Nearly 50 years ago, two icons of the modern age combined – The Rolling Stones and Andy Warhol. The cutting edges of popular music and contemporary art. Warhol once said, ‘in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes’. This 15 minutes of fame concept has almost outlived his art. Regardless of whether this is true or not, The Rolling Stones are still going and Warhol’s 15 minutes is 50 years plus and counting.
the famous album cover – ‘sticky fingers’
PartridgeGP is set up to give you your 15 minutes of fame with every appointment – we don’t feel your health can be meaningfully addressed in smaller segments. Sometimes, we can be very focussed with shorter appointments (our upcoming COVID and influenza vaccination clinics, for example), but 15 minute minimum appointments have served well so far. PartridgeGP has been chosen to be one of the practices that may deliver the COVID vaccinations to you in phase 1b of the rollout. We can circle back to Warhol and the Stones now. There is a famous letter, when Mick Jagger decided to engage Warhol – one creative genius knew exactly what to say to another:
We await some further paperwork and advice from the Federal Government via Adelaide PHN in regard to exactly what their requirements of us are. Hopefully, their brief will have more in common with Mick’s missive above than the 16 different new item numbers they have generated for the act of marrying vaccines and patients in the community. Otherwise, it could all end like Warhol and the Stones – when Mick Jagger took it upon himself to handwrite the track names over Warhol’s art. Warhol never forgave him and their partnership ended there.
PartridgeGP works with you to help you make your best health decisions, and we won’t back away from being your companion, guide, advisor, and sounding board through your health journey. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you. This is only MORE important now, in the time of a global pandemic with a new vaccine on the horizon. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.
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There are two best buddies, Chicken and Pig. They are both foodies and decide to open a cafe – Bacon and Eggs. It’s iconic, it’s awesome, and soon, every morning, there is a line up outside. One month in, the boys meet up. Chicken is tired, but happy. Pig…well he is wrecked. He’s lost weight and staggers in.
Chicken is involved (laying the eggs) but Pig is committed (giving the pound of flesh). There are a couple of takeaways (Boom Tish) from this little story. Firstly, you can’t take more than you give. This is really important to us at PartridgeGP. We must give value back to our patients in proportion to the investment of time, energy, money, and trust they make in us. Inequality doesn’t work. Secondly, everything has to be sustainable. Giving a pound of flesh every time (even after some post-COVID ‘gains’) doesn’t work either.
PartridgeGP works with you to help you make your best health decisions, and we won’t back away from being your companion, guide, advisor, and sounding board through your health journey. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you. This is only MORE important now, in the time of a global pandemic with a new vaccine on the horizon. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.
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Leaner, fitter, stronger, faster, and healthier. Low carb promises all of this and more. Does it deliver? Let’s see! Now I originally wrote this post in 2016, and found that 3 months of solid investment produced some solid dividends. How much? Well, when I was training for an ultramarathon in 2011, I ran the City to Bay (12km), in around 53 minutes 30 seconds. Not too bad. But. This was on the background of running 70 – 100 km a week in training. This father of one (with another to come) ain’t got time for that. So I’m revisiting 2016, where that investment in diet rather than exercise delivered a City to Bay time of around 57 minutes, on the background of running 5 – 10 km a week. I like that return on investment. So here we go again!
In the meantime, we will continue to work hard at PartridgeGP!
PartridgeGP works with you to help you make your best health decisions, and we won’t back away from being your companion, guide, advisor, and sounding board through your health journey. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you. This is only MORE important now, in the time of a global pandemic with a new vaccine on the horizon. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.
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Stories are how we communicate as humans. The Greek Myths have persisted for thousands of years. Mythology explained natural phenomena, cultural variations, traditional enmities, and friendships. I’m not going to try to write an epic for the ages here; I’m not going to wax lyrical. I am going to try to illustrate a basic tenet of great quality General Practice.
