Blogs by tag - General Practitioners

General Practitioner VMO Positions: A Lucrative Path for FRACGP and FACRRM Holders

General Practitioners (GPs) are essential healthcare professionals who play a vital role in providing comprehensive primary care to patients. While many GPs work in private practices or clinics, t...

GP Transition Training Welcomed by the RACGP

The transfer of GP training on February 1, 2023, has been hailed by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) as a historic day. It can be remembered that in October 2017, Gr...

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Australia’s vaccine roll-out is currently behind developing countries like Rwanda and Bangladesh

GPs all over Australia are distressed by the country’s slow vaccination roll-out. Since the roll-out began, the operation has been slowed by importation restrictions, floods, and poor delivery....

Australians React to the AstraZeneca Vaccine

Over the last week, five people have reported allergic reactions to the AstraZeneca Vaccine, and another 14 reacted to the Pfizer vaccine. The reports rose from all most states in Australia, in...

GPs Receive Quarter of the Requested Dosage as Vaccine Roll-out Ramps Up

As GPs begin to vaccinate patients all over the country, some complaints have arisen of insufficient dose supplies. GPs have been receiving 50 doses per week instead of the requested 200 per day....

AMA demands new action as two new hotel quarantine cases are discovered

The Holiday Inn at the Melbourne airport has drawn the attention of the AMA and other health organizations after two new cases were discovered in quarantine — one patient and one quarantine wor...

How Australia’s covid-19 vaccination rollout affects GPs

According to the Epidemiology and Covid-19 vaccine roadmap, GPs will not be among the first to receive the long-awaited vaccines. Comments from the RACGP President, Dr. Karen Price, shone a light...

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ACRRM welcomes extension to the Rural Procedural Grants Program

The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) welcomes the Government’s extension to the Rural Procedural Grants Program (RPGP), asserting its importance in supporting Rural Generalis...

Attracting (and keeping) Australia's rural health workers

Supporting more health workers to remain in rural and remote Australian communities is about helping them settle in socially, as well as professionally.Australians in rural and remote areas have p...

What keeps IMGs in rural areas after their 10-year moratorium?

Some overseas-trained GPs move to major cities after their mandatory rural work, but others stay on and put down roots. What makes people stay?For international medical graduates (IMGs) settling i...