RACGP reveals first exam pass rates of revamped KFP without short-answer questions
Some 80% of candidates passed the RACGP’s most recent Key Feature Problem exam in July — the first held after short-answer questions were removed. This…
Category: Education
Doctors call for action over medical student’s domestic violence assault
A final-year medical student who pleaded guilty to a domestic violence assault has been suspended by his university following an outcry from two hundred doctors,…
Medical Must-See: Leech lodges in farmer’s pharynx
A farmer had been coughing up blood for 15 days before his doctors pulled out a 7cm leech that had made itself at home in…
GPs savage plan to prioritise bulk-billing practices for registrar training
Dr Nick Yim.The Federal Government has shocked GPs with draft guidance that would require the GP colleges to prioritise bulk-billing practices for registrar training. The government…
40 pharmacists qualify as ‘doctors’ after new title applied to existing degrees
Forty graduate pharmacists can already call themselves ‘doctor’ despite not knowing they would receive the title when they started their degrees. Minister for Health and…
Fewer than 10% of final-year medical students want to be GPs as a first choice
Only 9.4% of final-year medical students have nominated general practice as their preferred specialty, down from 10.6% last year, with rural generalism falling too. Internal…
Pharmacists will become ‘doctors’ with a one-year online master’s degree — this is how
Pharmacists got the news last year that they would be able to call themselves ‘doctors’ after completing a new extended master’s degree. They are not…
General practice student club fights back against ‘infuriating’ negative perceptions of the specialty
Can university trivia nights fire up interest in general practice? Second-year medical students Keerthana Lingutla and Natalie McDowell hope so. The co-chairs of the University…
New medical school will ‘strengthen Medicare’, says Mark Butler
The Federal Government has announced a new GP-focused medical school, to offer 48 places a year starting in 2027. The government said on Monday that…
We need an independent audit of fellowship exams to see if they’re fit for purpose
“Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are the stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway…
