Tim Baker
Role and profile
Clinical Associate Professor Baker is a Specialist Emergency Physician and the Director of the Center for Rural Emergency Medicine. Associate Professor Baker works clinically in two rural emergency departments and lectures to health professionals on a wide variety of emergency topics. Associate Professor Baker's work focuses on understanding the way that rural emergency departments work and how their communities use them.
Teaching responsibilities
Coordinator of the School of Medicine Emergency Department Curriculum Working GroupLecturer in HME301-302 Medicine Lecturer HME401 Emergency Medicine Lecturer HMF701 Agricultural Health and Medicine Associate Supervisor of 2 PhD students Research interests
Clinical Associate Professor Baker's research focuses on the activity and performance of small rural emergency departments: where and when patients present, why they present, the type of practitioner that sees them and the investigations and procedures that they perform, what the final diagnosis is and where the patient goes to next. This baseline data can then be used to develop innovative solutions to the problem of delivering emergency care in isolated settings. He is also interested in health literacy in emergency situations, particularly with chest pain. Do rural residents know where and when to access emergency care?
Memberships
Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency MedicineBaker, T. (2009). Small rural emergency departments are not simply cut-down large urban emergency departments. Aust J Rural Health, 17(6), 291 Service to the University, discipline or community
Barwon-South Western Regional Emergency and Critical Care Advisory Committee (RECCAC)Department of Health Cardiac Clinical Network Acute Coronary Syndrome Subcommittee National Center for Farmer Health Training and Advisory Committee National Center for Farmer Health Professional Training and Education Advisory Group |
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15th June 2012