Dealing with dental disease in general practice
The first week in August is Dental Health Week, so we’re also taking a look at teeth. As GP’s, particularly rural GPs, we have patients presenting as a result of dental disease almost on a […]
Articles by Ronda Gurney
Dealing with Exam Anxiety
Exams are the performance of your life that will make or break your future. The months leading up to the exam are essential to gathering facts and knowledge and forming good habits. The weeks leading […]
Indigenous Health Resources
RVTS registrars work in Aboriginal Medical Services and rural and remote practices all over Australia, working in a broad range of environments, settings, services and health care delivery models and systems. A large proportion of […]
RVTS at WONCA
Doctors who work in rural and remote communities have all descended on Cairns for the 14th World Rural Health Conference. With such an exciting array of speakers on offer, it’s tough to choose which session […]
Syncope: brought to light
“Syncope is a sudden, transient, self-limiting loss of consciousness associated with an inability to maintain postural tone”. In this webinar excerpt, Associate Professor Geoff Couser discusses an approach to patients presenting with syncope. Geoff (FACEM […]
Cultural Diversity
This month, Dr Sonia Singh discusses cultural communication in general practice. Dr Singh co-ordinated a session at the last RVTS workshop on “Cultural Diversity”. During the session, consults were presented by registrars in a traditional […]
What is Cardiovascular Risk, and how is it calculated?
Understanding absolute cardiovascular risk is vital in clinical decision making. Taking various risk factors into consideration and identifying those at increased cardiovascular risk can improve the health outcomes for your patients. So how do you […]
Teaching Clinical Reasoning to GP registrars
There have been a lot of discussions recently on clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning: The process by which practitioners collect and process information. Clinical reasoning is a skill which can be learned, and taught. It’s an elusive concept, and […]
BP diagnosis and management
In this webinar excerpt with John Kelly, we discuss HYPERTENSION. The Heart Foundation’s latest Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of hypertension in adults have some changes which are highlighted. John discusses the diagnosis of hypertension, […]
Explaining a diagnosis in an understandable way
How do you explain a diagnosis to a patient in a concise, understandable, succinct way? During a recent discussion with a registrar, a few universal tactics were discussed: find out what the patient already knows about the […]