Student projects available at the Rural Clinical School

This list is not exhaustive, new projects will be added regularly

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Dealing with failure to attend general and specialist paediatric clinics in Central Queensland: Strategies, trends, and Future directions

Project name: Dealing with failure to attend general and specialist paediatric clinics in Central Queensland: Strategies, trends, and Future directions

Location: This project is available to Rockhampton students only

Project type: Chart audits, Qualitative/mixed methods

Supervisor: Assoc/Prof Sunday Pam (Head, Rockhampton Rural Clinical Unit)

Anticipated project duration: 6 months

Project summary:

The main aim of this audit is to define how frequent DNA is in Central Queensland and the associated factors. It is also intended to describe the trend over the past 7 years as a means of assessing the impact of some of the recently introduced strategies to mitigate DNA.

Enquiries: To enquire about any of the available projects, please email rcsrc@uq.edu.au with the project title as the subject line.

How long before we get it right? Appropriate and inappropriate imaging in Paediatric Acute UTI

Project name: How long before we get it right? Appropriate and inappropriate imaging in Paediatric Acute UTI

Location: Central Queensland (Gladstone & Yeppoon)

Project type: Chart Audits

Supervisor: Assoc/Prof Sunday Pam (Head, Rockhampton Rural Clinical Unit, The University of Queensland)

Anticipated project duration: Minimum three weeks data collection

Project summary:

This project assesses the adherence to imaging principles in pediatric Acute UTI. It is a retrospect study looking at four hospitals in the same health service. We aim to collect about 1100 episodes of UTI which is robust enough for most complex analyses on the subject. So far, we have collected over 800 episodes of Paediatric Acute UTI.

Enquiries: To enquire about any of the available projects, please email rcsrc@uq.edu.au with the project title as the subject line.