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Teaching Plan: Health Education, Brief Intervention
And Motivational Interviewing

This teaching plan focuses on developing General Practice registrars’ skills in delivering effective health education to promote health, wellbeing, and behavior change, a core competency in the RACGP and ACRRM training curricula. It highlights the importance of brief interventions and motivational interviewing in providing evidence-based health information while considering sociocultural factors and health literacy.

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Date reviewed: 10 July 2026

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Teaching Plan: Preventive Health And Screening

This teaching plan emphasises the vital role of preventive healthcare in general practice, focusing on illness prevention, early disease detection, and health promotion. It highlights the importance of addressing health disparities, particularly for disadvantaged groups, and equips GP registrars with the necessary knowledge and skills for preventive health assessments and population screening.


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Date reviewed: 19 July 2026

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Teaching Plan: Follow Up And Safety Netting

This teaching plan focuses on the importance of follow-up and safety netting in general practice, essential components of continuity of care and patient safety. It addresses key concepts, including the medicolegal responsibilities of follow-up and strategies for managing clinical uncertainty, tailored for GP registrars early in their training.

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Date reviewed: 02 July 2026

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Teaching Plan: Rational Antibiotic Prescribing

This teaching plan addresses the critical issue of antimicrobial resistance, emphasising the role of GP supervisors in guiding registrars to prescribe antibiotics judiciously. It highlights strategies such as targeted teaching, feedback, and role-modeling, aligned with the Choosing Wisely Australia campaign to promote rational prescribing practices.

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Date reviewed: 19 July 2026

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Guide: Practice-Based Teaching

 

Discover practical strategies and expert guidance in our Practice-Based Teaching Guide. Enhance your teaching and supervision skills with our comprehensive resources.

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Date reviewed: 02 July 2026

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LGBTQIA+ Health and Inclusive Healthcare​

This collection of resources aim to support GP supervisors in their teaching and supervision of registrars who are providing medical services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary, queer, intersex, asexual and other (LGBTQIA+) patients in general practice. 

Diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics are all included in the LGBTQIA+ acronym. A Standard for Sex, Gender, Variations of Sex Characteristics and Sexual Orientation Variables has been produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in 2020 and provides a useful starting point of terms for clinicians to gain an understanding of the appropriate terminology.

The Victorian Government LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Language Guide expands on the above definitions

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Teaching LGBTQIA+ inclusive healthcare provides confidence and competence in your registrar’s ability to deliver appropriate care. A GP or practice nurse may be the first person someone talks to about their emerging diverse sexual orientation or gender identity, and this could happen at any age. Having a health professional who affirms their identity can be very therapeutic.

There are two major reasons for making the effort to know about an individual patient’s LGBTQIA+ status in clinical practice:

It provides a more holistic context about the life of that person, which is often desired by patients.
There are major health disparities for LGBTQIA+ people that require our attention and care.

LGBTQIA+ inclusive care requires a whole of practice approach, so that the person’s journey through the clinic is safe. Encouraging disclosure of LGBTQIA+ identities starts at the front door, as they need to feel they will be acknowledged and supported. This is particularly important for LGBTQIA+ patients who may have experienced negative attitudes from healthcare providers in the past.

In helping to create an inclusive environment, there are a range of readily available Australian tools to assist. One example is the Rainbow Tick, an accreditation program and framework for planning and implementing organisational change to facilitate LGBTQIA+ inclusive services. Another is the Pride in Health online benchmarking. Intersex community organisations offer the ‘Yellow Tick’ to improve understanding of the health needs of people with intersex variations.

  • Contraception, fertility, and pregnancy
  • Sexual Health
  • STIs
  • Smoking, Alcohol, and Drug Use
  • Cancer screening
  • Mental health

Date reviewed: 02 July 2026

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

GP supervisors play a valuable and important role in promoting and supporting the cultural competence of their learners in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

GP supervisors and the wider practice team should strive to create a culturally safe workplace and learning environment.
This page links to resources specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

Resources
The key summary resource is the GPSA Guide to General Practice Training in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.

Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and Their Health
Identifying Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Status
Clinical Yarning
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Assessments
Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease
Best practice Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isander health – part 1Webinar and Podcast
Best practice Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health - part 2Webinar and Podcast
Clinical YarningWebinar and Podcast
Culturally Safe GP Registrar Supervision – Decolonisation and a Strengths-Based ApproachWebinar and Podcast
Teaching Yourself and Your Registrar About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HealthWebinar and Podcast

FAQ
Telehealth and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patientsWebinar and FAQ
Telehealth with Aboriginal patients who are hard of hearingFAQ
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Cultural Safety for Health Professionals
Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status
RACGP Five Steps resource
Languages examples of the first nations people of Australia

Date reviewed: 02 July 2026

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GP Supervisory Relationship Measure

 

The General Practice Supervisory Relationship Measure (GP-SRM) is designed to measure the quality of the relationship between general practice supervisors and registrars.  It measures the supervisory relationship from the supervisor’s perspective and is completed by the supervisor in regard to an individual registrar. The GP-SRMS was developed for use in the Australian general practice sector.

The GP-SRMS provides a measure of:
• Safe base – the extent to which the supervisory relationship is enthusiastic, open, and collaborative.
• Supervisor investment – the efforts of the supervisor to support the registrar through resources, preparation, and being interested and invested in the registrar’s development.
• Registrar professionalism – perceptions of how competent, responsible, organised, and committed a registrar is.

Using the results effectively:
• Remember that scores reflect the supervisor’s perception of the relationship.
• Invite the registrar to share their perception of the relationship.
• Supervisors who are prepared to listen, validate the perceptions of a registrar, and accept criticism will build more effective alliances.
• Treat a problem as something which can be resolved together, rather than being the sole responsibility of the supervisor or registrar.
• Scale scores are more reliable than individual items.

Introduction

A set of interim guidelines have been designed to provide GP supervisors with sufficient information to begin using the GP-SRM in clinical practice with registrars.  It is important to note that these guidelines have been developed based on principles of effective supervision drawn from psychological practice, and research into how best to use the instrument in the general medical context is ongoing.  Similarly, caution is advised when considering the distribution of scale scores, which is based on a validation sample rather than a representative sample of supervisors reporting on registrars. Download the Interim Guidelines HERE.

To download and use the General Practice Supervisory Relationship Measure (Supervisors) click the button below

Download GP Supervisor Relationship Measure

 

If you have feedback about the GP Supervisory Relationship Measure we would really like to hear from you, email admin@gpsa.org.au

 

Date reviewed: 02 July 2026

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