Galen came nearly a thousand years after the Greek Myths and was a physician of Greek descent in the Roman Empire. Wikipedia tells us: Galen received a comprehensive education that prepared him for a successful career as a physician and philosopher. Born in the ancient city of Pergamon (present-day Bergama, Turkey), Galen travelled extensively, exposing himself to a wide variety of medical theories and discoveries before settling in Rome, where he served prominent members of Roman society and eventually was given the position of personal physician to several emperors.
He is often credited with the the model we use today which is where the doctor takes a history, performs an examination, and then investigates further. This allows the doctor to arrive at a diagnosis, a label that allows comparison with previous patients and further allows useful predictions about what might work to help or hinder the patient’s recovery. Today we have amazing tests and scans but they are FAR MORE useful if these are used AFTER taking a good history and performing a useful clinical examination. For example, if a man has a positive pregnancy test, there is no baby; a normal x-ray of your finger tells us nothing about your headache.
Patients will often ask for an ‘everything’ test. ‘Just check me for everything, doc’, they say, cheerfully. This has many pitfalls. Firstly, to do every blood test would require taking ALL of your blood. You do need your blood to do little things, like carry oxygen around your body so you can live. It’s kind of essential. You can’t give it all away. Secondly, we hit that pregnancy test problem again. Not everyone with a positive pregnancy test is pregnant. While this is obviously easy to overcome – men don’t get pregnant – what do you do with a positive lupus anticoagulant test in an otherwise fit and healthy person? Thirdly, taking some blood might be relatively quick and painless, but what if we then need to do another test because of those results? This could be painful, dangerous, or expensive (or all three). There are lots more potential issues – which is why we recommend a great GP, with a history and clinical examination, before any testing.
There are only 5 reasons to do a test. Any test. Four of them require follow up. Let’s look at the one that doesn’t, first. Number three above, screening, is when we take perfectly healthy people and check them with a screening test, looking for disease. We ONLY need to follow this up with an appointment if the test is positive, because you were fit and healthy before the test, with no issues. Examples of these screening tests include faecal occult blood tests on your poo (when was the last time you used the word stool), mammograms, and cervical screening tests. We can send you a simple form text message if these tests are negative. Easy. Lets look at the other four cases, and we’ll use a story.
A hypothetical patient (let’s call him Hamer, to avoid any copyright issues) presents to his GP with an itchy rash. The GP takes a history and performs a clinical examination. A picture is worth a thousand words, especially with a rash, so I’ve just popped a couple of images below.
Hamer is troubled by the itch, and the diagnosis is unclear, so the GP prescribes some symptomatic treatment and takes some blood, and a swab from the itchy areas, These are sent off to the pathology lab. As an aside, pathology is pretty cool, and there’s a great podcast with Dr Travis Brown, This Pathological Life, where he uses stories to make pathology understandable to all. Check it out! Back to the rash. Now, it could be herpes. We need to rule this IN or OUT. After all, that’s a pretty important diagnosis to make. So regardless of whether the test is positive (herpes ruled IN – needing advice and treatment) or the test is negative (herpes ruled OUT – so what the hell is the rash? Is it still there?), we still need to follow this up. If the test is positive, and we treat the herpes, we may retest to confirm resolution (prognosis and monitoring). I’ve tried to make this story cover all scenarios but basically ALL tests other than screening tests NEED to be followed up with an appointment. This is a quality measure and it’s better for you. This is why PartridgeGP doesn’t suggest that you ring our awesome reception team for your test results. They are awesome at reception, not herpes.
PartridgeGP works with you to help you make your best health decisions, and we won’t back away from being your companion, guide, advisor, and sounding board through your health journey. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you. This is only MORE important now, in the time of a global pandemic with a new vaccine on the horizon. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.
