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Doctors’ health and wellbeing – making this key topic a priority for the benefit of all.
Professional
This article argues for why GPs need to engage in self‑care and outlines a new self-care package being offered by the RACGP.
This article seeks to highlight how certain aspects of medical culture are hazardous to doctors’ health, and offer guidance for how GPs can support cultural reform.
This paper provides an understanding of the transition process and explores specific contributing factors, including uncertainty.
Research
Research examining medical trainee burnout has typically not focused within specialties. The present study therefore explored perspectives and experiences of registrar burnout.
Clinical challenge
These questions are based on the Focus articles in this issue.
Editorial
Here at the AJGP, we are publishing multiple papers that explore and deal with this profoundly important topic, here in this theme issue and also as an ongoing series.
Health of the Nation has been a great contribution for advocacy and leadership for the profession. It also highlights the importance of health and wellbeing for both patients and colleagues.
Whether or not we have patients requesting VAD at the end of life, the GP role remains the same: to listen, to support, to maintain trust and to assist in making the end of life the best it can be.
Letters
Readers express their opinions on published articles and topics of interest.
Clinical
This article outlines GPs’ legal and professional requirements for engaging in first conversations about VAD with patients.
This narrative review will discuss the role of JAK/signal transducers and activators of transcription signalling in atopic dermatitis and other inflammatory skin conditions.
The aim of this paper is to provide a contemporary approach to the management of patients with hypertriglyceridaemia in Australian primary care.
Case study
A first-time case presentation of sudden onset pruritic skin eruption after starting allopurinol 10 days prior for nephrolithiasis.
A case presentation of a four-week history of worsening horizontal diplopia and band-like occipital and frontal headaches, worse in the morning. There were no other neurological symptoms.
A case presentation of concerns related to a nine-month history of gradual onset male pattern hair loss, with bitemporal ‘M’-shaped recession and thinning over the crown.
This paper aims to explore in detail two registrars’ stories using the lenses of transformative learning theory and threshold concept theory to seek fresh insights into becoming a GP.
The aim of this paper is to improve the skill set of GPs to enable them to manage low-risk fractures in the primary care setting.
Viewpoint
A response to feedback about the article ‘When less is more: Updates in active surveillance and watchful waiting in the management of prostate cancer’, published in the AJGP May 2024 issue.