| The new Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine, Professor Elizabeth ... The new Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine, Professor Elizabeth Farmer |
New Dean takes up post at Graduate School of Medicine
11 Jan 2008 | Renee Criddle
The new Dean of the University of Wollongong’s Graduate School of Medicine (GSM) officially started in her new role this week.
Professor Elizabeth Farmer is the first female general practitioner to become the Dean of a medical school in Australia.
She is taking over from Foundation Dean, Professor John Hogg, as the school heads into its second year of operation.
Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Patterson, praised Professor Hogg for his outstanding contribution in the establishment of the school and said that he would continue to make a major contribution as the school develops, particularly in strengthening the relationships with health communities in the Illawarra and regional and rural NSW.
Professor Farmer has moved from Adelaide where she was a General Practitioner as well as an academic at Flinders University.
She will now oversee the school’s unique model, including another cohort of 80 students in February as well as 300 GPs who have agreed to become honorary academics to help train students in their surgeries.
The GSM’s objective is to help address the existing critical shortage of doctors in regional, rural and remote Australia.
The school’s graduates will be equipped to be competent interns, and will enter into training for any branch of medicine which they choose to pursue. They will be particularly well equipped to practice in regional, rural or remote areas.
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