And just like that, another year is winding down. Once again, we’ve come to the Month of Reflecting. It’s always good to look back at lessons learned, goals achieved and milestones reached. It’s useful to review accomplishments, triumphs, successes as well as failures to identify where to focus energy over the next 12 months. We’ve...
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Uncertainty in general practice is unavoidable. We deal with uncertainty in more than half of our consults. Coping with the uncertainty is an essential skill for GPs. This month we again listen in on a webinar about Dealing with Diagnostic Uncertainty with Marlene Pearce, a GP based on the Sunshine Coast, QLD. This is the...
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We were fortunate enough to have Art Nahill and Nik Szecket from IMReasoning join us for our inaugural RVTS Grand Round Webinar for a STC case discussion. One of our medical educators, Dr Lorri Hopkins, provided the case, and Art and Nic demonstrated their clinical reasoning every step of the way. Watch the webinar recording...
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We deal with uncertainty every day in general practice. This month, we review 5 cases illustrating various reasons or things that may be contributing to uncertainty in general practice. This is part 2 of a 3 part series, where we listen in on a webinar with Marlene Pearce, a GP based on the Sunshine Coast,...
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We deal with uncertainty every day in general practice. Depending on where you work and how long you’ve worked there, most of the workload in general practice in Australia is managing chronic disease. For the remaining patients who present with new symptoms, diagnostic uncertainty abounds. Many patients who attend general practice do not have an...
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This month we share another webinar excerpt on Oral Health – the focus today is on oral soft tissue lesions. This is the third part of a 3 part series with Dr Ioan Jones, senior clinician and clinical educator with the Oral Health Services in Tasmania. Ioan is passionate about educating general practitioners about oral...
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Happy New Year! It’s that time of the year when we reflect on the last 12 months, and plan for the next 365 days. It’s always a good time to press the pause button and see where we’ve been and where we’re heading: re-evaluate, re-align and re-set some goals. At RVTS we can look...
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If you search the internet for “Australia’s most dangerous job”, you will find agriculture, forestry and fishing listed as the most dangerous industries in the country. Many RVTS registrars work in just these sorts of communities, and they need to be prepared for any eventuality. This is why all remote RVTS registrars attend a “Farm...
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This month we share another webinar excerpt on Oral Health – this time on Dental Trauma. This is Part 2 of a 3 part series with Dr Ioan Jones, senior clinician and clinical educator with the Oral Health Services in Tasmania. Ioan is passionate about educating general practitioners about Oral Disease, as he fully appreciates...
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The first week in August is Dental Health Week, so we’re also taking a look at teeth. As GP’s, particularly rural GPs, we have patients presenting as a result of dental disease almost on a daily basis. For most of us, our undergraduate teaching barely touched on problems in the mouth, and it’s certainly an...
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Exams are the performance of your life that will make or break your future. The months leading up to the exam are essential to gathering facts and knowledge and forming good habits. The weeks leading up to the exam are essential to prepare mentally. On the day of the exam, you need to focus like...
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Doctors who work in rural and remote communities have all descended on Cairns for the 14th World Rural Health Conference. With such an exciting array of speakers on offer, it’s tough to choose which session to miss, as you can unfortunately only be at one place at a time. Various RVTS Medical Educators will be...
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