Podcasts
GP special issue - President RACGP and MJA co-author Dr Michael Wright
Dr Michael Wright
This week is the General Practice issue of the MJA. One of the authors featured is Dr Michael Wright, the President of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He is a co-author on the paper "The impact of patient enrolment in primary care on continuity and quality of care around the world, 2014–2024, and lessons for Australia: a scoping review."
Voice of the GP Ep 7 2022: Associate Professor Louise Stone
Associate Professor Louise Stone
Voice of the GP Episode 7: 21 November 2022. Associate Professor Louise Stone is a GP, researcher, and medical educator. She is a vocal advocate for her GP colleagues through her articles at InSight+, other media and her Twitter account, @GPswampwarrior. Her new coauthored book on sexual abuse between doctors is in the works. For more information about the book and how you can help make it open access, visit ofdoctorsbydoctors.com ... With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 36 mins, 4...
Voice of the GP Ep 6 2022: Dr Bailey Dunn, John Street Medical
Dr Bailey Dunn
Voice of the GP Episode 6: 26 September 2022. Dr Bailey Dunn is a Canadian who did her medical school and training in Australia, falling in love with Tasmania. She and her husband bought John Street Medical in Kingston, Tasmania just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. She introduced burnout prevention strategies which have saved the sanity and health of her GPs, given her patients more options, and have turned the practice into a financially viable proposition. With MJA news and online editor,...
Voice of the GP Ep 5 2022: Clinical Professor Karen Price, President of the RACGP
Dr Karen Price
Voice of the GP Episode 5: 29 August 2022. Dr Karen Price is a GP, and President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She is also an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Monash University. She talks about her term as President, priorities for general practice reform going forward and her reflections on what the GP theme song should be. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 17 mins, 27 secs.
Voice of the GP Ep 4 2022: Dr Kean-Seng Lim
Dr Kean-Seng Lim
Voice of the GP Episode 4: 22 August 2022. Dr Kean-Seng Lim has been a GP in Mt Druitt in Sydney's outer west for almost three decades. He is dedicated to prevention, and has a passion for delivering high-quality care both face-to-face and via digital technologies. He has just been given the AMA's 2022 Excellence in Health Care award. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 35 mins, 06 secs.
Voice of the GP Ep 3 2022: Dr Lilon Bandler
Dr Lilon Bandler
Voice of the GP Episode 3: 25 July 2022. Dr Lilon Bandler is a GP, medical educator and researcher, with a long history of working with and developing education programs for Indigenous medical students and practitioners. Her new enterprise is collaborating with the Wayside Chapel in King's Cross to provide health services for Wayside visitors. 21 mins, 17 secs.
Voice of the GP Ep 2 2022: Dr Jillann Farmer
Dr Jillann Farmer
Voice of the GP Episode 2: 20 June 2022. Dr Jillann Farmer is a Brisbane-based GP, who also happens to be the former Medical Director of the United Nations. Dr Farmer talks about her experiences managing the UN's response to Ebola, Zika, COVID-19 and the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, as well as her joy at being back in general practice, despite the current challenges of the profession. Accompanying article in InSight+ can be found here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 23 min...
Voice of the GP Ep 1 2022: Dr Alisha Dorrigan
Dr Alisha Dorrigan
Voice of the GP Episode 1: 23 May 2022. Dr Alisha Dorrigan is a general practitioner, writer, and medical editor based in Sydney. She talks about what inspires her in general practice and the challenges facing primary care in the current economic and political environment. Dr Dorrigan's latest article for InSight+ can be found here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 17 mins, 35 secs.
Continuity of care in general practice, with Prof Mark Harris
Professor Mark Harris
Vol 216, Issue 9: 16 May 2022. Professor Mark Harris is Scientia Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at UNSW Sydney. He talks about continuity of care in general practice to accompany his coauthored editorial, and Reed et al research, published by the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 15 mins, 33 secs.
Fixing Australian primary care, with Prof Claire Jackson
Professor Claire Jackson
Vol 216, Issue 8: 2 May 2022. Professor Claire Jackson is a GP, and Director of the Centre for Health System Reform and Integration at the University of Queensland. She discusses the big problems facing general practice, and possible solutions, to accompany her MJA Perspective. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 23 mins, 39 secs.