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In 2005, I turned 30. I was fat, and had been fat for the better part of 10 years. I had put on 6kg a year throughout university and had carried this into my working life. I had a sedentary job, did little or no exercise, ate everything that moved slower than me, and enjoyed a drink. They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
fat not phat
Looking at this picture after the event moved me from contemplation to determination. I had the knowledge and the ability to lose weight – now I had to do it. Action was needed. In my experience, this is where people fall down. There is plenty of information and advice out there, and plenty of people are willing to help you. Many think about doing things, fewer talk about doing things, and fewer still actually do things. Just do it!
there is no try
I decided to take some time off in 2006, after 6 years of solid work. I started to move more – I walked, took the stairs, and got up during the day. I cut down my television and reduced my portion sizes. I resolved to drink on social occasions and not at home. I could not run – I got out of breath jogging to my door. I found a local lake, and ran/walked from lamp post to lamp post around it, daily. I set myself the goal of running the City to Bay (12 kilometres) that year, and had a bet with my work colleagues, with the proceeds going to charity. You may have noticed that all of these sentences start with ‘I’. It’s bad writing but a good example – it all started and finished with me. I couldn’t buy health, fitness, and weight loss, I couldn’t pay someone else to do it for me – I had to do it.
something to crow about
I lost nearly 15 kilos for the City to Bay 2006 and ran it in just under 90 minutes at just over 100 kilos. A good start. There was more work to be done. I continued to run and go to the gym, but my next leap forward was to associate more with like minded people. I was talking more about running and exercise, and people could see the changes. People (and patients) started talking to me about what they were doing. My City to Bay time in 2007 was around 75 minutes, at around 95 kilos. There was still progress – but it had slowed. I’d already plucked the ‘low hanging fruit’ and further progress was going to get harder. However, I now had a support group of friends, colleagues, patients, and family to help me move on. I then joined a Bootcamp group – making friends that I have to this day. This added activity to my week, and allowed me to reach the next level. My 2008 City to Bay time came down to 65 minutes. What next?
glenelg 10km 2009
When you start trying to improve yourself, you attract like minded individuals, and I was lucky enough to have one such person literally walk in my door at work. She knows who she is so I won’t embarrass her here, but she took me under her wing and decided to train me to run marathons.
hi doctor nick
fresh as a daisy
ultra shorts
Despite some fairly ordinary fashion sense and my shorts trying to migrate to unmentionable areas, I think I can declare the experiment a success! I’m continuing to train, continuing to run, and looking forward to this years Adelaide Marathon and City to Bay. Take control, take action, and write your own story! 😎
deadlifting
In 2021, after some gains in the wrong direction during COVID, I shall be getting back into things – you will see the progress here…
PartridgeGP works with you to help you make your best health decisions, and we won’t back away from being your companion, guide, advisor, and sounding board through your health journey. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you. This is only MORE important now, in the time of a global pandemic with a new vaccine on the horizon. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.
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The Australian Government is expecting approval of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines by the end of this month, with a rollout to priority groups beginning mid-February. In addition to being able to administer the vaccine when available, healthcare professionals will also be able to receive the vaccine in the following rollout phases:
Phase 1a
Frontline at-risk health care workers including staff in GP respiratory clinics and COVID-19 testing facilities, ambulance staff, paramedics, ICU and emergency department staff and clinical and ancillary support staff Residential aged care and disability care staff Residential aged care and disability care residents Quarantine and border workers
COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out to RACFs
*The information provided in this section is relevant to residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Information relating to general practice and other health providers will be distributed as it becomes available. The Australian Government has commenced the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out across Australia, with RACF residents being among the first who can choose to receive the vaccine. Phase 1a of the vaccine roll-out is due to commence next week in some RACFs, with only the residents of the facilities able to receive the vaccine in the first instance. The Department of Health has released a COVID-19 vaccine aged care readiness toolkit to assist RACFs in planning for the vaccine roll-out and preparing facilities for vaccination. The toolkit includes a Site Readiness Checklist and Written Consent Form.
Information is available for aged care workers and residents, their families and representatives to help make an informed decision about COVID-19 vaccination.
As with all other vaccines, valid consent is required before administering each COVID-19 vaccine dose.
Workers and residents may choose to talk to a health professional about the benefits and risks of vaccination. This will help to decide if vaccination is suitable.
The following resources will assist in deciding about COVID-19 vaccination:
Consent by a guardian or substitute decision-maker
Some jurisdictions have specific requirements relevant to guardians (or substitute decision-makers) consenting on behalf of another person.
