Advanced Networking at

Flinders University - Flinders Medical Centre,

South Australia

Colin Carati … on behalf of Flinders University

colin.carati@flinders.edu.au

Academic Programs

• Graduate Entry, Problem Based Medical Course

• Nutitrition and Dietetics• Speech Pathology and

Audiology• Biotechnology• Environmental Health• Community Health• Biomedical and Health Sciences• Postgraduate programs

School of Medicine, Flinders University

Research Centres include:

• Centre for Neuroscience • Research Centre for Injury Studies• Immunology and Inflammation • Centre for Ageing Studies • National Centre for Education and

Training on Addiction • Heart, Lung and Circulation• Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal• Cancer • Digestive Sciences • Environmental Health • Biotechnology • Drugs and Toxicology • Paediatric Nutrition

closely associated with Flinders Medical Centre

• 400 bed hospital• largest Emergency Centre

in Southern Australia• part of major health care

region• adjacent to private hospital

• VideoConferencing facilitiesISDN and IP

• Access Grid

• Virtual Reality, 3-D

• medical students learning in remote sites

• in hospitals

• in general practices

• regular videoconferenced lessons using DSL

• access to on-line resources maintained at FU

• personal and professional interactions with others at

remote site

• administration

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Medical Applications

• Clinical interactions with remote sites• Psychiatry• Renal• Cardiac

• Nursing Education to Remote Hospitals• Consulting Services• Administration

• Southern Adelaide Health Services

Preadmission advice → mobile networking

partnership between

• Flinders University• University of Adelaide• University of South Australia

Australia's Academic and Research Network

Current and Future Projects

• Nanotechnology, teaching and research - remote control of significant research equipment

• Neuroscience research collaborations using VR

• Biomedical Engineering - training programs in Malaysia and China

• Postgraduate and Specialist Training Bariatric Surgery

Advanced Networking for Training in

Bariatric Surgery

• training of practising surgeons

• 1-2 day seminars using Access Grid, 3-4 times per year

• followup – mentoring / guidance by real-time HDV of first few operations

Kyushu University, Japan and Flinders University, Australia

Three paths from Australia

AARnet

Southern Cross

Australia Japan Cable

SEAMEWE3or New Cable

APCN2

We welcome collaborations !

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