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…
One of the 17 GPs recognised in the King’s Birthday honours this year, Dr David Rimmer, told AusDoc his motivation in medicine was “right work”.…
This is the second part of our 2025 King’s Birthday coverage. Read part one here. Dr Margaret Niemann OAM had 12 years of experience as…
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…
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…
“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…
Dr Pam Rachootin recently argued that general practice is losing many talented doctors because of the inflexibility of the assessment measures used to work out…
The cause of the “catastrophic” blunder that led to hundreds of UK registrars being wrongly told they had passed an exam they sat 18 months…
“In examinations, the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.” — Oscar Wilde I don’t believe we need exams. I was “grandfathered” into vocational…
Almost 20% of registrars who sat a September 2023 exam were given the wrong results — mostly passes when they should have failed — after…
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