News
10 Nov 2023
Treatment of heart attacks at rural and urban hospitals
Patients who go to urban hospitals after having a heart attack receive more time...
07 Nov 2022
Med Safety Week
It's Med Safety Week. Watch the video to learn what to do if you experience side...
15 Sep 2022
Events
News stories and upcoming events at the Department of General Practice and Rural...
05 Aug 2022
Health outcomes for rural communities may be poorer than previously thought
A joint project by the Universities of Otago and Waikato to reclassify what is c...
22 Jun 2021
The psychosocial impact of Mycoplasma bovis on Southern farmers
A poorly managed government response to the 2017 Mycoplasma bovis outbreak infli...
04 May 2021
New Chair of Rural Health to be established
The University of Otago is establishing a Chair of Rural Health as part of its c...
12 Apr 2021
Medication-related harm ‘common’ in New Zealand - Otago study
Medication-related harm ‘common’ in New Zealand - Otago study...
23 Feb 2021
Rural doctor training programme boosting workforce
A programme launched to address a serious rural workforce shortage has helped fi...
12 Feb 2021
Cannabis provides relief for “desperate” endometriosis sufferers – study
Cannabis provides relief for “desperate” endometriosis sufferers – study...
26 Nov 2020
Turning on a dime – pre and post COVID-19 consultation patterns in an urban general practice
In this study Dr Carol Atmore and Tim Stokes looked at how patients consulted wi...
08 May 2020
Dying New Zealanders should be trusted to make decisions about assisted dying
Dying New Zealanders think they can and should be trusted to know what’s right a...
25 Mar 2020
Otago experts warn pandemic risks accentuating rural-urban health inequities
Otago experts warn pandemic risks accentuating rural-urban health inequities...
02 Jul 2019
Continuing Medical Education
Information about continuing medical education for health professionals, includi...
12 Mar 2019
Number of poisoning-related deaths in New Zealand remain high
Number of poisoning-related deaths in New Zealand remain high...
05 Mar 2019
Otago academics find euthanasia debate will challenge decision-makers
Otago academics find euthanasia debate will challenge decision-makers...
22 Feb 2019
Otago research highlights need to improve access to healthcare for high-needs patients
Otago research highlights need to improve access to healthcare for high-needs pa...
01 Feb 2019
Otago academics question whether it is timely to salary GPs and abolish patient fees
University of Otago academic health and business leaders consider it timely for...
22 Jan 2019
Otago academic offers new explanation for Alexander the Great’s death
It may have happened more than 2300 years ago, but the mystery of Alexander the...
16 Jan 2019
University of Otago to study the impacts of mycoplasma bovis on farmers and their communities
The University of Otago will carry out a study on the emotional, social and psyc...
09 Nov 2018
Boost in training health professionals rurally under ‘virtual’ school proposal
Boost in training health professionals rurally under ‘virtual’ school proposal...
29 Oct 2018
Study investigates link between loneliness and age in elderly New Zealanders
Study investigates link between loneliness and age in elderly New Zealanders...
07 Aug 2018
Otago demonstrates its commitment to rural health with new ‘virtual campus’
Otago demonstrates its commitment to rural health with new ‘virtual campus’...
17 Nov 2017
Workplace interventions required to keep rapidly expanding aging workforce safe
With the burden of work-related injuries in older employees only set to increase...
08 Nov 2017
Otago research aims to fill gap in views on assisted dying
A researcher at the University of Otago is hoping to ascertain, for the first ti...
17 Nov 2016
Pat Farry Trust Rural Health Education Travelling Scholarships for 2016/17
Recipients of the Pat Farry Trust Rural Health Education Travelling Scholarships...
01 Nov 2016
Northernmost medical school meets southernmost medical school
A news story regarding a visiting scholar from the world's northernmost medical...
18 Oct 2016
Visiting Scholar at Robert Graham Center
Dr Fiona Doolan-Noble is a Larry A Green Visiting Scholar...
07 Mar 2016
A new take on supporting very large patients
Devising ways to better support very large patients is the focus of a collaborat...
24 Feb 2016
Clinical Research PhD Prize for 2015
Clinical Research Phd Prize for 2015...
16 Feb 2016
GP awarded 2016 Health Research Council Foxley Fellowship
Dr Atmore will be based in the Department of General Practice and Rural Health o...
01 Dec 2015
HRC funded study to examine the delivery of COPD care in the southern region
Study to examine delivery of COPD care in southern region...
27 Jul 2015
Stroke/TIA tool developed for primary care
PhD student Dr Anna Ranta has developed a trigger tool to help diagnose and mana...
28 May 2015
Editorship role for Professor of General Practice
Editorship role for Professor of General Practice...
27 May 2015
Study to examine New Zealanders’ expectations of death
Study to examine New Zealanders’ expectations of death...
16 Mar 2015
Welcome Dr Maeve O'Beirne, sabbatical visitor
We are excited to be hosting Dr Maeve O’Beirne, a Sabbatical Visitor from Univer...
09 Mar 2015
Rural patients in the South receive fewer CT scans
Rural patients in southern New Zealand are much less likely to receive computed...
07 Jan 2015
Delivering better primary health care to people with multimorbidity in Otago: Qualitative study
Health Care Otago Charitable Trust funds mulitmorbidity primary health care deli...
04 Dec 2014
Clinical research scholarship awarded
Clinical research scholarship awarded to Dr Anel Reyneke for GP research...
15 Jul 2014
UK primary care expert takes up Elaine Gurr Chair in General Practice
A leading UK academic general practitioner, Professor Tim Stokes, has this month...
09 Jun 2014
Patient harms in New Zealand general practices: Records review study
Health Research Council funding has been awarded to Professor Susan Dovey and co...
13 Nov 2013
Department of General Practice and Rural Health celebrates 30 years
Thirty years may not seem much when put in the context of the nearly 150-year hi...
01 Jul 2013
Rethinking the role of the modern doctor
Dunedin School of Medicine lecturers Hamish Wilson and Wayne Cunningham present...
19 Jun 2009
Ethnic disparities in hospital care in New Zealand
Research by the University of Otago, Christchurch indicates there may be dispari...