2009)
Community-based medical education is escalating to meet the increased demand for quality clinical education in...
Does a short-term interprofessional clinical placement early in a graduate-entry medical course affect students' readiness for interprofessional learning? (with Russell Pearson, Rowena Ivers, Kathryn Weston, and Judith N. Hudson), Third International Clinical Skills Conference, Monash University, Melbourne (2009)
An inter-professional educational initiative involving two cohorts of first year graduate-entry medical students was piloted...