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Born and bred in WA, I studied medicine at the University of Western Australia (UWA). I now work as a GP in Perth.

Aside from my clinical practice, I am passionate about general practice training and medical education, having previously served as a Registrar Liaison Officer (RLO) for our state’s GP training provider, WAGPET, and attended multiple outreach events at our tertiary hospitals representing WAGPET and discussing the GP training program.Since attaining fellowship, I have performed External Clinical Teaching (ECT) visits for WAGPET and I regularly assist with the RACGP Multi Mini Interviews (MMIs) as an assessor.

In addition, I am a Sessional Academic at Curtin Medical School (having previously tutored at UWA), and have also been involved in the UWA clinical mentor program for three years.

Life is crazy busy—I juggle five kids and an amazing husband (plus I try to squeeze in a few Pilates sessions each week).

I love my job and feel very blessed to share in the lives of my patients.

I am a GP registrar in my second training term. I’m originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland but I’m now based in Gippsland and working in Moe.

I completed my intern and residency year in Northern Ireland before moving to Australia in August 2015 to work in Emergency Departments (ED) across several sites in Hunter New England Health, NSW.

I began my GP training in February 2018 as a hospital-based registrar working in Latrobe Regional Hospital in Traralgon.

I am currently undertaking GP training at Tanjil Place Medical Centre in Moe.My interests include: women's health, sexual health, mental health and aged care.

I currently work as a teaching associate at Monash School of Rural Health and, as of next year, I will undertake a training in medical education with my Regional Training Organisation (RTO), EVGPT.

I am a RACGP urban GP Registrar working in Aldinga, a beachside town 45 kilometres south of Adelaide. My journey into GP training began during internship when, inspired by the diversity of general practice, I applied for the AGPT program. I thoroughly enjoyed all my internship rotations. I loved the complexity of general medicine, the fast-paced nature of the emergency department, the challenges of haematology and the joy of paediatrics. I realised only general practice would allow me to utilise the skills I had learnt in each of these areas, on a daily basis. The opportunity to build long-term relationships with patients and the upstream approach to disease further reinforced my desire to apply for GP training.

I developed my special interest in women’s health whilst undertaking a six-month obstetrics and gynaecology resident position at Flinders Medical Centre. Utilising this experience, I applied to the Obstetric Shared Care Program and I now deliver antenatal care to women in the community.

Prior to venturing out into community general practice training, I completed my Extended Skills Training in paediatrics and emergency medicine. My first community placement was in Glenelg and at the beginning of 2020 I moved to Aldinga Medical Centre. I love being a GP Registrar and I love working at Aldinga so much so that I will be staying on at this practice for 2021. I expect to sit the written RACGP fellowship exams in February 2021.

When I am not consulting or studying, I am working as a Registrar Liaison Officer (RLO) for GPEx. Through this role, I provide advocacy and support for other registrars. RLOs are also involved in regular meetings with GPEx with the aim of continually reviewing and improving the training experience for registrars.

I am most excited to take on the advisor role with the FGP network. I feel that general practice has a lot to offer but unfortunately is sometimes overlooked by junior doctors due to lack of exposure to quality general practice terms. There is an opportunity to make a profound difference in patients’ lives as a GP, to slow the progression of disease, to tackle preventable illness and to keep patients in their home with their loved ones. It is a career that is both challenging and rewarding and I fervently look forward to supporting the next generation in their path towards general practice training.

I’m currently a GP registrar completing a hospital year at the Lyell McEwin Hospital. I am a husband and father of two girls. I chose GP as my end career goal as I am a proud advocate of the specialty as I believe it provides the ultimate combination of medicine-to-life balance. Prior to medicine, I worked as a medical scientist in Cardiovascular research.

I'm Evan, one of the GPRA Representatives at the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NAHLN). I've always had an interest in general practice since having great experiences on placement in Adelaide Clinics, Broken Hill Indigenous Health Centre and working with the RFDS. I love talking to patients and having the continuity of care that GP offers, as well as the more flexible lifestyle allowing travel and subspecialisation. After training I want to work as a rural GP in a Canadian ski field.

I'm a young doctor interested in rural health. I grew up on a vineyard and have worked on farms and in wineries in four countries. I have too many interests to maintain a healthy life-work balance, though I figure that working as a GP is my best bet at one day fulfilling my dream of owning an animal sanctuary next to a vineyard and vegetable garden.

I’m a first year RACGP registrar. My interests are mental health, refugee and migrant health and women's health. I grew up in Keith SA, where my mum was the rural GP there for most of my childhood. My parents moved from Lebanon before I was born, and my culture and spiritually diverse experiences as a Muslim Arab has shaped my passion for holistic health care. My life is built around one purpose which is to serve those around me through positive definitions and actions of health and advocacy.

I’m a junior doctor heading into a career in general practice. Whilst my goal of being a GP has been years in the making, I have only recently cultivated my interest in working rurally. I feel very lucky to have found this career pathway—in no other medical career can you get the same breadth and depth of experience, whilst striking that perfect balance of living near both a beach and a wine region.

Sonu is currently an RMO at Fiona Stanley Hospital and the FGP JMO representative for the hospital. He has had a keen interest in general practice since early on in his training, and was involved with the General Practice Students Network while a medical student. Through his time at the hospital, he has developed interest in emergency medicine, paediatrics and mental health, and wishes to hone these interests as a GP in the near future.Sonu values the variety and breadth of practice GP has to offer, as well as the lifestyle options. He would be happy to be a point of contact for JMOs wanting to consider or know more about General Practice and training pathways.

Jess is an intern at Royal Perth Hospital. She comes from a rural background, and has her sights set on becoming a rural generalist somewhere at the top of Australia. She likes swimming in gorges, mangos and BBQs with friends, and hopes to combine the GP life with all of the above.

Hi! My name is Casey and I am an intern working in my home region, Gippsland.

From when I started studying medicine I had always planned to enter a career in general practice, it was only later that I developed a special interest in palliative care.

We are very fortunate in the regional sector to have the option of rotating through general practice as an intern.

I have found working at Heyfield Medical Centre a fantastic opportunity to better understand what a career in general practice might be like, and how much it differs from practicing in the hospital.

I feel that my general practice rotation as an intern has been an even more rewarding experience than it was as a student. The brilliant support and supervision remains, but I think that the difference lies in having more clinical responsibility for patients and more capacity for decision making.

I have found my rotation at HMC very rewarding so far, and I would encourage anyone who is considering a career in general practice to see if they can access a rotation in a clinic as a junior doctor.

For myself, it has reiterated that this is a career path I am passionate about pursuing. I am delighted that in pursuing general practice I will be able to also train in palliative care, and be supported to work across both specialties.