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Background
Dick has a background in general practice and medical education. From 1982-1992, he combined working as a general practitioner in inner city Melbourne, with teaching in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Melbourne and the RACGP Training Program. He completed a Graduate Diploma of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Melbourne in 1991.
From 1992-1993, he worked for a remote Aboriginal health service in north west South Australia. In 1994, he returned to Melbourne and resumed inner city general practice. He works as a GP at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, teaches in the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit at the University of Melbourne and is employed at the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation to co-ordinate Aboriginal health training for Victorian doctors training to be general practitioners. He is completing a PhD about Aboriginal obstetric and child health in the remote communities where he worked, supervised by Professor Judith Lumley, Director of the Centre for the Study of Mothers’ and Children’s Health, in the School of Public Health, at La Trobe University.
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