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NIPT Mackenzie’s Mission
Updated Advice for the Care of Pregnant Women Dear Obstetric Shared Care GPs, Welcome back to another GP Obstetric Shared Care update. March celebrates International Women’s Day and the message for 2021 proclaims that ‘a challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change’. We can all choose to challenge! Celebrate women’s achievements. Raise […]
Who is walking in your door?
GPEx has recently hosted Trisha Rogers, a Masters of Public Health student from the University of Adelaide, to complete her research placement. Trisha has worked with the Research and Innovation team at GPEx to analyse de-identified GP Explore data and identify trends. So, what does it tell us? This shows similar patterns to other published […]
International Women’s Day
GPEx is proud to have a number of female GP Registrars in its training program, and today celebrates the role these female GPs and Registrars have in their local communities, especially in regional and rural South Australia. GPEx also has a number of female Medical Educators, who educate and support the next generation of GPs. […]
COVID vaccination for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women Webinar
Updated Advice for the Care of Pregnant Women Dear Obstetric Shared Care GPs, Welcome back to another GP Obstetric Shared Care update. The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has begun and I suspect that we are all a little awestruck at the rapid pace of scientific discovery and the incredible community engagement that has bought us to […]
Failure Rate of Doctors Sitting the GP Fellowship Exams and How to Beat the Statistics
You don’t have to be ‘just a statistic’ Everyone wants to succeed. No one starts something with the goal of failing, but sometimes it happens. At times it can be hard to understand why we failed when we feel we’ve done what was needed to pass. This is especially true if we have never failed […]
Covid-19 Vaccination
Updated Advice for the Care of Pregnant Women Dear Obstetric Shared Care GPs, This decision guide is for pregnant women who are considering COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy, who are breastfeeding or who are planning to become pregnant. It contains information about the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty (Pfizer, Australia). This information will be updated when other vaccines become […]
Meet Dr James Walker
The variety of work and collegiality while dealing with emergencies and the challenges of remote medicine are what encouraged Dr James Walker to train as a rural GP. “It was the scope of practice and the people that drew me in. There is nothing like being a rural generalist,” he said. Currently practising in Jamestown, […]
Dealing with GP Fellowship post-exam blues
You’ve done it! You’ve spent months preparing for your GP Fellowship exams and it’s finally over. Now what? You’re likely feeling relieved that the prolonged KFP, MCQ/AKT or CCE study period has finished and hopefully quietly confident that you’ve passed so you can tick this achievement off your to-do list. You’re looking forward to moving on to other bigger and […]
Meet Dr Megan Wild
When I was a child, I assumed every doctor delivered babies as well as treated broken wrists and cared for your Nanna in hospital with pneumonia – so naturally, I wanted to do all of these things too! As a GP, every day is different – different patients, presentations and emergencies. It’s satisfying to work […]
Great Year 2021
Updated Advice for the Care of Pregnant Women Dear Obstetric Shared Care GPs, GP Partners and the GP Obstetric Shared Care Team are excited to welcome 2021 and to start the New Year with sharing resources and information to keep you up-to-date and well informed. We are in the process of finalising the 2021 calendar of […]
