A crying baby was the perfect soundtrack for my online CPD course on human errors
I attended an online CPD interactive workshop to earn a discount on my medical insurance fees. All the attendees had to shift between an online…
Tag: Medical education
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…
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…
What if Humphrey Bogart played it again as an Aussie GP?
It was a WONCA presentation unlike any other, punctuated by laughs, applause, and even a call for an encore, with not a PowerPoint slide in…
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…
Scrapping high pressure clinical exams for trainees makes it dangerously easy to become a specialist
Pressure from the Australian Medical Council for medical colleges to eliminate high-stakes exams for trainees puts doctors and patients at risk. I write this because the Royal…
