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
Study by GP Synergy scholarship recipient published
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 Menopause Society. The paper, GP registrar consultations addressing menopause-related symptoms: a cross-sectional analysis, aimed to investigate the prevalence and ... Read more
Case study on female reproductive health published
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 edition of RACGP’s check (independent learning program) focuses on the use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) as a contraception option for a young woman. Currently Dr Turner is ... Read more
