Associate Professor Daryl Pedler - Director, Gippsland Regional Clinical School

Daryl, educated at both Adelaide and Monash Universities, has over 20 years of experience in rural medicine.  After completing 2 years of hospital residency, he worked as a procedural GP in the small town of Cummins on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia.  This was followed by positions as Medical Educator and then State Director/ Medical Educator for South Australia/ Northern Territory of the (then) Family Medicine Program of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).  In 1987 he moved to the coastal city of Warrnambool in Victoria, where he became Director of Emergency Services and Deputy Director of Medical Services for South West Healthcare.  He also held part-time positions as Senior Lecturer for the University of Melbourne and then Monash University, before joining Monash in a full-time capacity in his present position.

He also served on the South Australian Faculty Board of the RACGP and has been a member of Faculty Committees of the RACGP in both South Australia and Victoria.  In 2002-3 he was a member of the Ministerial Review Panel which assessed the Role of Divisions of General Practice.

His particular interests are in the linking of the “clinical” and “community” level approaches to population health, rural injury research and educational issues, particularly issues in the quality of learning experiences the facilitation of small group learning.

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, The University of Adelaide
• Diploma, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
• Fellowship of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
• Master of Public Health, Monash University

Awards

• Victorian Healthcare Association Rural Health Award for “Outstanding Contribution to the Health of the Community” in the Barwon South West Region, 2002
• Western District Community Road Safety Council; outstanding service award, 1993

Organisational Affiliations

• Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (ATPM – USA)
• Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
• Australian Injury Prevention Network (AIPN)
• Fellowship of Rural Australian Medical Educators (FRAME)
• Public Health Association of Australia
• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
• The Australasian and New Zealand Association of Medical Educators (ANZAME: The Association for Health Professional Education)
• World Organisation of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/ Family Physicians (WONCA)

Research Interests

• Rural Injuries (especially Farm Injuries)
• Educational Research

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• Fragar L, Pedler D. ”Rural Injury”; chapter in “The Handbook of Rural Medicine in Australia, Wilkinson D, Hays R, Strasser R and Worley P (eds) Oxford University Press, 2004.