The paper provides key strategies guiding practices to optimise implementing social work student placements.

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

Better defining, integrating and supporting general practitioner roles in disaster systems is likely to improve disaster healthcare.

While general practitioners have concerns about the use of data stored on electronic health records, they also recognise the benefits of using this data for research purposes.

Health coaching is an integral part of lifestyle medicine that can be used to facilitate behaviour change in key lifestyle areas.

Complex spinal pain interdisciplinary assessment in a primary care setting shows reasonable long-term outcomes comparable to more intensive interventions.

Promoting insulin as a normal part of the diabetes continuum and a beneficial change for long-term health will further improve patients’ experience during the commencement of insulin.

Despite the availability of effective therapies and a national medicines subsidy scheme, a significant burden of disease still exists in Australia, with high mortality by international standards.

Nocturia is associated with significant morbidity and is likely to be a marker of poor health.

Street-based general practice services are critical to facilitate easy access to primary and secondary management of chronic multimorbid conditions in marginalised patients.

This study shows the importance of sharing and learning from policy differences.

Medical abortion is a more accessible and less invasive option than surgical termination and can be provided in primary care settings.

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.

Despite international consensus regarding the judicious use of diagnostic spinal imaging, patients continue to be over-referred.