Professor Amanda Barnard

Contacts

Contact email:amanda.barnard@anu.edu.au
Contact phone:+61 2 6125 7657
Location:ANU Medical School, 54 Mills Road, ANU, Acton ACT 2601
Centre:Rural Clinical School
Link:ANU Researchers profile
MBBS, FRACGP
Professor, Rural and Indigenous Health, ANU School of Medicine and Psychology
Rural Clinical School, ANU School of Medicine and Psychology
ANU College of Health and Medicine

Professor Amanda Barnard has returned to the ANU Medical School as Interim Associate Director, Rural and Indigenous Health and Head of the Rural Clinical School. Amanda has practiced as a General Practitioner in both rural and urban areas, and currently continues her clinical work in Braidwood, a small town in NSW.

She has a long term interest in asthma and respiratory disease in primary care, being a foundation member of the General Practitioners in Asthma Group of the National Asthma Council Australia. She has written and researched in the area, and is currently a member of the National Monitoring of Asthma and Other Chronic Respiratory Conditions Advisory Group and the General Practice Advisory Group of the Lung Foundation Australia. An awarded teacher and educator, Amanda currently serves on a number of state and national bodies with education, training, rural workforce and health system briefs, and tries to bring a rigorous primary care perspective to her work on them.

Professor Barnard was more recently the interim Head of School for the Charles Sturt University and Western University Joint Program in Medicine.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Respiratory Diseases
  • Primary Health Care
  • Medicine, Nursing and Health Curriculum and Pedagogy

Specialisation

  • General Practice

Research interests

Medical Education
Rural Medical Education
Primary Care
Asthma and COPD primary care
Gender issues in health care

  • Thomson, J, Haesler, E, Anderson, K et al. 2014, 'What motivates general practitioners to teach', Clinical Teacher, The, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 124-130.
  • Thomson, J, Anderson, K, Haesler, E et al. 2014, 'THE LEARNER'S PERSPECTIVE IN GP TEACHING PRACTICES WITH MULTI-LEVEL LEARNERS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY', BMC Medical Education, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 55-55.
  • Owen, C & Barnard, J 2013, 'Student perception on external clinical teaching visits in a rural medical program', Rural and Remote Health, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1-2.
  • Owen, C, Barnard, J & Mason, N 2013, 'Comparing assessment outcomes in rural longitudinal placements as a confidence boost to rural supervisors', Australian Journal of Rural Health, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 190-191.
  • Owen, C, Barnard, J & Bestic, K 2013, 'Learning trajectories in longitudinal rural medical school placements', Clinical Teacher, The, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 379-383.
  • Madden, J, Barnard, J & Owen, C 2013, 'Utilisation of multidisciplinary services for diabetes care in the rural setting', Australian Journal of Rural Health, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 28-34.
  • Roughead, E, Kalisch, L, Pratt, N et al. 2012, 'Managing glaucoma in those with co-morbidity: Not as easy as it seems', Opthalmic Epidemiology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 74-82.
  • Lee, Y, Barnard, J & Owen, C 2011, 'Initial evaluation of rural programs at the Australian National University: understanding the effects of rural programs on intentions for rural and remote medical practice', Rural and Remote Health, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. P1602-11.
  • Barnard A, Owen C, Tyson A, Martin S.2011, 'Maximising student preparation for clinical teaching placements', Clinical Teacher, The, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 88-92.
  • Hall, S, Phillips, C, Gray, P et al 2011, 'Where there is no gold standard: Mixed method research in a cluster randomised trial of a tool for safe prioritising of patients by medical receptionists', International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, vol. 5, pp. 25-39.
  • Piggin A, Barnard A, Owen, C 2011, 'Impact of clinical audit in the care of coronary heart disease: The experience of a rural general practice', Australian Journal of Rural Health, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 160-161.
  • Coles, J, Barnard, J, Howe, A et al. 2010, 'Making the 2007-2010 Action Plan work for women in family medicine in the Asia Pacific', Asia Pacific Family Medicine, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-1.
  • Braithwaite, J, Westbrook, J, Foxwell, A et al. 2007, 'An action research protocol to strengthen system-wide inter-professional learning and practice', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 7, pp. 144-154.
  • Barnard, J, Pond, C & Usherwood, T 2005, 'Asthma and older people in general practice', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 183, no. 1 Suppl, pp. S41-S43.
  • Barnard, J 2005, 'Management of an acute asthma attack', Australian Family Physician, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 531-534.

General Practice, primary health care, rural medical education, asthma and COPD in primary care.