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Associate Professor Neil Spike

Head - Department of General Practice

MBBS, FRACGP

Telephone: +61 3 8575 2212
   
Facsimile: +61 3 8575 2233
   
Email: neil.spike@med.monash.edu.au

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Director of Education for the School of Primary Health Care:

  • Coordination, development, implementation, delivery, assessment and evaluation of IPE within the departments of the School.
  • Fostering of international links with institutions to promote the unique teaching and research opportunities within the framework of primary health care.
  • Development of teaching and research collaborations, nationally and internationally, in primary health care.
  • Coordination of School activities with Head of School and the Directors of Research and Administration.


PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Analysis of the RACGP Fellowship Examination Results. Spike NA & Veitch PC. Australian Family Physician. 1990; 19(5): 767 - 775.
  2. Procedural Skills for General Practice: The Results of a Queensland Survey. Spike NA & Veitch PC. Australian Family Physician. 1990; 19(10): 1545 - 1553.
  3. Competency of Medical Students in General Practice Procedural Skills. Spike NA & Veitch PC. Australian Family Physician. 1991; 20(5): 586 - 591.
  4. General Practice Procedural Skills. Spike NA & Veitch PC. Australian Family Physician. 1991; 20(9): 1312 - 1316.
  5. Longitudinal reliability of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Certification Examination. Hays RB, van der Vleuten C, Fabb WE & Spike NA. Medical Education.  1995; 29(4): 317-321.
  6. The College Examination.  Neil A Spike (Editor) Published by The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. RACGP Melbourne, 1996.
  7. The Relationship Between Age of Candidates and Performance in the FRACGP Examination. Spike NA & Veitch PC.  Advances in Medical Education. Scherpbier, AJJA, van der Vleuten, CPM, Rethans, JJ and vander Steeg, AFW. Eds. 1997. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 490-493.
  8. Performance of Training and Non-Training Route Candidates in the RACGP Fellowship Examination.  Spike NA. Proceedings of the Eighth Ottawa Conference on Medical Education and Assessment. Published on Web based CD-Rom. July 1998. National Board of Medical Examiners, Philadelphia.
  9. Evolution or Revolution – The Redevelopment of the RACGP Fellowship Examination.  Spike N. Focus on Health Professional Education. 1999; 1 (1): 76-84.
  10. Analysis by Training Status of Performance in the Certifying Examination for Australian Family Doctors Spike NA & Hays RB. Medical Education 1999;33:612-615.
  11. In-training assessment – its potential in enhancing clinical teaching.  Spike N, Alexander H, Elliott S, Hazlett C, Kilminster S, Prideaux D and Roberts T. Medical Education. 2000; 34:858-861.
  12. Performance assessment of general practitioners with different levels of training and experience: a pilot study. Hays R, Spike N and Sen Gupta T. 2000. Published by Outcomes Evaluation Unit (RACGP).
  13. Is medical postgraduate certification improving health outcomes?  Spike N. Medical Education. 2002; 36:7-8.
  14. Assessing communication skills of GP registrars: a comparison of GP and examiner ratings. Greco, M, Spike, N, Powell, R, Brownlea, A. Medical Education. 2002; 36:366-376.
  15. A performance assessment module for experienced general practitioners.  Hays R, Spike N, Sen Gupta T, Hollins J, Veitch J. Medical Education. 2002; 36:258-260.
  16. Are orals worth talking about? Spike N & Jolly B.  Medical Education. 2003; 37:92-93.
  17. New challenges in assessment of clinical competence. Spike N. 2004; http://bmj.bmjjournal.com/cgi/content/full/329/7461/335/DC1/
  18. Learning needs analysis. O’Shea C. & Spike N. Australian Family Physician. 2005; (Supplement) 34:41-43.
  19. International Medical Graduates: An Australian perspective. Spike N. Academic Medicine. 2006; 81(9):842-846.
  20. General Practice Education And Training– Could China Adopt Australian Apprenticing Model? Yang Hui, Shane Thomas, Colette Browning, Neil Spike.  Journal of Chinese General Practice, 2007, 10(13): 1046-1051
  21. Multidisciplinary Clinical Assessment Task Guide, AMC Publication. 2008.  Spike N on editorial panel.
  22. IMPLEmenting a clinical practice guideline for acute low back pain evidence-based manageMENT in general practice (IMPLEMENT): Cluster randomised controlled trial study protocol. McKenzie J, French S, O’Connor D, Grimshaw J, Michie S, Francis J, Spike N, Schattner P, Kent P, Buchbinder R and Green S. Implementation Science 2008, 3:11