Newsletter | Issue 4 | 2020

Welcome to the festive season newsletter!As the end of the year comes close it is a time for reflection on the 2020 successes, challenges, and future of where we want to be in 2021.

The theme of the 12th Annual Awards Night was Primary Care Reform: the Next 10 Years. The evening recognised and awarded individuals and practices for their roles in teaching and research in 2019.

The department says farewell to Bernie Cooper who has been in the department since 2001.

Farewell to Associate Professor John Furler, after 24 years of service to the Department of General Practice

Department staff receive three Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Staff Excellence Awards

Magdalena Simonis, Senior Honorary Research Fellow and VicReN founding member is leading women’s health advocacy and supporting women in medicine

Dr Brent Venning has been accepted to the MACH-Track, a new program that allows promising recently-qualified doctors to integrate career development in research, including a PhD, with completion of postgraduate specialist or generalist training.

Associate Professor and GP, Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, gave a Moth-style talk as part of the 2020 Melbourne Medical School Research Symposium. Her story is sure to inspire medical students and doctors to pursue research as part of their career and it provides poignant insight into the important role of general practitioners in the community

A recent article by Alice Yu, Dr Jade Bilardi and Prof Meredith Temple-Smith has been published in Pursuit.

Towards a health promoting university is a study aimed at better understanding how Australian universities can best promote student health and wellbeing.

"Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!"

Recent publications by the Department of General Practice