Professional Development
 
Australian health care is in a state of transition. As we move through the 21st Century, health care will be more focused on maintaining health and preventing diseases.

We are seeing a significant shift from a primarily hospital-centred inpatient approach, based on the traditional medical model, to a more outpatient-oriented approach, based on the health or preventive medicine model.

In a sub-acute setting such as BHS, educating health care practitioners in the coming years with this increasingly obsolete model, which treats diseases once they are diagnosed, will not be the most appropriate approach. 

Professional Development programs at Broadmeadows Health Service aim to address these fundamental changes in the delivery of health care to meet the needs of our population, as well as to support a future health care model that will enable practitioners to meet changing community expectations.

For example, the way we deliver health care to our community, particularly in respect to the concept of Positive Ageing, is already changing. This is having a significant impact on the Professional Development of all health care professionals.