Readers of the KIdocs.org blog will be aware of my feelings re: courses for rural doctors. There are a plethora of ‘alphabet soup’ or ‘merit badge’ courses out there for entry-level as a rural registrar or doctor – ALS, APLS, ALSO, ATLS(EMST) etc. As career progresses, we are required to maintain continuing professional development. Most […]
Last year I was amazed to discover that over 50% of my rural GP-anaesthetic colleagues stated that they had been called out to some form of prehospital incident in the previous 12 months. I think we need to be very clear that the pre-hospital environment is VERY different to that of the resus bay or ED,
Rural Docs ‘Value Adding’ Pre-Hospital? Read More »
One of the most useful things for me in the past two years has been using FOAMed to change my practice. As a rural doctor, my expertise intersects spheres of primary care, emergency medicine, resuscitation, obstetrics and anaesthesia. I don’t hold out to be an expert in any of these per se – indeed, the expertise
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Well the “Masterclass in Rural Medicine” on Kangaroo Island is over, allowing pause for reflection. The brief was to highlight FOAMed material relevant to the rural clinician, using short interactive presentations and hands-on skills stations. Whilst feedback was generally positive, I am always looking for ways to improve and have had some chance to think about
An Annual Rural Masterclass? Read More »
OK, last post I mentioned the need to bring more academic rigeur to the exciting world of FOAMed for GPs. There are some people doing great stuff out there using social media- but I feel that as a group, primary care research tends to be biased towards either ‘research lite’ topics (such as workforce planning,
FOAMed & Research for GPs – Which College? Read More »