RVTS Office Closure
RVTS will close 5:00pm AEDT on Tuesday 24th December 2024 and will reopen on Thursday 2nd January 2025.
From all the team at RVTS we wish you all a safe and happy festive season!
We deal with uncertainty every day in general practice. This month, we review 5 cases illustrating various reasons or things that may be contributing to uncertainty in general practice. This is part 2 of a 3 part series, where we listen in on a webinar with Marlene Pearce, a GP based on the Sunshine Coast,...
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We deal with uncertainty every day in general practice. Depending on where you work and how long you’ve worked there, most of the workload in general practice in Australia is managing chronic disease. For the remaining patients who present with new symptoms, diagnostic uncertainty abounds. Many patients who attend general practice do not have an...
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This month we share another webinar excerpt on Oral Health – the focus today is on oral soft tissue lesions. This is the third part of a 3 part series with Dr Ioan Jones, senior clinician and clinical educator with the Oral Health Services in Tasmania. Ioan is passionate about educating general practitioners about oral...
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It’s the beginning of the academic year, and the year stretches before us like a blank canvas. Now is a perfect time to consider your “Learning Plan”. A learning plan is a bit like a road map: with the “map” you can identify your start and end points, stops on the way, and the best...
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Happy New Year! It’s that time of the year when we reflect on the last 12 months, and plan for the next 365 days. It’s always a good time to press the pause button and see where we’ve been and where we’re heading: re-evaluate, re-align and re-set some goals. At RVTS we can look...
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If you search the internet for “Australia’s most dangerous job”, you will find agriculture, forestry and fishing listed as the most dangerous industries in the country. Many RVTS registrars work in just these sorts of communities, and they need to be prepared for any eventuality. This is why all remote RVTS registrars attend a “Farm...
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This month we share another webinar excerpt on Oral Health – this time on Dental Trauma. This is Part 2 of a 3 part series with Dr Ioan Jones, senior clinician and clinical educator with the Oral Health Services in Tasmania. Ioan is passionate about educating general practitioners about Oral Disease, as he fully appreciates...
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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 daily basis. For most of us, our undergraduate teaching barely touched on problems in the mouth, and it’s certainly an...
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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 up to the exam are essential to prepare mentally. On the day of the exam, you need to focus like...
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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 to miss, as you can unfortunately only be at one place at a time. Various RVTS Medical Educators will be...
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“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 MEd) is a senior staff specialist in emergency medicine at the Royal Hobart Hospital and a Clinical Consultant with Ambulance...
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Please note that this episode is more than seven years old. Some content may no longer be current best practice. 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...
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