If consenting to participate in the COVID-19 vaccination program on behalf of an aged care resident, refer to the enduring guardianship legislation in your state or territory for more information.
Phase 1b
Adults over 70 years All other health care workers Begin to vaccinate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Younger adults with an underlying medical condition, including those with a disability Critical and high risk workers including defence, police, fire, emergency services and meat processing.
Vaccine eligibility checker
The vaccine eligibility checker, hosted by healthdirect, is now live. Users are asked a number of questions relating to age, location, occupation and underlying medical conditions to determine whether they’re currently eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. If you’re eligible to receive the vaccine under phase 1a, vaccinations will be organised by your employer, or facility where you consult, who will contact you to provide further information on how to receive your vaccination.
Some information for those whose first language isn’t English:
The Department of Health have developed a stakeholder pack for multicultural audiences with information on the COVID-19 vaccines.
The pack contains in-language communication resources and key messages to inform and educate everyone in Australia about the COVID-19 vaccines. Resources in the pack include audio files, videos, social media content, posters and factsheets.
You can also find a letter from Dr Lucas De Toca, Assistant Secretary of the COVID-19 Primary Care Response at the Australian Government Department of Health, about how you can help support in sharing the latest information.
Provisional approval of the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is currently anticipated in February 2021, subject to regulatory requirements being met. Both vaccines will progressively be distributed through an expanded number of sites, including general practice clinics, existing Commonwealth GP respiratory clinics, state-run vaccination clinics and pharmacies.
Over-65s and the AstraZeneca vaccine
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has provisionally approved the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for use in Australia for people 18 years of age and over.The TGA statement notes, ‘There are currently limited data available for the efficacy and safety in individuals over 65 years of age. However, the vaccine has been shown to create an immune response in this group and can be used based on the efficacy and safety demonstrated in the general clinical trial population. The decision to immunise an elderly patient should be decided on a case-by-case basis’.
In his General Practice COVID-19 update newsletter, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Michael Kidd states, ‘There is no requirement for people over the age of 65 to discuss with their GP whether they should or should not have the AstraZeneca vaccine, unless they are very frail and/or rapidly approaching the end of life. Patients who are very frail, or their carers, are advised to discuss any vaccination with their GP’.
All vaccines used in Australia must be approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). The TGA assesses the safety, quality and effectiveness of vaccines before they are registered for use.
COVID-19 vaccines will be free for everyone living in Australia and the Government has made it clear that COVID-19 vaccination will be voluntary – but it is strongly encouraged. More information about training for health professionals will be available in the coming weeks that will cover vaccine specific information, multi-dose vials, infection control, wastage, and adverse event reporting.
The Department of Health developed a new vaccine website so you can stay informed. This website is regularly being updated with more information as it becomes available. Information will also be available in 63 languages. Subscribe to the COVID-19 vaccines updates to ensure you receive the latest updates available on the website. Thanks to the AMA for all of this – become a member!
In summary, version 1.0
PartridgeGP works with you to help you make your best health decisions, and we won’t back away from being your companion, guide, advisor, and sounding board through your health journey. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you. This is only MORE important now, in the time of a global pandemic with a new vaccine on the horizon. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.
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Part of the comprehensive care we provide at PartridgeGP includes visiting ResidentialAged Care Facilities
It is a pleasure and a privilege to serve our older patients
We MUST remember certain rules
You MUST see your patient (face to face or via telephone/telehealth) for them to claim a Medicare Rebate
There is NO such thing as a QUICK LOOK
Older patients are frail – do not prescribe powerful medications (opioids, benzodiazepines, anti-hypertensives) without careful consideration and review.
The Swiss Cheese model of accident causation, originally proposed by James Reason, likens human system defences to a series of slices of randomly-holed Swiss Cheese arranged vertically and parallel to each other with gaps in-between each slice.
We spend time developing a relationship with the facilities as well as our patients. This builds trust and all parties know more about the capabilities, needs, and limitations of the other. This is not just a residential aged care issue – this is an issue with hospitals as well. I have mentioned this here and here.
