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Education Committee

The Education Committee is responsible for the identification, evaluation and monitoring of education and training programs for pre-vocational medical officers and other non-vocational doctors. The Education Committee will report to the Council on strategies and outcomes.

The Terms of Reference for the Education Committee are as follows.

1. Overseeing and co-ordinating the training and education of doctors in the early postgraduate years, focussing particularly on the first two years and thereafter on those doctors not in specialised vocational training.
2. Monitoring and promoting the development and implementation of quality educational programs in all clinical settings employing pre-vocational trainees, to prepare them for unsupervised independent medical practice.
3. Supporting clinicians in education and assessment of junior medical staff by:
   • developing resources and guidelines to assist clinical supervisors; and
   • developing resources and mechanisms for vocational and remedial training.
4. Providing guidelines to support Directors of Clinical Training.

Education Committee Composition

Full Members

• Chair
  Dr Gerard Ryan
• Representative Royal Australasian Colleges of Physicians
  Associate Professor Fiona Lake
• Representative of School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame
  Professor Adrian Bower
• Representative/s of the Directors of Postgraduate Medical Education
  Associate Professor Ian Rogers, Dr Jolyon Ford & Dr Elizabeth Croston
• Representative/s of the Directors of Clinical Training
  Dr Alistair Vickery
• Chair, Postgraduate Medical Council of Western Australia
  Professor Lou Landau
• Representative of Clinical Training and Education Centre (CTEC)
  Professor Jeff Hamdorf
• Representative of Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
  Professor Geoff Riley
  
• Director of Clinical Training
  Dr Andre Schultz
• Representative of Junior Medical Officers
  Dr Irwin Kashani
• Representative of AMA (WA) Doctors in Training
  Dr Emma Allanson
• Representative/s of Medical Education Officers
  Ms Stephanie Ho, Ms Jacqui Pettett, Ms Zoe Moran, Ms Susan King & Ms Chhavi Pal

Ex-officio

• Coordinator, Postgraduate Medical Council of Western Australia (Secretariat)
  Ms Sheree Keech
• A/Programs Officer, Postgraduate Medical Council Western Australia (Secretariat)
  Mr Robert Evans
• Administration Officer, Postgraduate Medical Council of Western Australia
  Ms Ranj Jagadish

The Education Committee meets every second month. For further details of when the Education Committee will next meet, download the PMCWA calendar.

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