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College News Archive
UK student’s excellent dentistry adventure
Thu, 1 Nov 2018
Categories: Students.
Not many dentistry students decide to travel across the world to re-connect with the tutor who supervised their first tooth extraction.
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Make a difference in PNG
Wed, 29 Aug 2018
Categories: Alumni.
You’ve done the Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine degree at JCU - now how can you apply what you have learnt? Two JCU alumni doctors - Dr Merrilee Frankish and Dr Matt Kelly found Australian Doctors International (ADI) the answer. ADI is an
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Healing words
Tue, 10 Jul 2018
Categories: Staff.
Jacki Mein’s determination to improve health literacy began the day, as a young doctor in Darwin, she discovered an Aboriginal patient’s prescribed tablets, abandoned and scattered outside the entrance to her clinic.
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Stepping up to save lives in Syria
Thu, 5 Jul 2018
Categories: Staff.
When James Cook University Adjunct Professor of Traumatology, Dr Herwig Drobetz, decided to work in a gutted hospital in war-riven Syria, his task was monumental, but straightforward – to stem the flow of blood.
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Passport to (dental) adventure
Mon, 18 Jun 2018
Categories: Students.
Have scalpel, will travel. Seven JCU Bachelor of Dental Surgery students recently found themselves treating outreach patients within temples in rural Sri Lanka.
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