Medical board’s IMG fast track brings in 42 GPs in first three months
The Medical Board of Australia has approved 42 GPs, eight anaesthetists and three psychiatrists under its new IMG fast track that cuts out medical college…
The Medical Board of Australia has approved 42 GPs, eight anaesthetists and three psychiatrists under its new IMG fast track that cuts out medical college…
There is increasing evidence that antidepressant withdrawal symptoms (or ‘discontinuation’ symptoms) are common and can be severe and long-lasting. Yet in the past, these symptoms…
NSW is home for psychiatry registrar Dr Nithya Reddy. It is where she grew up, undertook all of her medical training so far and became…
There is a term in medicine that has always made me feel uncomfortable. It gets used less now, but you still hear it: heartsink —…
Psychiatrists want to join GPs with Medicare items that pay 100% of the schedule fee rather than 85% for outpatients or 75% for inpatients. The Royal Australian…
The NSW Minister for Mental Health has defied calls to quit over a $750 taxpayer-funded trip to a winery for her birthday lunch. Rose Jackson,…
Doctor and pharmacy groups have suggested banning medicinal cannabis companies from simultaneously owning clinics and dispensaries, saying doctors’ independence is at stake. AMA Queensland and…
After six years of psychiatry training, registrar Dr Lauren Amor was ready to qualify and take her place as a NSW junior psychiatrist. She would…
Watching from afar, the new US regime’s changes to the management of healthcare, superimposed on an already dysfunctional system, elicit a sense of foreboding. The…
The NSW Minister for Mental Health, already under fire over the mass resignation of psychiatrists from the state’s collapsing mental health system, is facing fresh…
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