Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences School of Rural Health

Professor Dawn E. DeWitt

 
 

MD, MSc, FACP, FRACP
Professor of Rural Medical Education, Associate Dean Rural, University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences                                 
OFFICE ADDRESS
University of Melbourne
School of Rural Health
49 Graham Street
PO Box 6500
SHEPPARTON  VIC 3632

Phone:  03 5823 4582
Fax:      03 5823 4555

RESPONSIBILITIES

Head, School of Rural Health

Clinical Dean, Rural Clinical School

HONORS

Inaugural Washington Alumni, 2006

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, 2002

Best Doctors In America, 2001

Golden Apple Teaching Award, 2000

Winner, American College of Physicians National Clinical Vignette Abstract Competition, 1994

Marshall Scholar, Cambridge University, 1984

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Medical education (rural)

Community-based teaching

Career choice and satisfaction

Diabetes

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Alguire P, DeWitt DE, Pinsky L, Ferenchik G. Teaching in Your Office. American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia: 2008, 2nd Edition (in press).

DeWitt et al Development of a common national questionnaire to evaluate student perceptions about the Australian Rural Clinical Schools Program. EJRRH

DeWitt DE, Hirsch IB. Outpatient Insulin Therapy in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. JAMA, 2003; 289:2254-2264.

Jensen CC, DeWitt DE. The Reported Value of Rural Internal Medicine Residency Electives and Factors that Influence Rural Career Choice. J Rural Health, 2002; 18:25-30.

DeWitt DE, Burke W, Curtis JR. What influences career choices among graduates of a primary care training Program? JGIM, 1998

 

 

EDUCATION & TRAINING

M.Sc. in Zoology,
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1984-86

M.D., Harvard Medical
School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990

Internship, University of
Washington, Seattle,Washington, 1990-91

Residency, University of
Washington, Seattle,Washington, 1991-93

Chief Medical Resident,
University of Washington, Medical Center, Seattle,Washington, 1993- 94

Teaching Scholars,
University of Washington, 1998-1999

 


 

 

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