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General Practice and Public Health

A career that offers the opportunity to engage with people and focus on treating the patient, instead of just the illness.

What GPs & Public Health Professionals Do

General Practitioners are concerned with providing on-going, person-centred and holistic medical care to patients.

Public Health Medicine Professionals are concerned with caring for and ensuring the health and wellbeing of communities and other populations.

A GP is typically the first point of contact for medical and health concerns, and is responsible for identifying, coordinating and maintaining the care of a patient amongst the relevant specialists and practitioners.

Public Health Practitioners typically work to prevent large-scale disease and illness, working with communities to improve health services according to public need, research, and increasing awareness of health and wellbeing in a population.

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General Practitioners are concerned with providing on-going, person-centred and holistic medical care to patients. A GP is typically the first point of contact for medical and health concerns, and is responsible for identifying, coordinating and maintaining the care of a patient amongst the relevant specialists and practitioners.

Registration Steps to become a General Practitioner

  1. Accredited Undergraduate Medicine Degree or Postgraduate Medicine Degree
  2. General Medical Registration
  3. Three years of full-time training, including a year of hospital rotations and 18 months supervised training in accredited general practice.

Rural and Remote GPs receive the same training as urban GPs, and also additional training for taking direct responsibility for all cases presented to them, in case there is no one to refer the patient on to.

Registration Steps to become a Rural and Remote General Practitioner

  1. Accredited Undergraduate Medicine Degree or Postgraduate Medicine Degree
  2. General Medical Registration
  3. Four years of full-time training, including a year of clinical training, two years of rural and remote training, and one year of advanced specialisation training.

Public Health Medicine Professionals are concerned with caring for and ensuring the health and wellbeing of communities and other populations. They are typically both Public Health professionals and Medical Professionals, and have expertise and registration in both fields.

Example roles include working to prevent large-scale disease and illness, working with communities to improve health services according to public need, research, and increasing awareness of health and wellbeing in a population.

Registration Steps to become a Public Health Medicine Professional

  1. Accredited Undergraduate Medicine Degree or Postgraduate Medicine Degree
  2. General Medical Registration
  3. Six years of full-time training, including a year of clinical training, two years of rural and remote training, and one year of advanced specialisation training.
Skills

General Practice & Public Health Medicine provides you with the following valuable skills

Comprehensive Evaluation & Referral 100%
Duty of Care & Ethics 95%
Diagnosis, Intervention & Management of Disease 100%
Family & Community Influence on Health 100%
Holistic Knowledge & Care of Body Systems 100%
Knowledge of Indications, Risks and Interpretation of investigations 100%
Physical examination & Procedural skills 100%
Pathology 90%
Patient-Doctor Relationship Development & Communication 100%
Report Writing & Record Keeping 100%
Women's Health 95%

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