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Research within General Medicine

Monash Health General Medicine values a culture that promotes clinical curiosity. Curiosity drives research and innovation, both of which enhance the care of our patients and our community.

The recently established Monash Health General Medicine Research Group will provide leadership and a clear research strategy across all sites. This strategy will focus on making research a core feature of what we do in General Medicine. It will prioritise collaboration and aim to provide our staff with the environment and resources required for research success.

Some key research themes that we believe are crucial to shaping the future of General Medicine have been established and include:

  1. Point-of-care ultrasound
  2. Health services research
  3. Heart failure
  4. Peri-operative medicine

Dissemination of research either by conference presentation or journal publication is encouraged and will be celebrated.

Below are some key highlights from our recent research activities, along with a link to our repository.

  • Aung AK, Gounder R, Paul E, Pourhadi H, Rane V, Herb H, Ramasokola O, Lau D, Serebryanski R, Lester G, Coates R, Gibbs HH, Luc M, O’Donnabhain R, Zhang K, Zhao R, Potter EL, Mccurdy C, Aung YH, Johnson DF, Sansom J, Muthusamy A, Whittingham R, Ritchie E, Osborne A. What do general medicine perioperative services do? A Victorian multicentre cross-sectional study. Intern Med J. 2025 Oct 31. doi: 10.1111/imj.70243
  • Cid-Serra X, Gibbs H, Szecket N, Comeau D, Elliott P, Duong V, Perera P, Thorson P, O’Donovan R, Maguire G, Hean RV, Potter E. Defining the scope of point-of-care ultrasound in internal medicine: a consensus statement by the point-of-care special interest group of the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand. Intern Med J. 2025 Oct;55(10):1677-1686. doi: 10.1111/imj.70127
  • Jackson A, Pazhang R, Gualano RC, Psihogios H, Rosler R, Bhaskaran S. The impact of geriatricians in the emergency department: A prospective observational study. Australas J Ageing. 2025;44(1). doi:10.1111/ajag.13405
  • Junckerstorff R, Baqar S. Leadership Pearls in Healthcare. Singapore: Springer Nature; 2025. doi:10.1007/978-981-96-4233-5
  • Lim AKH. Predicting acute kidney injury in acute rhabdomyolysis. J Clin Med. 2025;14(19):6892. doi:10.3390/jcm14196892
  • Lim AKH. Optimising goals of care research in general medicine: A multifaceted problem. Int J Qual Health Care. 2025;37(3):mzaf089. doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzaf089
  • Lim AKH, Kerr PG. Creatinine-based definition of kidney disease in the Charlson Comorbidity Index may underestimate prognosis in males compared to an estimated glomerular filtration rate definition. J Clin Med. 2024;13(4):1007. doi:10.3390/jcm13041007
  • Lim AKH, Kerr PG. The impact of obesity on body surface area-adjusted estimated glomerular filtration rate in patients with chronic kidney disease. Intern Med J. 2024;54(10):1669–77. doi:10.1111/imj.16477
  • Potter E, Joy S, Lock P, Richards H, Rogers B. Enhancing utilisation of Hospital in the Home for intravenous diuretic therapy: a retrospective study of barriers and estimated bed substitution in general medicine inpatients with decompensated heart failure. Intern Med J. 2025 Mar;55(3):407-414. doi: 10.1111/imj.16655
  • Robson C, Khan H, Junckerstorff RK, Graham M, Stuart RL, Nicholls SJ, Rogers BA. The relationship between blood culture time-to-positivity and Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis. Pathology. 2025 Dec;57(7):932-935. doi: 10.1016/j.pathol.2025.04.002
  • Russell P, Potter E, Heruc G, Anderson J. Urgent call to action: mobilising physicians and the medical workforce to address treatment of medical instability from eating disorders. Intern Med J. 2025 Sep;55(9):1423-1426. doi: 10.1111/imj.70189
  • Snedden SJ, Thein P, Chee WJ, Ong J, Junckerstorff R. Are our patients becoming more complex? Trends in comorbidity and functional dependence in General Medicine 2011–2019. Intern Med J. 2024;54(11):1849–55. doi:10.1111/imj.16505
  • Ye S, Hean RV, Chen M, Potter E, Scott I, Aung AK. Enablers and barriers to conducting research in general medicine advanced training. Intern Med J. 2024;54(9):1447-1454. doi:10.1111/imj.70143
  • Zhai J, Mooney C, Hamilton O, Vesty G, Millar R, Runacres F, Dellit M, de Courten B. Embedding a Palliative Care Nurse Consultant Within a General Medicine Ward: A Prospective Exploratory Study. J Clin Nurs. 2025 Sep 1. doi: 10.1111/jocn.70088

See the full list of publications by the General Medicine team

Monash Health research repository