“PASSING the baton” describes what health care professionals try to achieve as care of patients is transferred between providers in our complex health care systems. The safety concerns related to poor clinical handover are not new: it’s a problem the health care industry and doctors as a profession have been grappling with for decades. Poor clinical handovers are wasteful of limited resources. How can we improve patient outcomes and “drop the baton” less often?
There is not a pill for every ill. Recent studies have shown what we have long thought – many medications are just not that useful for our elders. We can, will, and do support our fantastic residential aged care facilities and their staff in looking after our patients/residents without multiple excess medications. Facilities are labouring under the imposts of paperwork and bureaucracy. We will help!
Let’s continue with this!
There is not a pill for every ill and pills do not substitute for great nursing care. We will support our patients to live their best lives and we will support our Residential Aged Care Facilities and their staff in helping them do that as well. After all, some of these medications just don’t work as well as they say they do…
Calling after hours doctors (often NOT GPs) during the after hours period, when regular staff are not on, and expecting them to do great work, speaks to a failure during the in hours period, in my opinion. Clear communication, documentation, and direction based on regular in hours reviews with patients, staff, and families, should reduce inappropriate prescribing of sedative hypnotics – and reduce falls, improve quality use of medicines, and potentially, add life to years rather than years to (sedated) life.
Urine. It’s not the window to the soul. Urine samples should only be sent to the lab when the clinical decision has been made to use antibiotics. A urine dipstick (a plastic strip with colour coded boxes that turn different colours in the setting of infection or abnormalities) is more than enough to make clinical decisions with. Don’t waste money looking at urine for no reason.
Don’t just leave medications on a drug chart without thinking about whether they are still needed. A drug chart full of entries is time nursing staff have to spend with pills and charts rather than with patients. Pills aren’t care…in fact they eat away at the time and attention allocated to care. Less is very often more.
Sometimes, people need to be restrained, chemically or physically, for their own benefit. This should be safe, legal, and rare. This is always a case where some calm talking with patients, staff, and families, can produce better outcomes.
PartridgeGP works with all involved with aged care to help make better health decisions, and we won’t just ‘have a quick look’. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you.
Let us be the missing piece in your puzzle! This is only MORE important now, in the time of a global pandemic with a new vaccine on the horizon. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.
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If you are a great GP or a great Allied Health Professional, and you want to serve your clients or patients to the best of your ability, without worrying about all the non clinical things that get in your way, lets talk. Call Mrs Hayley Roberts on 8295 3200 and have a coffee and chat with us as to how PartridgeGP can help you to help others.
Happy Monday! I’ve written about having a positive spin on Mondays – how are you all going with this? Monday can really set up your week; if you play it right. Here are some ideas for winning at Mondays (and remember, even if you don’t think these are great ideas, it’s better to execute a middling idea than not action a great idea).
Firstly, if you don’t look forward to Mondays, you are interacting with people. There are no boring people, you’re just not asking the right questions! Have a think about this. The language you use affects the way you see the world (and Mondays). Two further thoughts on this: If you are really dealing with people you don’t like, on Mondays or any other day, perhaps you need to change your contacts…and furthermore, the people you dislike are often the people who remind you most of yourself!
Secondly, time and tide run through the roughest day. Courtney Dauwalter, world class ultramarathoner, talks about the ‘pain cave’. She knows there will be pain during an ultramarathon and prepares for it. She frames this as a necessary stimulus for growth – you can’t sit on your couch and expect to become mentally resilient. She then imagines pain as a place, that she can come to, and then leave, putting her in control. Finally, the ‘pain cave’ – combining the two thoughts – inside the cave you fear to enter is the treasure you seek. As an aside, having personally run Australia’s shortest ultramarathon, I am in awe of this athlete!
looking a damn sight fresher than I did after running an ultra
Finally, for those of you who really, really, really can’t face Mondays, perhaps YOU don’t have to. Beyoncé has Sasha Fierce, Kobe Bryant had Black Mamba. Perhaps you need a Monday Alter Ego! You have to do the things that vote for the person who want to become – and look how successful these alter egos can be.
