Health Professionals

Emerald R&R Seminar Series

Emerald R&R is a bi-monthly seminar and discussion series, hosted by CQCRRH to benefit and inform health professionals and health services in Central Queensland.

Emerald R&R seminars offer a delicious free lunch, a stimulating presentation, and also a lively discission of topics which intersect current research with rural health service practice.

Emerald R&R seminars have included:

• An exploration of the implications and pitfalls of the concept and term “thin markets” (which many funders use to characterise rural and remote health, welfare and disability services).
• A presentation of the process and outcomes of an Occupational Therapy student service-learning initiative in the Gemfields.
• A look at contemporary research on different models of Rural Aged Care Services, and discussion of the implications for Central Queensland.
• A presentation on working at the edge of your scope as a rural health professional (Two invited academics talked about the outcomes and lessons learned from their research on rural health professionals being called on to work at the boundaries of their scope of practice).
• An overview of research on integrating health care planning in Clermont. (We heard about a major place-based planning project in the nearby Central Queensland town of Clermont and discussed implications for local services and service implementation, and the broader health / services workforce).