QUT - Academic profiles - Dr Peter Horrocks

Reseach Interests:

Health Disaster Management Education

Clinical Education

Prehospital Care

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p.horrocks@qut.edu.au

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Personal details

Positions

Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Health,
School of Clinical Sciences

Research field

Clinical sciences

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020

Qualifications

Master of Health Science (Emergency and Disaster Management) (Queensland University of Technology)
BNurs (Queensland University of Technology)

Experience

Peter Horrocks is a Senior Lecturer and has many years of experience in paramedicine. He has undertaken various roles at QUT including, Course Coordinator Paramedic Science and Head of Program for Paramedic Science. Peter has over 30 years’ practice as a Critical Care Paramedic, Special Operations Paramedic, Flight Paramedic, Senior Ambulance Educator, and also as a Registered Nurse. Peter has extensive experience educating students in paramedic practice across a range of programs. These include Tertiary, RTO Diploma and private programs. In addition to paramedic students, Peter has designed and delivered advanced skills programs for special operations police officers and significantly was for over 10 years a Medical Educator for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners delivering their Clinical Emergency Management Program which was designed to train GP’s in paramedic skills and practice.

Publications

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2019

Devenish, S., McKay, G., Long, D., Horrocks, P. & Smith, M. (2019). Paramedic students working in snow resort medical clinics: A non-traditional interprofessional clinical placement model. Irish Journal of Paramedicine, 4(1), 1–11. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/126808
Horrocks, P., Hobbs, L., Tippett, V. & Aitken, P. (2019). Paramedic Disaster Health Management Competencies: A Scoping Review. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 34(3), 322–329. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129831
Horrocks, P. D., Tippett, V. & Aitken, P. (2019). An Evaluation of the Self-Reported Knowledge Base of Disaster Management Core Competencies of Australian Paramedics.

2018

Horrocks, P. (2018). Medical and surgical emergencies. In Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (Ed.), Australian Pharmaceutical Formulary and Handbook: The everyday guide to pharmacy practice (24th Edition), (pp. 650–655). Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/117626

2017

Tippett, V. & Horrocks, P. (2017). Education, training and research. In Aitken, P., Tarrant, M., FitzGerald, G. & Fredriksen, M. (Eds.), Disaster health management: A primer for students and practitioners, (pp. 320–331). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/98945
Horrocks, P., Hobbs, L., Tippett, V. & Aitken, P. (2017). Paramedic disaster health management competencies: A scoping review (Conference Abstract). Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 32(S1), S99-S99. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/106886

2015

Horrocks, P., Tippett, V. & Aitken, P. (2015). Emergency prehospital disaster response training: What's the state of play? [Conference Abstract]. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 30(S1), s37-s37. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83789

2014

Lim, D., Bartlett, S., Horrocks, P., Grant-Wakefield, C., Kelly, J. & Tippett, V. (2014). Enhancing paramedics procedural skills using a cadaveric model. BMC Medical Education, Article 138, 14, 1–8. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/73562
Bartlett, S., Horrocks, P., Lim, D. & Kelly, J. (2014). Fresh frozen cadavers as a tool to educate student paramedics in procedural skills [Conference Abstract]. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 11(1), 9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/62606
Nissen, L., Bennett, P. J., Lim, D., Osborne, S., Tippett, V., Reed, L., Chan, V., Carkeet, A. & Horrocks, P. (2014). Teaching and assessment of prescribing medicines: A multidisciplinary review. 64.

A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/p.horrocks

Dr Peter Horrocks

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