1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: But we know that more than two thousand students from 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: ten health disciplines are set to filter into Charles Dalen 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: University's newly completed thirty point eight million dollar Center. 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: For Better Health Futures throughout this year. 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: Now, with the recent inclusion of CDU mensi's medical program, 6 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: that the building opening means that Charlesdown University is going 7 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: to be equipped to train almost every type of health 8 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: practitioner needed for the territory. And joining us on the 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: show is CDU's pro Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Health, 10 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: Professor Dominique Upton. 11 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: Good morning to your professor. 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 3: Good morning, Katie, how are you really well? 13 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time. 14 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: Now, you and I have spoken before about the facility 15 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: and you know how wonderful it will be for students 16 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 1: to be able to flow through there. Today's like the 17 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: official opening, isn't it. 18 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. I mean the building was completed 19 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 3: last year. We started moving folk in over the sort 20 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 3: of Christmas period and today marks the official opening. So 21 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 3: everybody's in. We're starting to get ready for the start 22 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 3: of term and all the students are joining us in 23 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 3: the next couple of weeks and so how. 24 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: Are those numbers looking for the start of turn and 25 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: a term I should say, and you know, how are 26 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: you feeling now that the building's complete and totally ready 27 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: to go. 28 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 3: Look, I always get sort of a little bit anxious 29 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 3: at this time of year when the new students started, 30 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 3: or perhaps I'm excited as a better word. You know, 31 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 3: we know the students will be on campus. The numbers 32 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 3: are looking really really positive. So the anxieties and just 33 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 3: how we're going to manage all of that influx of 34 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 3: new students, particularly territory and students are going to this 35 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 3: new facility. But numbers are looking great, particularly in the 36 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 3: health field, and so we're all systems go. 37 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: And how are the numbers looking in terms of locals 38 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: territorians coming to study? 39 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, brilliant. I mean we've got a couple of courses 40 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 3: that you can just do on campus, and we've got 41 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 3: others that you can do from across the whole of Australia. 42 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 3: Those up high levels of territory and recruitment as you'd 43 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 3: expect to those on campus. So physio pharmacy or health medicine, 44 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 3: you know, these are all for territorians and that they 45 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 3: can come on to campus and do those studies now. 46 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 1: With the facilities like the simulated emergency department and hospital ward, 47 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: how important do you think it's going to be for 48 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: students to be able to get that sort of hands 49 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: on real world training, you know, and also in terms 50 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: of that training on the Northern territories unique sort of 51 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: situations and challenges. 52 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so it's essential, It really is essential. So 53 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 3: we want to make sure that the students when they 54 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 3: go out on placements into the real world as it were, 55 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 3: but they know what they're doing, that they're confident in 56 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 3: knowing what they're doing, they don't harm anybody or themselves, 57 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 3: and so they can go out with confidence because they've 58 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 3: been fully trained, they've had access to all the facilities 59 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 3: that you get in a clinical environment, whether they have 60 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 3: being you know out rule and remote or within Darwin 61 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 3: or anas. They'll have all of that experience in all 62 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 3: of those schools ready to go when when they're ready 63 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 3: to leave us for their placement opportunities. And of course 64 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 3: we have set up the facility so it's specifically for territory. 65 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 3: So we've got a dealing as I said before, you know, 66 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 3: dealing with the Darwin with Alice Springs, with Catherine Tennant 67 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 3: and you know it's a brud and remote we've been 68 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 3: nullen boy of further Afield. 69 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: And do you think that you know that the impact 70 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: that you're with this new facility, that you're going to 71 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: be able to sort of attract and retain more health 72 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: students and ultimately sort of health professionals to the Northern territory. 73 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 3: Well, that's the idea. I mean, as we've spoken before, 74 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 3: it's about growing around making sure that territory students or 75 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 3: you know, school leaders or those that want to return 76 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,839 Speaker 3: to study are somewhere with world class facilities, Cotton edge facilities, 77 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 3: so they can study in the territory and then remain 78 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 3: here because they know that we're going places now. 79 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: Professor dominic Upton, I know that the situation with the 80 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: tape is certainly not your responsibilit you know, it's it's 81 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: been a stuff up to put it lightly, but it 82 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: does impact the reputation of the whole institution and for 83 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: you opening, you know, a new health facility, what assurances 84 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: really can you give to your students parents every territory 85 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: and that you know that things are up to scratch 86 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: and that the qualifications everything are up to scratch through 87 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: Charles Dalwin University. 88 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, look, you're right, I mean cases in my field 89 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 3: and certainly outside of my own sphere of expertise, so 90 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 3: I can't come into that. But in terms of the 91 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 3: you know, all of our health courses are accredited by 92 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 3: professional bodies. So you know, for example that later on 93 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 3: this morning, I've got to meetings with the Articians Australia, 94 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,679 Speaker 3: so they're come to accredit to our new artetics course, 95 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 3: and the AMC have accredited fully accredited our medical program. 96 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 3: So these are professional bodies coming in look at all 97 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 3: of our courses, looking at our teachers and just reassuring them. 98 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 3: And I can say that we've got our I think 99 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 3: you said twelve things, we've now got eighteen disciplines. Eighteen 100 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 3: is those disciplines that are or is credited by professional bodies, 101 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,799 Speaker 3: so external body is given us for the stamp of approval. 102 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: So really you are confident that everything that's going on 103 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: through your you know, through your faculty, that people can 104 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: be rest assured that it is absolutely you know, they're 105 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: going to get the qualifications that they that they study. 106 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. You know, we don't 107 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 3: admit students until we've got to tick in the box 108 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 3: from the creditation committee to commence, you know, and that's 109 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 3: always been a man. Sure we can't enroll students with our. 110 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: That TIC well, Professor Dominic Upton, the pro Vice Chancellor 111 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: for the Faculty of Health, really appreciate your time this morning, 112 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: and I bet you're glad, you know, to open those 113 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: doors officially. 114 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 3: The I am, I am, I am. It's been a 115 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 3: long a long time coming, but it's great to see 116 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 3: that's really good. 117 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 2: Good stuff. Thank you so much for your time this morning. 118 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 3: Really appreciate it right, thank you now.