Department of General Practice Newsletter – Summer 2018

Welcome

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our regular summer newsletter full of news for holiday reading! Feel free to browse online and to click on items of interest or view the 2018 Summer WSU GP Newsletter PDF (opens in a new window)

We re-cap some of the highpoints of our busy year and in particular share news of Penny Abbott’s recent award of a Churchill Fellowship to further her work on health care access for those in contact with the criminal justice system.

The GP Supervisor news incudes an update on plans for Year 1&2 GP teaching as part of our MD program commencing next year. Sharon Lawrence provides information on new processes to be introduced across all of our GP placements in 2019 – a student placement agreement and an automated matching process for allocation of GP placements. We also showcase the work in Refugee health of one of our many exceptional GP training practices. Dr Lawrence Tan brings you an introduction to resources he has developed on Musculo-skeletal medicine.

At this time of the year we celebrate many student prize winners and we greatly value the generosity of donors to these prestigious awards.  Please let me know if you would like to donate to a student award!

For the first time we are reporting in this newsletter on some of our Alumni achievements. We are hearing about increasing numbers of WSU graduates choosing GP as a career and many coming forward now to teach our students – this is a dream come true! Please help us to promote a short survey we are using to make contact with our GP graduates including those in training at the GP Alumni Survey.

A key contributor to our work in the community, Miriam Brooks reports on a teaching session at a local high school discussing Sexually Transmissible Illnesses.

In this edition of our newsletter we bring you news of student and GP Supervisor research as well as updating you on some of our research projects and providing an opportunity for you to participate in two current research projects. These are Kam Wong’s research investigating GP views about screening for Atrial Fibrillation and a project I am partnering on looking at the impact of a patient mobile phone App in management of gout.

For those reading this newsletter online please click on the headings below to read the details!

Please let us know if you have any suggestions for our GP teaching program and especially if you are interested in taking Year 1&2 students or providing research supervision for MD students.

We wish you a very happy and safe Christmas- New Year break and all the very best in 2019!

Warmest Regards,

Jenny

Professor Jenny Reath | Peter Brennan Chair of General Practice

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