My unwanted detour to the ED took me back to the 1980s
I recently had the illuminating experience of being a hospital patient. I’d been postponing surgery for a long-term umbilical hernia — until one day, complications…
Tag: Medical education
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…
Meet the 17 GPs honoured on the King’s Birthday — part one
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”.…
Meet the 17 GPs honoured on the King’s Birthday — part two
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…
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…
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…
I’ve mentored many ‘top doctors’ who struggled with exams: I agree we need other fellowship pathways
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…
Medical college reveals the blunder leading to 220 registrars being told they passed an exam they actually failed
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…
Fellowship exams are rubbish — all they do is push brilliant doctors away from medicine
“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…
