Connection key to retaining rural GPs: Study Creating a supportive environment, both personally and professionally, is crucial to making GPs feel at home in the bush, ANU researchers say.
‘Huge hive of clever minds’ driving GP training Tasmanian medical educators discuss collaboration and supporting registrars since the transition to college-led training.
New $30.5m Pre-Fellowship Program pilot launches The trial will help IMGs spend two years in a regional practice, with the aim of developing the skills needed to embark on a GP Fellowship pathway.
The medical educators ensuring equal opportunities for IMGs The Fellowship Support Program has ‘grown enormously’ in the past year, and could expand further should it receive Government support.
In Practice: Bulk-billing incentives module update Services Australia has updated its bulk-billing educational module to include the tripled incentive items.
Raising the prestige of general practice: A student’s perspective The culture that exists within medical student placements needs to shift if the GP workforce is to improve, writes hospital intern, Dr Phoebe Blaxill.
How health system ‘designed by men, for men’ is failing women From pay disparity, to bias, and claims of hysteria, this International Women’s Day has given pause to reflect on the gender inequality in Australian healthcare.
IWD: Striving for a system ‘where all people have access’ Derbarl Yerrigan’s Medical Director has shared her story ahead of RACGP WA’s International Women’s Day event.
IWD: Overcoming barriers for future generations The NT’s first Aboriginal pharmacist is now a GP, single mum, and leading advocate for gender equality in the medical profession.
IWD – ‘You can succeed based on your own terms’ RACGP leaders, past and present, will speak about the need for change as part of the college’s International Women’s Day Victoria event.