Annual Report - Adelaide to Outback GP Training Program

Key Result Area 4
Leadership
AOGP is implementing a best practice
vertically integrated teaching framework
within the AOGP region that is reflective of
local needs.
Key Objective #6
Engaging stakeholder groups as and when
appropriate.
Supervisor Liaison Officers
Both Dr Ben Abbot and Dr Roly Vinci
accepted their SLO roles with multiple
professional aspirations for their time
in the role. These keenness to achieve
these ambitions has helped them to
be focused when providing SLO input
over the past year. They have enjoyed
their roles, whilst concurrently gaining a
better understanding of the context of
Supervisors within the larger picture of
General Practice training through AOGP
and nationally.
The primary formal function of the SLOs
is to coordinate and run the SLO forums
held at all events involving Supervisors.
There have been numerous topics
discussed and participation in these
forums has helped shape thinking in
relation to some of the other committees
and focus groups of which they have
been involved over the course of the year
(eg delegated Training Post/Supervisor
accreditation Steering Committee,
Special Considerations Committee, RTO
Feasibility study).
One of the main forums of this kind was
held at the AOGP Education Weekend
in May 2010. This year it was held at
the Barossa Valley and was another
opportunity to continue building and
strengthening relationships between
Registrars, Supervisors and AOGP staff,
management and Board. The SLOs,
through the views expressed at this
forum, confirmed that Supervisors alike
18
felt that this Education Weekend was
one of the most successful weekends
they had attended—the site and facilities
were excellent and the presentations and
workshops were both stimulating and
diverse. The SLOs noted that the large
turnout of all the people involved with
AOGP at this event included an extra
large contingent of Supervisors. Both
Ben and Roly personally commented that
they came away feeling energised after
spending time with others who are equally
passionate about medical education.
Ben, with his rural SLO perspective, was
involved in the Special Considerations
Committee and has been impressed
with the one mindedness of the group –
despite the diversity of personnel profile in
the committee.
In 2010 Ben also represented AOGP in
discussions with SA Country Health in
relation to the newly developed contracts
for doctors, and in the latter part of the
year has been an active participant in the
workshops being run by the Rural Doctors
Workforce Agency into the development
of a new rural training pathway model.
Roly has been actively involved with the
national GP Supervisors Liaison Network
and is currently chairing this group and
some of the associated subcommittees.
As part of this role he is also a member of
the National GP Supervisors Association
(NGPSA), the national organisation set up
to represent Supervisors.
Both Roly and Ben were involved in the
review of the AOGP Placement process
and the local Reference Committee with
regard to the AOGP implementation of
the delegated Training Post/Supervisor
accreditation model. Both of the SLOs
also provided input in to the newly
developed Business Modules and also
Dr Caroline Laurence and Linda Black’s
research regarding the financial costs
involved in training medical students,
interns and Registrars.
With an even clearer understanding of the
role and the opportunities therein, Ben
and Roly, as Supervisor representatives
look forward to what they can further
contribute in 2011.
Dr Ben Abbot and Dr Roly Vinci