Newsletter | Issue 1 | March 2017

Welcome to our March edition of the Department newsletter.

The Teaching and Learning Team at the Department of General Practice held its annual GP Training Day event with the attendance of over 65 GP Supervisors.

Professor Kelsey Hegarty is developing a technological tool to assist women suffering physical, emotional and / or sexual abuse

Making primary health care more accessible for students most in need

Dr Sandra Davidson’s exciting new research uses a new mobile phone app to improve the mental health of taxi drivers.

The Diabetes and Cardiometabolic research group in the Department of General Practice has recently published the outcomes of the Stepping Up trial in the BMJ. The trial suggests practice nurses can play a stronger role in optimising medications for people with diabetes.

A randomised controlled trial of the WoTWoD program in Melbourne and Sydney general practices to test the program’s effectiveness to improve the cultural appropriateness of mainstream general practice and to improve chronic disease care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Overcoming disadvantage of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients through culturally sensitive communication training for health professional students and practitioners

Primary Care Diabetes Society of Australia – Diabetes care for all, by all

Meet Tim Wittick, Mei Lyn Tan and Alison Pung - our new academic GP registrars; and Jasmeen Oberoi - Research Support Officer

Meet our new MD Year 4 Research Project Students

Meet our new PhD and Master Students

Exciting scholarship opportunity to commence your PhD in May 2017

PC4 announces 2017 Symposium - Establishing partnerships, creating opportunities.

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