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The Future Health Today Program is offering a PhD scholarship for an exceptional and talented candidate who is interested in undertaking a PhD project in the field of cardiology and/or general practice within the Future Health Today (FHT) program. A partnership between the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne and Western Health, the FHT program focusses on optimising the detection and management of chronic disease in general practice, facilitating evidence-based care and improved patient outcomes through the use of technology.

The Future Health Today Program is offering a PhD scholarship for an exceptional and talented candidate who is interested in undertaking a PhD project in the field of health informatics and/or general practice within the Future Health Today (FHT) program. A partnership between the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne and Western Health, the FHT program focusses on optimising the detection and management of chronic disease in general practice, facilitating evidence-based care and improved patient outcomes using technology.

Future Health Today is providing GPs with an innovative digital health intervention to improve patient outcomes and point-of-care practices.

To prescribe or not to prescribe - that is the question at an award winning GP19

Recent publications from the Department of General Practice

The days are getting longer and the weather warmer. This change in season, means many staff and students choose to use the University facilities late into the evening, particularly as exams approach.

The Department of General Practice is leading Melbourne Medical School’s new placement.

The Enid Beatrice Farmer PhD scholarship

Sibel Saya, received the 2019 Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Picchi Award for Excellence in Cancer Research (Population Health).

The Department of General Practice is leading a state-wide consultation for the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services to inform a new Out-of-Home Health Strategy for children and young people in statutory care.  The consultation is now OPEN. You can make your voice heard until September 2019.

After a comprehensive recruitment process the Melbourne Medical School is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Nicola Lautenschlager as the Deputy Head and Research Director.

The theme of the 11th Annual Awards Night was Navigating Mental Health in Primary Care: Stepped Care 2020 and Beyond. The evening recognised and awarded individuals and practices for their roles in teaching and research in 2018.

This is a two day course aimed at researchers, healthcare professionals and policy makers interested in the design and conduct of qualitative research interviews.

The Melbourne Medical School is delighted to officially launch a brand new initiative: the Strategic Grants for Outstanding Women. This scheme aims to assist talented female academics to negotiate some of the challenges they face in sustaining and building their careers with a view to facilitating their progression to senior academic positions.

Professor John Murtagh and Professor Neil Spike

Domestic Violence and Mental Health. We need to do better.

Nurses who wish to become Nurse Immunisers can now study on -demand via our new online interactive program

The Melbourne Medical School is a proud supporter of International Women’s Day and in 2019 we have answered the call for #BalanceforBetter through launching an exciting new initiative to support career progression in outstanding academic women.

Healthcare is a complex and rapidly changing environment and the Melbourne Medical School is poised to adapt to these real-world challenges.

A recent article by Professor Meredith Temple-Smith, Dr Jade Bilardi and Professor Jayashri Kulkarni discusses the cultural discomfort faced by women who experience miscarriage.

We all look forward to holidays. But does it ever seem that as soon as you take a break, you get sick?By Kate Stanton, University of Melbourne

Dr Laura Tarzia who received a prestigious ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award will develop an innovative website for women experiencing intimate partner sexual violence.

Australia’s first and only Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) to promote safer families will lead research into the health effects of intimate partner violence on individuals and families, and how the health sector can respond.

Dr Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis and Assoc Prof John Furler featured in March edition of Good Practice

Testing a model of stepped care for depression in general practice

DGP Honorary Associate Professor Ruth McNair acknowledged for her outstanding contribution to the Victorian community in medicine

Developing a LGBTI safe housing network to prevent homelessness and build social connection and resilience

The Department of General Practice is pleased to present our short course program for 2017.

Making primary health care more accessible for students most in need.

Assoc Professor John Furler’s research findings on the ‘Stepping Up’ program have been published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The research of John and his team highlights that supporting a stronger role for practice nurses in managing Type 2 diabetes can significantly reduce delays in starting insulin treatment.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

By Jon Emery : Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research, University of Melbourne

Young men and sexual health!

We congratulate all new Fellows on this important recognition.

The authors of a world-first study of GPs have found that girls as young as 15 are undergoing labiaplasties and other procedures, even though the medical consensus is that female genitalia do not reach maturity until around the age of 18.

Professor Kelsey Hegarty is working closely with health practitioners to recognise domestic violence as a health issue, so they can intervene and help.

Professor Kelsey Hegarty, Australia's first chair of Family Violence Prevention

Why hospital workplace design is important to nurses

The health care needs of children in statutory out-of-home care have recently been examined in a research paper released by the Victorian Parliamentary Library.

Doctors have successfully reduced risk-taking behaviour in teenagers and young people, in a world-first trial led by the University of Melbourne.

People who regularly turn to telephone helpline services are more likely to require complex medical care and are often socially isolated, a new study released for Mental Health Week 2015 has revealed.

Doctors in Victoria and New South Wales are more likely to immediately refer people with possible cancer for tests or to a specialist than those in comparable countries.