General Practitioner – Diagnostic Pathway Clinician

About the role

We are seeking General Practitioners to play a central role in our diagnostic pathway—bridging comprehensive cross-disciplinary assessment and specialist diagnosis.

The Role 

This is a telehealth-based diagnostic role focused on clinical reasoning, investigation planning, and pathway coordination. (Option for onsite work for Perth or Melbourne doctors)

You will see patients after pre-screening and specialist physiotherapy assessment, working from a rich, structured dataset rather than starting from scratch.

Your role is to ensure that all necessary medical workup is complete, targeted, and clinically sound prior to final diagnostic determination.

What You’ll Do 

• Review red flag screening results and identify escalation needs
• Order and interpret targeted investigations, including tailored pathology and echocardiograms, when indicated
• Exclude or identify alternative and coexisting conditions
• Prepare clear, high-quality referrals for rheumatology diagnostic consultation
• Contribute to diagnostic readiness, ensuring the specialist consult is high-value and efficient

You are not providing ongoing longitudinal care—this is a focused diagnostic pathway role.

The Clinical Model 

You’ll be working within a structured, five-phase diagnostic system, where:

• Patients arrive with validated screening, physio assessment, and initial data already completed
• Your role sits at the critical medical decision-making stage
• Rheumatologists engage only when specialist-level synthesis is required

All data is integrated into a shared digital platform, enabling pattern recognition across systems—not fragmented care.

Why This Role is Different 

• Practice high-quality medicine without time pressure → Structured consults, complete data, no rushed history-taking
• Focus on clinical reasoning, not admin → Pre-collected data + integrated documentation
• Develop expertise in a high-impact, underdiagnosed area → Connective tissue disorders, autonomic dysfunction, complex multisystem disease
• Be part of a system solving a national problem → Patients currently face ~15-year diagnostic delays
• Work flexibly via telehealth → Session-based, remote-friendly

Who This Suits 

GPs with interest in Musculoskeletal medicine, complex chronic disease, autonomic disorders (e.g. POTS) and diagnostic reasoning.

Backgrounds in sports medicine, MSK, or integrative care are highly valued.

Clinicians who enjoy:

• Pattern recognition
• Structured diagnostic frameworks
• Working within multidisciplinary teams

Engagement 

• Contractor-based role
• Flexible sessional commitment
• Competitive remuneration
• 100% telehealth work or onsite for Perth-based candidates

Impact 

You will play a critical role in reducing the 15-year diagnostic delay experienced by patients with hEDS and related disorders—ensuring that by the time they reach specialist review, the path to diagnosis is clear, efficient, and evidence-based.