The importance of social connection dominated and underpinned many other themes identified as central to achieving safe and effective vocational general practitioner education.
Direct observation is a teaching and assessment method in general practice training, providing important and timely feedback to registrars on their clinical and consultation skills.
There is growing evidence regarding the effectiveness of registrar training through video cameras, which has relevance for quality supervision during times of crises.
General practitioners, educators and students continue to successfully adapt to uncertainty and new challenges, be they clinical, contextual or COVID-19-related.
The learning process is understood to be not only the transfer of knowledge and skills, but also a complex developmental activity that is context dependent.
While the pandemic has profoundly affected medical services and education, general practitioners are uniquely placed to observe, to think and to respond.
Cancer survivors experience a range of unique biopsychosocial issues, requiring significant and coordinated care to optimise their quality of life.
The use of medical cannabis is an area of great interest for both general practitioners and patients and is an area of extensive ongoing research and legislative evolution.
Existing statutes and bodies of case law may be sufficiently flexible to accommodate new technologies along with the appropriate safeguards, operating procedures and consent forms.
A simulation module was designed to provide a safe training environment for medical staff to comprehensively practise their skills when managing COVID-19.
The use of high-risk checklists by supervisors varies widely, and training practices are not routinely monitored to ensure registrars are appropriately supervised for high-risk encounters.
Over the past 10 years significant improvements in technology underlying ophthalmic diagnosis and treatment have led to marked improvements in visual outcomes for patients.
The increasing adoption of augmented reality solutions on smart devices, pushed by major industry players, has resulted in promising implications for the enhancement of printed media.
This paper explores the main issues associated with the use of primary care data for research and proposed solutions to address them.