You can now join a CPD home for just $299 — should the RACGP be worried?
The first question when the Medical Board of Australia announced its CPD home revolution was whether it meant GPs could abandon their colleges en masse.…
Tag: Medical education
Aussie GP treated as an IMG reveals her battle with the college to work in her own country
As an Australian medical graduate, Dr Corinne Glenn says she was staggered by the IMG bureaucracy she was forced through to work as a specialist…
My real-world UCAT questions for students wanting to get into medical school
I have a 15-year-old who is a beautiful kid. Funny, hard working, empathic and always challenging, he has proudly announced his intentions to get into…
KFP and AKT will stay paper based ‘for the foreseeable future’
The RACGP is sticking with pens and paper for two of its fellowship exams, the Key Feature Problem and Applied Knowledge Test, having decided computer-based…
Fund new MBS item for contraceptive counselling, says Senate inquiry
A new Medicare item for contraceptive counselling and better funding for GPs to insert and remove IUDs are among the key recommendations from a federal…
UK health system crisis? School leavers to train as doctors without going to medical school
It has been marketed as an ‘earn while you learn’ plan dreamt up by a government desperate to fix its medical workforce crisis. The idea?…
Australian Prescriber saved after new publisher signs $4.9m contract
Health officials have entrusted Therapeutic Guidelines with the Australian Prescriber journal following the closure of former publisher NPS MedicineWise. The Federal Government axed $25 million…
Is this really self-reflection? The CPD course that left me seething
I am becoming generally pissed off with the ‘reflection’ component of some of the courses designed to accommodate the newfangled, medical board-inspired accreditation process. In…
Can RANZCOG fix the gender problem in obstetrics and gynaecology?
It is ironic that Dr Gillian Gibson is only the second woman elected RANZCOG president, yet a key issue she will tackle is a lack of male doctors in…
No Galileo: Student kicked off clinical placement because of her medical views loses legal case
A supreme court ruling which likened the plight of a student who was kicked off her clinical placement to that of Galileo under the inquisition…
