RACGP election: Presidential candidate Dr Monirul Haque answers AusDoc’s big questions
RACGP members will vote for a new president this month and AusDoc has asked the five candidates to respond to our burning questions about the…
Tag: CPD
No backdating CPD to meet 2024 requirements, RACGP warns
Doctors will not be able to claim CPD activities completed early next year towards the current year’s requirements, the RACGP has confirmed. Last year was…
Another specialist college facing membership backlash over its $4000 annual fees
RANZCOG is facing a member backlash over its increasing fees amid wider struggles by the specialist colleges to make ends meet. Last month, some 200…
Medicine will soon be considered too important to be left to doctors
We practise not in a cocoon but in a melange (swamp?) of law, regulation and ethics. They are not separate entities but are intertwined like…
Ditching the RACGP for cheaper CPD homes is bad for general practice
It is that time of the year again, when all our professional expenses seem to be due at once. Medical indemnity insurance is always expensive,…
In defence of the new CPD — it’s not that bad!
“Mirror, mirror on the wall — who’s the best reflector of all?” Recent comments on various AusDoc articles about CPD show that we’ve all been…
I’ve been ‘self-reflecting’ on how I became a good doctor — the answer isn’t CPD
If formal education is a substitute for practical experience, I’ve been a slow learner. I am quite certain I did not learn to be a…
‘We accept some doctors are not happy with what we’ve done’: Dr Anne Tonkin
General practice is tough right now. Workforce shortages are biting, and many dedicated, experienced doctors are working longer and harder than they would like in…
Relax everyone, the draconian CPD regime is really a secret plot to protect doctors
Much has been written of late, and all of it negative, about the arduous, time-consuming, unproven and unprovable accreditation process being forced upon the medical…
What happens to Maria? Why you can’t measure GPs using CPD audits
Two weeks ago, AusDoc published its interview with the chair of the Medical Board of Australia, Dr Anne Tonkin, about the mass disquiet among doctors…
