Kathryn Fitzgerald

ORCID: 0009-0009-4426-8619
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Research Areas
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Service-Learning and Community Engagement
  • Historical Education Studies Worldwide
  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
  • American History and Culture
  • American Environmental and Regional History
  • Lexicography and Language Studies
  • Historical Education and Society
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Digital Humanities and Scholarship
  • Race, History, and American Society
  • Education Methods and Practices
  • Dental Education, Practice, Research
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Cultural Competency in Health Care
  • Open Education and E-Learning
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving

The University of Western Australia
2015-2025

University of Utah
1994

Rural and remote communities in Australia fare worse than their urban counterparts across major health indicators, with geographic isolation, restricted accessibility to services, socioeconomic disadvantage, lifestyle behavioural factors all implicated poorer outcomes. Health disparities, which are especially stark Australian Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander populations, underscore the urgent need build a culturally responsive respectful rural workforce. Allied student placements settings...

10.1186/s12939-017-0615-x article EN cc-by International Journal for Equity in Health 2017-07-06

Objective: To better understand barriers and enablers to uptake of dementia training in rural remote areas using input from aged health care workers into how could be offered meet their needs. Methods: Roundtable focus groups were conducted six diverse locations four jurisdictions around Australia. Sixty-seven predominantly nursing, allied health, support worker roles involved participated. Data collected by site used a mixture face-to-face virtual facilitated 'roundtable' discussions. Each...

10.3390/geriatrics10010028 article EN cc-by Geriatrics 2025-02-14

This study examines composition at public Midwestern normal schools, the teacher training institutions of nineteenth and early twentieth century. It argues that unique social environment, educational aims, intellectual traditions school gave rise to attitudes about theory, methods, teachers, students are much more compatible with composition's contemporary ethic than those associated elite Eastern colleges where origins have most often been studied.

10.2307/359077 article EN College Composition and Communication 2001-12-01

10.37514/jbw-j.1994.13.2.02 article EN Journal of Basic Writing 1994-01-01

Abstract Undergraduates who undertake rural placements often choose a career. Reluctance from universities to send students settings limits placement numbers. The Western Australian Centre for Rural Health (WACRH) invited allied health and nursing academics clinical coordinators (WA) an A cademic B ush C amp. Based on situated learning theory, this camp modelled student programs through experiential structured workshops. It aimed build relationships showcase innovative opportunities....

10.1111/ajr.12199 article EN Australian Journal of Rural Health 2015-06-29

<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Background: </bold>Together with addressing social determinants of health, culturally safe healthcare provision is essential for closing the health outcomes gap experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians. Rural placements potentially provide students professions opportunities to enhance their knowledge skills regarding cultural safety. We used rural data systematically collected from allied students, including commencement-...

10.21203/rs.3.rs-4022446/v1 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2024-03-19

Together with addressing social determinants of health, culturally safe healthcare provision is essential for closing the health outcomes gap experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians. Rural placements potentially provide students professions opportunities to enhance their knowledge skills regarding cultural safety. We used rural data systematically collected from allied students, including commencement- end-of-placement questionnaire responses,...

10.1186/s12909-024-06207-2 article EN cc-by BMC Medical Education 2024-11-01

Introduction In rural areas, work-integrated learning in the form of health student placements has several potential benefits, including contributing to learning, enhancing service capacity and attracting future workforce. Understanding what constitutes a high-quality placement experience is important for these outcomes. There no current standardised definition quality context placements, nor there understanding how this can be achieved across different contexts. This study guided by one...

10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077079 article EN cc-by-nc BMJ Open 2024-03-01

n this essay I examine the far-reaching cultural implications of a kind writing not usually deemed culturally significant-school assignments. The forty-four papers under study here were written in 1898 by senior class members Platteville Normal School southwestern Wisconsin, and assigned to commemorate fiftieth anniversary Wisconsin's statehood. My purposes examining these might be visualized concentric circles. At center are student themselves, embedded sociohistorical moment at which they...

10.2307/3250735 article EN College English 2002-01-01

This study examines composition at public Midwestern normal schools, the teacher training institutions of nineteenth and early twentieth century. It argues that unique social environment, educational aims, intellectual traditions school gave rise to attitudes about theory, methods, teachers, students are much more compatible with composition’s contemporary ethic than those associated elite Eastern colleges where origins have most often been studied.

10.58680/ccc20011449 article EN College Composition and Communication 2001-12-01

Examines the far-reaching cultural implications of a kind writing not usually deemed culturally significant--school assignments. Studies 44 papers written in 1898 by senior class members Platteville Normal School southwestern Wisconsin assigned to commemorate fiftieth anniversary Wisconsin’s statehood. work accomplished these student writers their own time and place.

10.58680/ce20021250 article EN College English 2002-01-01
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