A total of 39 local, rural and remote clinics throughout the NT are to receive a fully equipped resource laptop as a state of the art resource tool. The computers will give supervisors and doctors-in-training ready access to online clinical teaching and learning materials plus a host of medical reference e-books and research tools.

These laptops are being presented to the clinics by Northern Territory General Practice Education (NTGPE), the NT’s only regional training provider and one of Australia’s leading providers of undergraduate and postgraduate medical and cultural education and training in rural and remote general practice, with a focus on Indigenous health. These laptops are the result of a successful funding application to Australian General Practice Education (AGPT), to provide clinics with a useful teaching and learning tool and offer trainee doctors a standardized high-level education resource across the NT.

NTGPE representatives are currently visiting each clinic to personally deliver the laptop and provide an orientation to the hardware, software and e-tools it contains. Many remote clinics have already taken ownership of their new computers and deliveries will continue throughout the NT in January and February 2012.

For more information please contact Prof. Michael Wilson, Executive Director
M: 0400 270 196 P: 08 8946 7079 E:[email protected]

Attached photo: Kane Ellis takes possession of the new laptop for Danila Dilba Health Service, Darwin from Wendy McCallum, Senior Marketing Officer for NTGPE in November 2011