20 Feb 2024
How Academic Posts can offer ‘enormous benefits’
Ahead of applications for the next round of the program, past and present academic registrars share highlights and expectations.
20 Feb 2024
Shingles management added to pharmacy prescribing pilot
Victorian pharmacists can supply treatments from next month, but one GP says ‘fearless’ evaluation is key to the trial's success.
20 Feb 2024
‘Unhurried whole-person care’ proves best: Study
Longer consultations and a regular GP have proven vital in keeping older Australians out of hospital, according to findings from a 1000-patient clinical trial.
19 Feb 2024
Exercise must be ‘core treatment’ for depression: Study
Researchers have urged GPs to prescribe physical activity alongside traditional interventions, with yoga and strength training especially beneficial.
19 Feb 2024
Feminist language being hijacked to market medical tests
Narratives around empowerment and women’s rights are being co-opted to market interventions not backed by evidence, according to new research.
19 Feb 2024
New sun safety guidelines a ‘timesaver for busy GPs’
The overhauled advice considers skin colour and differing risk of developing cancer, in a bid to better reflect Australia’s diverse population.
16 Feb 2024
GPs encouraged to upskill in opioid dependence treatment
An RACGP program aims to help GPs better understand this ‘rewarding’ area of medicine and boost authorised prescriber numbers.
16 Feb 2024
‘We’re just different – and it works really well’
The director of Banksia Medical Centre, Dr Bernard Shiu talks about the approach that led to the clinic becoming the RACGP’s general practice of the year.
15 Feb 2024
GP iron infusions would save health system $124m: RACGP
The college is calling on the Government to create a new $200 MBS item to subsidise the procedure, saying it will save patients time and money.
15 Feb 2024
More than $7.5m awarded to general practice research
Six GP-led projects have received grants as part of the most recent Medical Research Future Fund allocation.