Annual Report - Adelaide to Outback GP Training Program

The Business of Gneeral Practice:
Module 1: Practice Management Basics
• General Practice Business Structures
• Finance 1
• Negotiating Contracts
Module 2: Sustainable General Practice
• Finance 2- Part 1
• Finance 2- Part 2
• Managing People
• Strategic Business Planning
• Quality and Risk Management
Online Learning
An area of special interest to AOGP
in 2010 was online learning, and this
was reflected through the dedication of
resources and personnel into a review
and the development of an On-line
Learning Enhancement project. Dr
Michael Notley, in his capacity as an
AOGP ME, is responsible for this portfolio
of work. In 2010 he was charged with
the responsibility for exploring ways to
improve AOGP’s use of GPRime, and
to integrate the current online learning
opportunities. Late last year is was agreed
that AOGP will use the Moodle platform,
enabling integration of already existing
(and new) in-practice learning resources
with newly developed interactive activities.
This aim is to ensure the suite of on-line
tools is user-friendly and easily accessible
for Registrars, Supervisors, practices
and educators alike. This will be actively
progressed in 2011.
ATSI Training
2010 planning of the ATSI Health
Immersion training, for junior Registrars
undertaking their first 6 months of
training, resulted in a more collaborative
approach that increased the involvement
of key stakeholders (eg Divisions of
General Practice, Aboriginal Community
Controlled Health Organisations etc). It
was determined that a regional balance
of training was required to ensure existing
relationships could be enhanced whilst
simultaneously taking the opportunity to
establish new relationships within the
Aboriginal community. To complement
previous rural based training, the most
recent ATSI Immersion training was
organised around the Kaurna lands in
Adelaide, involving the inspirational and
esteemed Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue. The
ATSI Team continues to seek to improve
the quality and diversity of the training
to ensure it meets Curricula learning
objectives as well as the specific learning
needs of the participants. It simultaneously
works hard to be relational and community
building. AOGP is very fortunate that Kali
Hayward, an AOGP alumnus, has agreed
to join AOGP as an ME in 2011. Kali is a
Yamitji woman from the Warnman peoples
of Western Australia. She has been
contracted educator with the ATSI team
since 2009 but at the end of 2010 agreed
to formally become a staff member and as
part of her duties share the ATSI portfolio
with Dr David Dunn. Welcome Kali.
The Person-Program-Post Placement
Process
Core stakeholder representatives were
provided the opportunity to review
the AOGP placement process in
2010. They confirmed that AOGP’s
placement process appropriately takes
into account personal, professional,
training and regional considerations from
all parties when determining Registrar
allocation. They also affirmed that the
Special Consideration Committee, in
its consideration of applications from
Registrars who believe they have new
circumstances that need to be considered
during the placement process, and
which is independently chaired by Dr
Deb Turnbull, conducts its work in a fair,
equitable and transparent manner.
2010 also saw a national change in
training requirements for general pathway
Registrars in GP training. In the second
semester AOGP also successfully
integrated into its placement framework,
the requirements of the new GPET policy,
with regard to the expanded options for
General Pathway Registrars to meet their
outer metro and/or rural obligations. This
was achieved without disadvantage to the
rural regions of AOGP.
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