General practice student club fights back against ‘infuriating’ negative perceptions of the specialty
Natalie McDowell and Keerthana Lingutla want their GP club to prove the specialty is exciting to younger people.
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 of Notre Dame Australia’s General Practice Student Network (GPSN) club in Sydney are fighting the ‘hidden curriculum’ in universities that disparages general practice.
“Across two years, we only had three or four days of individual GP placements, where we were just shadowing a GP,” Ms Lingutla says.
