Timeline of Key Events

In August, the Goodfellow Unit created a YouTube channel which features recorded presentations at Symposiums, webinars, and Medtalks.

The Goodfellow Unit launched the first webinar titled, ‘Red Rash Made Easy’.  

Dr Bruce Arroll (pictured right, beside Dr Bruce Goodfellow) becomes the Director of Goodfellow Unit.

In September, the Goodfellow Unit launched its new website: Goodfellow Learning. Staff transferred the Goodfellow Club to the new site and launched the first learning modules on sleep disorders and children’s food allergies.

For the first time, members of the Accident and Medical Practitioners Association joined GPs, nurses and pharmacists at the Goodfellow Symposium at the Langham Hotel in Auckland.

ACC commissioned the Goodfellow Unit to conduct a trial of web-based case studies and formative quizzes for GPs. In October, the Goodfellow Unit launched the first of five ACC case studies and quizzes for GPs on the Goodfellow Club website. GPs received one CME point per hour and a certificate

The Goodfellow Unit celebrated its 30th anniversary.

The Goodfellow Unit established the GFU-Mercy Hospice Auckland Visiting Speaker Programme, which was a collaborative effort between the Goodfellow Unit, the School of Nursing, and Mercy Hospice in Auckland. This programme brought six international experts to New Zealand, specialising in palliative care, spirituality, and loss and grief.

From January 12-14, Professor Peter Harris from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales conducted a review of the Goodfellow Unit. Among the recommendations, Harris advised the Unit to enhance collaboration with the Schools of Nursing and Pharmacy.

The Goodfellow Unit gained a contract on opioid training to be led by Dr Annette Gohns.

Dr Phil Barham, the inaugural Director of the Goodfellow Unit, retired. In April, Associate Professor Ross McCormick was appointed as Acting Director of the Goodfellow Unit. He became the Goodfellow Chair and Director in 1999.

The Goodfellow Unit won a funding bid from the Regional Health Authorities to run the Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs brief intervention training project.

In February, Dr Bruce Goodfellow joined the board of the Goodfellow Foundation as both an individual member and occasionally as a representative for his father, Douglas Goodfellow. Bruce pictured with Selena Armstrong, the general manager of the Goodfellow Unit from 2014-17.

In February, The University of Auckland Vice Chancellor Colin Maiden accepted formal proposals to incorporate specific recognition of the Goodfellow Unit as an entity within the Department of General Practice.

In November, the Postgraduate Medical Committee moved to establish a Postgraduate Society Goodfellow Trust ‘for the permanent support of the Goodfellow Unit for Continuing Medical Education in General Practice in the School of Medicine’. The Committee hoped to assist the Goodfellow Unit to become self-sufficient by 1993.

In December, the Goodfellow Unit was transferred from the Division of Postgraduate Affairs in the School of Medicine to the newly formed Department of General Practice.

Research Assistant Mary Hepple established the Journal Review Service.

Dr Barham established the New Zealand Educational Resource, which enabled GPs to borrow videos, audio cassettes, and books from the Philson Library at the University of Auckland via mail delivery. In 1982, the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners made a successful grant application to the New Zealand Medical

In January, the University Council started to advertise the position of the Sir William Goodfellow Director of Continuing Medical Education in General Practice.