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Country GPs win lifetime achievement awards
Dr Kevin Stanton and Dr Raphael Torome were honoured at the recent Rural Doctors’ Association of South Australia conference.
Dr Kevin Stanton (left) and Dr Raphael Torome received their awards from Dr Dianne Carr.
Two South Australian GPs have been handed lifetime achievement awards for their ‘outstanding’ contribution to the health of their rural communities.
Dr Kevin Stanton and Dr Raphael Torome received the honour at the Rural Doctors’ Association of South Australia (RDASA) conference held in the coastal town of Victor Harbor, on Ramindjeri and Ngarrindjeri Country last month.
Both GPs have been working in country South Australia for decades.
Dr Dianne Carr, Vice President of RDASA, and the RACGP’s SA Rural Faculty representative, presented the awards.
She described the GPs’ lifetime achievement awards as ‘incredibly well deserved’ and paid tribute to the ‘outstanding service’ they have carried out.
Having begun his work and training in Kenya, Somalia and South Africa, Dr Torome migrated to Australia in 2001 and is now the senior GP partner at Barmera Medical Clinic. He has worked in the small town in the Riverland region on the Murray River for more than 20 years.
Described as ‘a great mentor to the many who have worked with him’, Dr Torome is a supervisor with the RACGP and recipient of the National RACGP Supervisor of the Year award in 2019.
A graduate of the University of Adelaide in 1980, Dr Stanton spent four years working in general practice in the South Australian capital before moving to Berri, also in the Riverland region, in 1988 with his wife.
He maintains an active role in supervising and educating medical students and registrars. He works at Berri Medical Clinic, which was awarded the state’s RACGP General Practice of the Year award in 2022.
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