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∗ Black Rock Cafe ⇒ a must while on the YP. Home cooked meals on the beach. Only open Sunday.
Sensational food. You should book. BYO on the beach. 8823 2991.
Moonta
∗ Seagate ⇒ nice food, good for free dinners from the YPDGP.
∗ Moonta Ice-cream shop ⇒ just out of Moonta, another must. Best ice cream. Good savoury pancakes
which are generous in size and good coffees.
Port Pirie
∗ Family Hotel (on the main road) ⇒ cheap and really good food. Good schnitzels & big serves.
∗ John Pirie Motor Inn ⇒ good steaks, not cheap so it’s a great place for CPD dinners. (Almost the only
place in the country where steaks are cooked as you order them. Most others are well done regardless of
order.)
Port Augusta
∗ Standpipe ⇒ fantastic Indian food. All you can eat $30 {and I mean ALL you can eat; each time I’ve been
I’ve gorged myself}, but it’s a 6 person minimum. If you haven’t heard of this one you haven’t been to the
country yet.
∗ The Hotel Augusta ⇒ reasonably priced good pub food.
∗ The Hannaville ⇒ reasonably priced good pub food.
∗ Vince’s pizza ⇒ really good pizza.
∗ Arid lands ⇒ great place for afternoon tea and an interesting place to walk around.
∗ Wendy’s ⇒ same as anywhere else, but there are offers on the back of the Woolies dockets (2 hotdogs
$5 and buy one get one free milkshake). Good for lunch.
Whyalla
∗ Sundowner ⇒ 1kg steak challenge. You get a t-shirt, but only ≥XL sizes. Really good salad bar (like most
country pubs).
∗ The Vegas ⇒ good pub meals and AMAZING chips & salad bar.
Enjoy your time in the country. I did.
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On your first day of your hrh, paeds, gp rotation (dot points)
GPs
− Find out how your GP likes to operate, what medical management program they use and orientate
yourself around the clinic. Find where the sphygmos, suturing material, Immunisations,
thermometers and all the basic stuff is hidden. This will make your life a lot easier and also make you
look less foolish on week 4 when you bumble around the room trying to find the right equipment
− Also establish early if your GP will want you to just observe them, to do your own consults then
present patients or a combination of the two. If you are doing a lot of observing but not a lot of
doing, then suggest if you can maybe see the next patient. It’s the country, so even if you don’t know
the full story you will still learn much better by doing than being a passenger.
− Find out when your GP starts ward-rounds, then be at the hospital at an easy to meet place 5
minutes before this. If you are late, they will go without you and you will look and feel
unprofessional. If you will be rotating through several different GPs every week (like in Port Lincoln)
between your group write down the start times for all the GPs so you will quickly compile a list and
no-one will look all that foolish.
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