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Course outline: In this five-day course, students are given an overview of Aboriginal lifestyle, focussing on traditional and environmental responsibilities and the social practices of indigenous communities during pre- and post- colonial times.

The post-colonial section of the unit (...)

Australia is sometimes portrayed as a dangerous place, bulging with an array of deadly animals. Envenoming syndromes (toxicity due directly to the venom) occur most commonly to snake and redback spider bites on land and a variety of jellyfish in the sea. However the majority of deaths are caused by (...)

Presented by Douglas Osheroff, J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Physics, Stanford University and 1996 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics (with co-recipients David M. Lee and Robert C. Richardson).

How advances in science are made, and how they may come to benefit mankind at (...)

PASW Statistics (formerly SPSS, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a data management and analysis package used extensively in health research in WA.

It is available in hospitals, universities, government and other organisations. It is possible to 'teach yourself' with (...)

This is an intensive five-day course on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an introductory to intermediate level.

Rapid growth in data linkage projects has led to a shortfall in analyst skills.

Some researchers understand (...)

Two-Day Media Skills Workshop

9am to 5pm on December 4 & 11, 2009

The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA

Have you ever wondered… What makes a media friendly story? Why doesn’t the story look like the information I provided? Why do I feel at the media’s (...)

This is an intensive five-day course on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an intermediate to advanced level. Course outline

Advanced principles of health care epidemiology are combined with hands-on practical exercises in the (...)

This course has been developed in response to queries from researchers and students on practical ways to start involving consumers and the community in their research.

The aims of the two-day workshop are to:

* raise awareness of the contribution consumers and the (...)

This course focuses on the application of epidemiologic research principles to questions relating to clinical diagnosis, prognosis and the efficacy of therapeutic interventions.

Course outline: This five-day course considers: * design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials * (...)

Health informatics is a relatively new scientific discipline that incorporates knowledge from biomedicine, computer science, information science, psychology, business and other fields.

It deals with the systematic processing of data, information and knowledge in health in order to (...)

Modern medicine and drug discovery is being revolutionised by rapid advances in human genetics.

Building on the discovery of Gregor Mendel's work in 1900, the discovery of the structure of DNA in the 1950s and elucidation of the genetic code in the 1960s, the 21st century has witnessed (...)

An informal evening at which students considering applying for entry into the RCSWA in 2011 will have the opportunity to view displays, meet staff and have their questions answered.

The 2010 Scientific Meeting will present both international and keynote speakers and incorporate a series of procedural and research workshops.