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Chair Report – September 2024
Chair Reports –September 2024 About Us Who we are Advocacy Research and policy SLOs Contact Us From the Chair… “Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.” Thomas Jefferson’s definition of wisdom or “sagacity” (hopefully this word has you thinking of a sage who has…
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Chair Reports – 2024
Chair Reports About Us Who we are Advocacy Research and policy SLOs Contact Us Chair Reports – 2024 GPSA’s Chair, Dr Srishti Dutta, is actively involved in the stakeholder engagement and broad advocacy work GPSA is engaged in on behalf of the GPSA community. Her monthly Chair Reports include updates on a range of topics…
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Chair Report – August 2024
Chair Reports –August 2024 About Us Who we are Advocacy Research and policy SLOs Contact Us From the Chair… “There is no absolute truth”… or is there? The human brain that remains curious for longer learns more, and discovers more. It knows that wicked problems need more than simple solutions or potential magic bullets. It…
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Chair Report – July 2024
Chair Reports –July 2024 About Us Who we are Advocacy Research and policy SLOs Contact Us From the Chair… Change is the only constant… Or is it? It was almost 15 years ago when, at the orientation day of a vocational training scheme not unlike the AGPT, a speech delivered by the Director – who…
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Out and about – May 2024
Out and about – May 2024 Living out of a suitcase through May! May for our CEO started with a pleasant if lengthy drive to the South Australian Riverlands for the National SEM Conference, where she had the opportunity to speak with supervisors and practice owners participating in the SEM developed for the Renmark and…
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Chair Report – May 2024
Chair Reports –May 2024 About Us Who we are Advocacy Research and policy SLOs Contact Us From the Chair… Change not necessarily the only constant! April 2024 has been a month of many significant days, extremes of celebration and tragedy, but there is one I would like to highlight in particular. ANZAC Day is an…
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Dr Candice Baker
“We really are building the future of general practice”Dr Candice Baker, GP Supervisor and GPSA Board Director Candice obtained fellowship as an Australian General Practitioner in 2015, then as a Canadian Family Physician in 2019. She has worked at a training practice in regional Victoria for 10 years. This is where the seeds of passion…
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Chair Report – April 2024
Chair Reports –April 2024 About Us Who we are Advocacy Research and policy SLOs Contact Us From the Chair… Celebrating & Reflecting March was certainly a month for celebrations and reflection – Harmony Day, International Women’s Day, Holi, St Patricks Day, Ramadan, World Compliment Day, International Day of Happiness, Lent and Easter…. Following the first…
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Dr Kate Manderson
Why get involved with GPSA? “Having lots of skin in the game,” says this high-flying GP Dr Kate Manderson is a name associated broadly with Australian general practice and GP supervision yes, but also with aerospace medicine, corporate and clinical governance, advocacy and – above all else – family and community. On the eve of the…
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(Deputy) Chair Report -January 2024
Chair Reports –January 2024 About Us Who we are Advocacy Research and policy SLOs Contact Us From the Deputy Chair… The ‘Santa Delusion’ and reading the fine print What an interesting year we have had with the transition to College-led training. This has gone remarkably smoothly at the coalface – with only a few hiccups…
Date reviewed: 21 March 2023