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Dr Ruth McNair
PhD Student |
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200 Berkeley Street
Carlton
VICTORIA 3053 |
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+61 3 8344 6077 |
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+61 3 9347 6136 |
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r.mcnair@unimelb.edu.au |
| qualifications |
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MBBS, DRANZCOG, DA (UK), FRACGP, FACRRM |
| thesis title |
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Disclosure and attitudes to lesbians: outcomes in General Practice (DIALOG) |
| thesis description |
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DIALOG is designed to develop an understanding of the doctor-patient relationship that forms between non-heterosexual women and their usual general practitioner (GP). 'Non-heterosexual women' is defined in this study to be women who self-identify as lesbian or bisexual, are living or have lived in a same-sex relationship and/or have had same-sex sexual experience. One aspect of the doctor-patient relationship that will be explored in depth is whether women inform their GP of their sexuality, and whether disclosure or non-disclosure affects the perceived quality of the doctor-patient relationship and the resulting health care. The results will help to inform education programs for doctors and non-heterosexual consumers regarding methods for enhancing the doctor-patient relationship. Information will be gathered using interviews with patients and doctors.
The research methodology is qualititative, using a phenomenological approach. Interviews will be conducted with lesbians and bisexual women, and with GPs in order to discover the perspectives of each person.
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- Dr Kelsey Hegarty, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne
- Dr Angela Taft, Centre for Mother’s and Children’s Health, La Trobe University
- Prof Patty Robertson, Lesbian Health Research Center, University of California, San Francisco
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| research interests |
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Lesbian health, doctor-patient communication, medical education |
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Brown S, Dawson W, Gunn J, McNair R. Review of shared obstetric care. Melbourne: Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, La Trobe University; 1999.
McNair R. Outing Lesbian Health in Medical Education. In: Manderson L, editor. Teaching Gender, Teaching Women's Health Case Studies in Medical and Health Science Education. New York: The Haworth Press Inc; 2003. p.89-103.
McNair R. Sexuality. In: O'Connor V, Kovacs G, editors. Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press; 2003. p.9, 65-66, 93, 433-434, 465-466.
McNair R. Lesbian parenthood: an imaginative fertility. In: the Fertile Imagination: narratives of reproduction (special book issue). Melbourne: Meridian, The La Trobe University English Review; 2002. p.267-287.
Perlesz A, McNair R. Lesbian Parenting: Insiders' Voices Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 2004. 25(2):129-140.
Hillier L, De Visser R, Kavanagh A, McNair R. The association between licit and illicit drug use and sexuality in young Australian women. Medical Journal of Australia 2003; 179(6):326-327.
McNair R. Lesbian health inequalities: a cultural minority issue for health professionals. Medical Journal of Australia 2003; 178: 643-645.
McNair R, Deborah DJ, Wise S, Perlesz A. Lesbian parenting issues, strengths and cllenges. Family Matters 2002; 63: 40-49.
McNair R, Anderson S, Mitchell A. Addressing health inequalities in Victorian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. Health Promotion Journal of Australia 2001; 11(1):31-38.
McNair R, Brown R, Stone PN, Sims J. Rural Interporfessional Education (RIPE) - promoting teamwork in primary health care education and practice. Australian Journal of Rural Health 2001; 9(Suppl):S19-S26.
Dawson W, Brown S, Gunn J, McNair R, Lumley J. Sharing obstetric care: barriers to integrated systems of care. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2000; 24(4):401-406.
Liaw ST, Kennedy G, Keppell M, Marty J, McNair R. Uisng multimedia to assist students with communication skills and biopsychosocial integration: An evaluation. Australian Journal of Educational Technology 2000; 16(2):104-125.
McNair R. Lesbian Sexuality: Do GPs contribute to lesbian invisibility and ill health? Australian Family Physician 2000; 29(6):514-516.
Stone N, McNair R. The time is RIPE for community-based interprofessional education. In: Fitzpatrick L, Gregory G, editors. 7th National Rural Health Conference. Proceedings of the 7th National Rural Health Conference; 2003 Mar 1-3; Hobart. Canberra: National Rural Health Alliance; 2003.
Other publication (if applicable)
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