Chair’s Report September 2021 GPSA Chair, Dr Nicole Higgins Are we willing to be taken for granted ? In our negotiations with RACGP, ACRRM and

NAIDOC Week 2021 NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Chair’s Report July 2021 Supervisors are Superheros Thank you. Life is pretty tough at the moment being a GP, let alone being a supervisor. On

Chair’s Report May/June 2021   More than a Word. Reconciliation Takes Action Reconciliation means ‘coming together’. This is a time for us to reflect on

Chair’s Report May 2021   The Devil is Always in the Detail… GPSA welcomes the return of training to the colleges. Supervisors are the experts

Chair’s Report April 2021   Like you all, my practice has welcomed a new cohort of registrars and medical students and celebrated registrars achieving fellowship.

Exploring the financial costs and revenue associated with teaching and supervision in general practice     Teaching practices and supervisors are critical in the delivery

Chair’s Report September 2020 Nothing should be decided about us, without us GPSA …..the expert in the supervision of our next generation of family doctors

RTO Network Chair Report How did we go from “seamless transition” to disruption? GP17 seems so long ago. In his annual address the Federal Health

Chair’s Report June 2020 2020 will be reflected upon through many lenses for years to come. Through a positive lense COVID 19 has grounded supervisors,

Chair Report May 2020 GPSA helping you with COVID19 support resources We are now more than a month into the ‘Black Swan’ event that has

Have a say on medical workforce strategy   Do you have an interest in helping to shape planning for the future medical workforce? As part

Majority of rural GPs are supervisors: study More than half of respondents based in rural areas to the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life

Val’s legacy to help close the gap It was the great hope of Moree elder Val Dahlstrom that a better understanding of Indigenous culture and

Case Study: “I got sent home and didn’t get paid” Rebecca* a GPT4 registrar arrives for work as rostered to discover that the GP training

Has your practice caught up with changes to personal/carer’s leave? The Full Federal Court  handed down on 21 August 2019 a decision that has landed

Novel corona virus distracts from bushfire devastation   The novel corona virus now occupying our thoughts internationally has shifted much focus away from those who

Celebrating the achievements of our members It’s time to hang up the “out of office” sign at GPSA and wish all our members a Merry

Help build a clinical training framework A best practice clinical learning framework is being developed specifically for general practice. Rather than having a quality framework

Have a say on the future of GP supervision funding “Nothing about us without us” was the mantra Dr Louise Stone, a former Senior Medical

Is there a recipe for a good GP supervisor? What makes a good GP supervisor? It’s a great question for a robust dinner conversation among

Chair’s report – November 2019 It’s been a busy time since I last wrote to you. RMA19 and GP19 have come and gone. Glen Wallace (GPSA

Practice manager brings peers’ voice to GPSA board Victorian practice manager Leonie Chamberlain has become the first practice manager appointed to the board of General

How to help registrars talk to vaccine-hesitant parents With about 30 years of GP supervision under his belt, and as developer of the vaccine safety