Record number of GPs in training to start in 2025 In a 20% jump from 2024, 1504 future GPs will kick off their training next year, reinforcing the need for investment to ensure this pipeline.
RACGP achieves financial surplus ahead of schedule Record membership of more than 50,000, and the college’s ‘full’ financial recovery, highlight this year’s annual report.
Preventable chronic diseases need ‘urgent’ intervention Alarming new research shows the socioeconomic health gap is widening, leaving GPs to navigate systems that ‘do not account for complexity’.
Medical Dean’s parting words of wisdom Professor Richard Murray has spent the last 20 years at the forefront of medical education, his advice is to ‘follow what has meaning’.
In Practice: RACGP Faculty Chairs announced The RACGP welcomes its new and continuing Faculty Chairs who will serve on the Board in 2024.
Firsthand farm experience for GPs in training The next generation of GPs have descended on Dubbo to see firsthand what hazards are faced by rural patients and how they are best cared for.
Medical students perfect rural rescue skills From buffalo attacks to childbirth, the NT’s future doctors were given a taste of rural medicine to conquer a ‘fear of the unknown’.
In Practice: AHPRA to detail registration restrictions The health regulator is hosting an information session on restrictions placed on the registration of practitioners, and how they work.
Key Feature Problem exam changes on the way From 2025.2, the RACGP exam will consist of 70 scenarios, each with a multiple selection question, with short-answer questions to be removed.
In Practice: Medication management at transitions of care GPs can help shape the framework to optimise the use of medicines at transitions of care and reduce risk of medication-related harm.