Learning Medicare ‘on the job’ is putting GPs at medicolegal risk: Approved education is the solution
When it comes to Medicare compliance, the vast majority of doctors want to do the right thing, but sometimes the complexity of Medicare can make…
Category: Education
It’s time to stop the bandaid solutions and get serious about fixing general practice
The release of the RACGP’s Health of the Nation 2023 report this week has further generated essential discussions about the attraction and retention of the…
RACGP launches $1350 program to formally recognise GPs with special interests
GPs with special interests can pay $1350 to have their skills formally recognised by the RACGP. The college’s “extended skills certificate” will initially cover five…
Many junior doctors fear claiming all their overtime: AMA survey
Four out of 10 junior doctors do not submit claims for all their unrostered overtime hours for fear it will impact their future work prospects,…
GPs offered up $70k carrot to move interstate and go regional
The Queensland Government has promised cash incentives totalling up to $70,000 for interstate and overseas GPs who relocate to regional and remote communities. A recruitment…
Is scrapping high-stakes clinical exams for registrars undermining standards? The AMC responds
In response to Dr Andrew Amos’ opinion piece, ‘Scrapping high pressure clinical exams for trainees makes it dangerously easy to become a specialist’, the Australian Medical…
RACGP’s baffling move to erase human interaction from mentor relationships
Sometimes I feel like an alien. What type of world have I crashed into? By the start of the dreaded CPD year of 2023, I…
Med school places should be funded based on how many doctors go rural, govt told
The Federal Government should reward universities that address community needs and produce rural doctors with more funded medical student places, the AMA has told the…
‘Doctors fear losing what they love’: Dr Tasha Port’s suicide shows medicine’s culture of silence lingers
Dr Tasha Port was preparing to submit her application for the paediatrician training program when she took her own life in June 2020. Medicine had…
My idiotic vaccination bungle: When a doctor makes a breathtakingly stupid mistake
I have many faults, but when I use the last skerrick of toot paper, I put another roll on. Admittedly, this was not always the…
