2019 has come to an end, and we’re in that reflective mood, as is common at this time of the year 🙂 The last 12 months have been jam-packed: and while we’re enjoying a brief lull in proceedings, we’ve been reflecting… Looking back over 2019: We’ve had successful face to face workshops where friendships and...
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RVTS registrars, supervisors, medical educators and staff recently gathered in Sydney for a 5 day face to face workshop. The workshop is always a highlight for everyone involved – it’s a time to master new skills and techniques, consider new ideas, meet new people and generally have fun while learning. In one of the sessions,...
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As a GP working in an Aboriginal Service, I’ve often heard the terms “Mens Business” and “Women’s Business”. In my mind, that has loosely related to “Urological” and “Gynaecological” issues – until I actually asked about it, and discovered that it was oh so much more than that! In the process, I learned a whole...
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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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RVTS registrars work in rural, remote and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. A large portion of our work is in improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes. In this month’s blog, we’re focussing on preventative healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, looking at another great resource that has been developed: The...
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It’s the beginning of the academic year, and the year stretches before us like a blank canvas. Now is a perfect time to consider your “Learning Plan”. A learning plan is a bit like a road map: with the “map” you can identify your start and end points, stops on the way, and the best...
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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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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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RVTS registrars work in Aboriginal Medical Services and rural and remote practices all over Australia, working in a broad range of environments, settings, services and health care delivery models and systems. A large proportion of patients cared for identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. This month we look at some useful resources that can...
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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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There have been a lot of discussions recently on clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning: The process by which practitioners collect and process information. Clinical reasoning is a skill which can be learned, and taught. It’s an elusive concept, and involves both reasoning and pattern recognition, but it entails even more than that. It embodies experience and logic. For some, it...
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How do you explain a diagnosis to a patient in a concise, understandable, succinct way? During a recent discussion with a registrar, a few universal tactics were discussed: find out what the patient already knows about the condition tailor the information to the individual use simple language that will be easily understood provide written information (there are...
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