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GP Synergy academic registrar Dr Kathleen Wild explored the issues of how registrars anticipate climate change will affect their future patients, whether they think the ...

We've had a protocol paper for our QUestionable In Training Clinical Activities (QUIT-CA) ReCEnT study published in BMJ Open: Magin P, Ralston A, Tapley A, et al Low-value’ clinical care ...

A cross-sectional analysis, questionnaire- based study, the New alumni EXperiences of Training and independent Unsupervised Practice (NEXT-UP) included participants who were early-career GPs who had ...

Congratulations to Dominica Moad and collaborators on the publication of: 'Socioeconomic status of practice location and Australian GP registrars’ training: a cross-sectional analysis'! A cross-sectional ...

The paper 'Socioeconomic disadvantage and the practice location of recently Fellowed Australian GPs: a cross-sectional analysis' draws upon data collected as part of the New alumni ...

Congratulations to former GP Synergy medical student scholarship recipient Lachlan Arthur, and his co-authors from Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Services and Australian National University Centre ...

Congratulations to Dr Michael Tran and collaborators for their recently published paper based on data from the Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training (ReCEnT) study. The ...

GP Synergy is excited to announce that we have 12 GP Synergy General Practice Scholarship recipients this year. Students are from Charles Sturt University, Macquarie ...

This timely project aims to explore how increased telehealth uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic period has impacted on the clinical and educational experiences of general ...

2020-2021 was a busy year for the GP Synergy Research and Evaluation Unit. You can explore our research and evaluation projects activities in our annual ...

Congratulations to former academic registrar Dr Rachel Turner! Rachel has had the final of four papers reporting the body of work she did in 2019 ...

Congratulations to Jocelyn Ledger on the publication of her paper in Family Medicine and Community Health! Ledger J, Tapley A, Levi C, et al Specificity of early-career general practitioners’ problem formulations ...

Congratulations to GP registrar Dr Isabel Hanson who has been named as a 2022 Sir General John Monash Scholar! Isabel is currently training at Gandangara ...

We’re excited to announce that GP Synergy registrars will be undertaking 10 of the 21 available RACGP academic posts in 2022. The projects they will be undertaking ...

Congratulations to GP Synergy academic registrar Dr Katie Fisher on winning the 2021 RACGP Foundation Charles Bridges-Webb Memorial Award! Katie’s award recognises her project, undertaken ...

Congratulations to chief investigator Professor Parker Magin, our Research and Evaluations Team and their collaborators who have had a paper published in The International Journal ...

GP Synergy is pleased to announce that we were successful in having two RACGP 2021 Education Research Grants funded. The competitive Education Research Grant program ...

Congratulations to former academic registrar, Dr Rachel Turner who has just had published an early-view short paper based on the research carried out as part ...

Our 2019-2020 Research Annual Report is now available. If you'd like to know more about how we contribute to training the GPs of tomorrow, our ...

Evidence from the GP Synergy NSW & ACT Research and Evaluation Unit – each month we present findings from our work that may be of ...

The Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care (AAAPC) Annual Research Conference went online this year, and we were part of it! Held over 14–15 August, ...

Evidence from the GP Synergy NSW & ACT Research and Evaluation Unit – each month we present findings from our work that may be of ...

Evidence from the GP Synergy NSW & ACT Research and Evaluation Unit  – each month we present findings from our work that may be of ...

Evidence from the GP Synergy NSW & ACT Research and Evaluation Unit  – each month we present findings from our work that may be of ...

Evidence from the GP Synergy NSW & ACT Research and Evaluation Unit  – each month we present findings from our work that may be of ...

Evidence for practice – findings from the GP Synergy Research and Evaluation Unit GP Synergy research shows that the Competency Assessment Grid has high validity ...

Evidence for practice – findings from the GP Synergy Research and Evaluation Unit Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) includes implants, hormonal intrauterine devices (IUDs), non- hormonal ...

Evidence for practice – findings from the GP Synergy Research and Evaluation Unit Levels of antibiotic prescribing in Australia for acute self-limiting respiratory tract infections ...

We're pleased to announce that we were successful in applying for two RACGP Education Research Grants (ERGs). The projects we'll be carrying out with the ...

Using data from the Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training (ReCEnT) project Dr Hilary Gorges, an academic registrar supervised by Prof Clare Heal at James Cook ...

GP Synergy staff and collaborators are proud to have had a paper published recently in Medical Teacher (an international journal of education in the health ...

Evidence for practice – findings from the GP Synergy Research and Evaluation Unit Answering clinical questions arising from patient care improves care and increases patient ...

We were honoured to present at GPTEC 2019. The conference was held in Melbourne 3 - 5 September 2019 and was a great opportunity to ...

Research Assistant, Irena Patsan, presented a poster and oral presentation at the Dietitians Association of Australia 36th National Conference on the Gold Coast, 12-14 August: ...

In conjunction with our Aboriginal Cultural Education Unit we are pleased to have received the RACGP Foundation Indigenous Health Award funding for the project The diploma ...

We were honoured to be part of the inaugural AAAPC Annual Research Conference in Adelaide 12 - 13 July 2019. The papers that members of our ...

Our team have had five presentations accepted to the inaugural Australasian Association of Academic Primary Care (AAAPC) Annual Research Conference in Adelaide 12 & 13 ...

We've just had a protocol paper published in BMJ Open for our RACGP ERG grant funded NEXT-UP project – New alumni EXperiences of Training and ...

GP Synergy proudly announces GP registrar, Dr Rachel Turner as the 2018 recipient of the NSW/ACT Dr Charlotte Hespe Research Award. The award recognises a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jasmine De Giovanni, a 2017 GP Synergy Medical Student Scholarship recipient, has had her scholarship-funded study published in Menopause - The Journal of the North American ...

Dr Rachel Turner, one of our 2018 academic GP registrars, has a strong interest in female reproductive health. Her case study published in the May ...

Findings from research collected from over 247,000 GP registrar clinical encounters across NSW and ACT can now be accessed via a single one-stop-shop website. The ...

With increased warnings that Australia needs to take action to address the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, a first-of-its-kind study reported* in Family Practice, has ...

More than 570 delegates from across Australia are coming together this week at the annual General Practice Teaching and Education Conference, being held at the ...

Jean Littlewood aspires to be a rural GP. As a GP Synergy Medical Student Scholarship recipient she took the opportunity to do her general practice ...

As a recipient of a GP Synergy Medical Student Scholarship, Belinda Watson used the scholarship to research her interest in geriatrics. A paper based on ...

Academic post location: University of Wollongong – Graduate Medicine, Shoalhaven Campus Background? Initially I was attracted to academic training due to its flexibility, I was heavily ...

Dr Kylie Vuong undertook an academic post during her GP training and is now a Lecturer in Primary Care at the University of New South ...