Bill Lord- Should the colour of your skin matter?

In this episode we are thrilled to speak with Associate Professor Bill Lord. Bill is an Adjunct Associate Professor within the Monash University Department of Paramedicine. Bill is also currently deputy co-chair of the Paramedicine Accreditation Committee within the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Bill has been a paramedic since 1981 and worked in universities and ambulance services across Australia in that time. Bill is going to discuss an article he has recently co-authored titled “Influence of patient race on administration of analgesia by student paramedics”. Link to the study can be found here: https://bmcemergmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12873-019-0245-2 (open access)

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The Department of Paramedicine podcast aims to share and disseminate the latest research and scholarship from academics and researchers at Monash University and paramedicine experts around the world. We aim to cover as many diverse topics as possible and hear from our faculty, students and domestic and international colleagues at different stages of their academic, research and clinical careers. We know you are busy, so we aim to keep each episode easily digestible. We want each episode to be easy to listen to and have aimed to make each episode conversational, relaxed and not full of research jargon. We want you to relate the discussions of different paramedicine systems and results of each study to your experiences so that we can positively impact providing better clinical care and ensure that our paramedic practice is based on sound clinical evidence. We hope you enjoy every episode. All music used is unrestricted or under a creative commons license. Artist credit: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Mission_Ready