PartridgeGP works with you to help you make your best health decisions, even on Mondays, and we won’t back away from being your companion, guide, advisor, and sounding board through your health journey. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you. This is only MORE important now, in the time of a global pandemic with a new vaccine on the horizon. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.
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Welcome back and happy Sunday! I was all set to appear on Talking HealthTech with Peter Birch and boom…major tech failure. So, after deciding rescheduling would be a good idea, because nothing substitutes for pleasing conduct, and my conduct and views on tech were NOT going to be pleasing…here we are with a new computer!
Now a football stadium turned GP-led mass COVID vaccination site is on the cards.
The proposed site is Whitten Oval, home to AFL club the Western Bulldogs, where up to 450 people could be vaccinated with the Oxford University/AstraZeneca candidate per hour once up and running.
Dr Anita Muñoz, Chair of RACGP Victoria and member of the RACGP’s COVID Working Group, told newsGP the innovative venture could be the latest example of successful advocacy conducted jointly by the state faculty and the Australian Medical Association’s (AMA) Victorian branch since the beginning of the year.
This is also an opportunity to see your GP, and book in routine medical care (and your second dose!), which is super important at all times. It’s also an opportunity, I think, and here is where I will segue to my personal opinion, to prepare yourself for a return to the usual things in life – relatives and family, travel and holidays, exercise and eating/drinking in moderation. Some will say that we will not eradicate COVID and we will not be at zero risk. Therefore travel is out and normal life cannot resume. I refer back to my post on risk and say that the aim is to get risk down to bearable levels, not to get to zero risk. The only zero risk state is death.
PartridgeGP works with you to help you make your best health decisions, and we won’t back away from being your companion, guide, advisor, and sounding board through your health journey. We pride ourselves on great communication and we’re ready to share our professional skills and knowledge with you. This is only MORE important now, in the time of a global pandemic with a new vaccine on the horizon. The way forward is clear: make your appointment with us conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 82953200.
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If you are a great GP or a great Allied Health Professional, and you want to serve your clients or patients to the best of your ability, without worrying about all the non clinical things that get in your way, lets talk. Call Mrs Hayley Roberts on 8295 3200 and have a coffee and chat with us as to how PartridgeGP can help you to help others.
Dr Elias Salagaras completed his medical training through the University of Adelaide in 2017. He is enthusiastic about child health, having completed rotations at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. He was also worked throughout the Central Adelaide Local Health Network, and the Whyalla Hospital. He is looking forward to bringing all of this recent knowledge to his specialist GP training!
Dr Elias is here to help you at PartridgeGP as Your GP! He is available to help you with all of your General Practice needs from the start of February 2021 and you can make your appointment with him conveniently online right here – or call our friendly reception team on 0882953200.
All of our doctors here at PartridgeGP are fully qualified ‘Fellows’ (or are studying towards this ‘Registrars’) holding a specialist qualification with either the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) or the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (FACRRM) or both (3-4 years of full time study and 3 exams on top of an undergraduate university medical degree and supervised trainee ‘intern’ year in a hospital). This is our minimum specialist standard and you can see more about what this involves here. Our Fellows provide supervision and advice to our Registrars.
We also supervise and teach Medical Students from Flinders University. They are still studying to become doctors. All of us – Fellows, Registrars, and Medical Students – make up the Clinical Team here at PartridgeGP with our excellent Practice Nurses. We all uphold the highest standards of privacy, confidentiality, professionalism, and clinical practice.
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If you’re employed, get a side hustle and get into business. If you’ve already got a business, get a network. Want to get started? Find your tribe here!
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If you are a great GP or a great Allied Health Professional, and you want to serve your clients or patients to the best of your ability, without worrying about all the non clinical things that get in your way, lets talk. Call Mrs Hayley Roberts on 8295 3200 and have a coffee and chat with us as to how PartridgeGP can help you to help others.
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