GPTEC 2018 was held in Adelaide from the 11-13 September 2018. With a record number of 740 attendees, the conference was packed with presentations and workshops on general practice education and training. This year’s conference theme ‘Switch On’ focused on empowering leaders in all aspects of general practice and primary healthcare. GP Synergy ... Read more
Junior doctors, burnout and wellbeing
Dr Rebekah Hoffman completed an academic post as part of her GP training. Her research, prompted by her personal experience as a junior doctor, has been published in the Australian Journal of General Practice. The paper titled Junior doctors, burnout and wellbeing: Understanding the experience of burnout in general practice registrars and ... Read more
GP Synergy receives Education Research Grants
GP Synergy is pleased to be the recipient of two RACGP Education Research Grants 2018-2019. The grants will be supporting: CREATE (ChaRacteristics of Early-career GPs and Associations with their Training Experience) CREATE will be a retrospective cohort study of the alumni of three regional training organisations. The study objectives are ... Read more
GP training intervention further targets benzodiazepine prescribing rates
New research published by GP Synergy's Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training (ReCEnT) project team in the Journal of General Internal Medicine1 has found that GP registrars’ benzodiazepine prescribing decreased significantly during the period 2010-2015, on average at a rate of 6% per year. The ReCEnT project has so far recorded more than ... Read more
GP training academic post applications close soon!
The formal application period for applying to undertake academic research as part of GP training closes 5.00pm AEST 2 July 2018. In an academic post, you have the opportunity to complete a research project, gain teaching experience and attend relevant courses and conferences under the supervision of experienced and widely recognised and ... Read more
Katie Mulquiney wins emerging researcher prize
Congratulations to Research Assistant, Katie Mulquiney, for being awarded the DAA’s Nutrition & Dietetics Emerging Researcher Prize for her paper, ‘Referrals to dietitians/nutritionists: A cross-sectional analysis of Australian GP registrars’ clinical practice’. This award recognises the best article of a first time author of original ... Read more
