Imagine that you’re a GP registrar, and your supervisor has sat in on one of your consults, and now wants to give you feedback. Have you ever considered how open you are to feedback? Apparently, as a group, health professionals are not very good at self-assessing our performance. But as registrars, we should always be...
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Dizziness is a common presentation to general practice (between 1 – 15% of consultations)1. When patients present complaining of dizziness, it’s important to gain an understanding of exactly what they mean, as various terms are used to describe different clinical presentations. In this month’s webinar excerpt, we share a short snippet from the webinar on...
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Workers Compensation and Return to Work is a topic that is challenging for registrars, but an area where we as a GPs can have a positive impact on the outcome, just by the way we approach the patient. A common presentation, like acute back pain following an injury at work, can become chronic and complicated...
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In this month’s webinar excerpt, we’re talking about Menopause with Dr Elizabeth Farrell AM, a gynaecologist and the Medical Director of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health. Dr Farrell outlines important definitions, explains how the diagnosis of menopause is made, and highlights some of management options available so clearly and simply that you’ll wonder what all...
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Welcome to 2019! We’re kicking off with one of those tricky subjects in general practice: the overlap of pain and addiction. As GPs, we aim to relieve pain and minimise harm, but occasionally patients get addicted to medications we prescribe. How can we become part of the solution? One of the RVTS supervisors, Ian...
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About 70 children die of sepsis per year in Australia and New Zealand. It is therefore important to have systems in place for early detection of severe infection. Developing an approach to avoid diagnostic error is an important task for each GP. In this episode, we hear from an RVTS Medical Educator, Taras Mikulin, who...
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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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General practitioners are central in providing holistic care from cradle to grave. As part of our services, we are part of the care team coordinating end of life care for our patients. This month we’d like to share a resource to facilitate discussion on providing palliative care specifically for Aboriginal patients. This presentation was developed...
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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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