This article reviews nutritional considerations in patients who drink at risky levels or have alcohol dependence. It aims to enhance GPs’ awareness of nutritional considerations in this patient group.

GPs can provide factual information about the risks and benefits of treatment in order to assist this process, but are advised to avoid taking sides.

Responding to the pandemic, ACCHOs in many locations increased the number and type of services they were delivering via telehealth, particularly for general practice–related services.

It is estimated that 600,000 Australians currently self-medicate with cannabis, with chronic pain a leading indication for such use.

It is important for medical students to learn how to conduct sound medical research by implementing their own research projects.

This model of care recommends a systemic, coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to survivorship, using pathways of care that support wellness, disease prevention and cancer surveillance.

This research identifies current tensions within Australian general practice training and potential solutions to these tensions.

Acne is seen by registrars at a rate similar to that of their established general practitioner colleagues, but with modest continuity of care in its management.

Gender difference exists in general practice trainees’ frequency of performing procedures related to women’s reproductive health.

The past 15 years have witnessed an escalating interest in the role of the general practitioner with special interest in Australia and other countries.

General practitioners are well positioned to take a comprehensive approach to the management of functional decline in older people, aided by a range of funded programs.

Skin cancer follow-up is most effective when general practitioners establish follow-up strategies suited to the rural populations and supported by evidence-based guidelines for skins cancers.

Risk-taking behaviours in adolescents are rarely detected in clinical practice without deliberate assessment within a youth-friendly framework.

Medicinal cannabis is generally well tolerated, but the science related to its potential adverse effects is in its infancy.

A woman aged 42 years presented with left-sided facial pain of three weeks’ duration.