About Us
Introduction
Medcast strives to be the best provider of ongoing health professional education in Australia, known for our quality and innovation. We bring excellence into everything we do, combining the best educators and learning design methods with the latest evidence and technology.
We provide education direct to health professionals and services to organisations with the aim to improve the standard of healthcare across Australia.
Our health professional education includes:
- Online and face-to-face education for health professional continuing professional development in primary care and critical care.
- General Practice training courseware.
- Nurse and Nurse Practitioner courses.
- Vocational training for Aged Care.
Our services for organisations include:
- Learning design and development including audio-visual production.
- eLearning technology solutions.
- Education hosting, marketing and delivery.
- Education consulting services for organisations including training needs analysis.
- In-house course delivery.
- Staff certification via our Registered Training Organisation (RTO).
Working with clients across corporate, government, NGOs, Primary Health Networks, and training organisations, Medcast provides a full range of e-learning solutions and blended courses.
Our Team
The Medcast team is made up of experienced Medical Educators, Educational Technologists, Learning Designers, Project Managers, Marketing and IT experts. The team is constantly challenging themselves to create different ways to help health professionals learn and to solve business problems.
Justin Lewis
Business & Finance Director
Stephen Barnett
Medical Director
Luke Kean
Chief Technology Officer
Kate Clutton
Chief Operations Officer
Greg Teuss
Learning Coordinator
Terese Haberle
Events & Customer Service
James Landrigan
Learning Designer
Joshua Wood
Senior Full Stack Developer
Angelina Pisani
Admin & Office Assistant
Jo Bruce
Senior Medical Educator
Ken Hambrecht
Principal Consultant
Gary Fairweather
Business Manager
Crystal Smith
Senior Education Consultant
Danielle Grace
Senior Education Consultant
Abbey Rodgers
Learning Administrator
Kathryn Jennings
Digital Marketing Specialist
Our technology doesn't just make things easy, it provides insights into how to continuously improve education at scale.
Luke Kean
Chief Technology Officer
Other Team members
- Instructional designers & e-Learning developers
- Graphic Designers
- Copywriters & editors
- Medical educators
- Web developers
Our Vision
Our vision is to improve health care delivery nationally and internationally by providing high quality education and resources, using online and face-to-face collaborative technology solutions.
Contact UsHistory
Medcast was founded by Dr Stephen Barnett in 2013, building on his PhD in online communities, 20 years of clinical experience, and his involvement in graduate and postgraduate medical education, research and health informatics.
Medcast has a history of long-term working partnerships with key clients, such as the Black Dog Institute. In 2013, in partnership with the Black Dog Institute, Medcast established a Virtual Community of Practice for e-Mental Health. Medcast continues to support this project through the delivery of training to six thousand (6,000) health professionals over the last 5 years.
In March 2018 Medcast acquired Critical Care Education Services - a long-established medical training business. Critical Care Education Services (CCES) has been operating successfully for over 30 years providing a range of public and in-house training courses to nurses, doctors and allied health professionals.
In April 2018 Medcast entered into a joint venture with, NB Medical, a UK-based medical education group to offer their successful ‘Hot Topics GP Update’ training courses in Australia. Hot Topics is a one-day update course for GPs, accredited with the RACGP. NB Medical, is a leading UK provider of CPD for GPs, educating over 20,000 practitioners each year throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands.
In May 2019 Medcast established The Medcast Institute, to provide a comprehensive vocational education offering to Aged Care and community services. This Registered Training Organisation (RTO) is registered by ASQA to deliver Vocational Education and Training (VET) services that qualify for government funding. The RTO has a Smart & Skilled contract with the New South Wales Government.