New project aims to make it easier for GPs to screen for alcohol harms When does alcohol use become an issue? This new project wants to make it easier for GPs to find out.
Compass: Pointing towards elimination of cervical cancer Dr Lara Roeske talks to newsGP about a large-scale trial to assess the new screening program and help make it even more effective.
Professor Anthony Radford: A passion for general practice Professor Radford reflects on an almost 60-year career which has taken him throughout Australia and all around the world.
‘The future of general practice’: Practice-based research networks Michelle Guppy conducts research with ‘questions relevant to GPs, being generated by GPs, and investigated on general practice patients’.
Boosting cultural respect in mainstream health services Researchers have designed an intervention to help make mainstream general practice more accessible to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
Using GP feedback to better support refugee health An academic post and roles as a medical educator gave general practice registrar Dr Timothy Wittick the opportunity to publish his research.
Talking sexual health with older patients Dr Sue Malta and her research team want to promote more positive social perceptions of older people’s sexuality, in general practice and beyond.
After years in the doldrums, primary care research is on the national agenda Academic GPs have welcomed the new focus on primary care research in the Medical Research Future Fund’s priority list.
Finding your tribe as a GP and academic How one GP found her way to academic research – and why she loves it.
From general practice registrar to Clinical Dean: A career reflection Associate Professor Justin Tse reflects on how his academic post helped pave the way for a fulfilling career in medicine and academia.