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Ensure your internship survival 4 Dec 2021: The skills you actually need to survive and thrive as an intern are the soft skills…the ones that you don’t get taught at medical school. Communication, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and time-mana ...
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Continuous learning for your mind, your body, your soul and your career 4 Dec 2021: Medical and dental healthcare practitioners often find themselves shouldering a towering workload with demanding responsibilities2, which can often lead to lethargy, lack of enthusiasm to invest in th ...
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AHPRA reports drop in notifications 4 Dec 2021: 5,516 notifications were lodged with AHPRA last year, a decrease of 229 from 2019/20. Medical practitioners made up 15.6% of all registered health practitioners with 129,066 now in the profession. An ...
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Independent Medical Exams - Conducting assessments for third parties 30 Nov 2021: Independent Medical Examinations (IMEs) play a crucial role in ensuring individuals receive a fair and unbiased health assessment in cases of injury or illness. As registered healthcare practition ...
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PSR identifies instant prescriptions as a concern 30 Nov 2021: The PSR observed that prescriptions of expensive medications that usually require a detailed patient history... were being prescribed after only brief interactions and a series of text messages.
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Safety, Quality, and improvements in Diagnosis 30 Nov 2021: Key functions of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare include: developing national safety and quality standards, developing clinical care standards to improve the implementati ...
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Practitioner wellbeing during Coronageddon 30 Nov 2021: A reflection on the current challenges that this second year of the COVID-19 outbreak has brought for your practice and exploration of strategies to help you care for self while caring for others, to ...
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Advice for GPs: Regulatory changes for nicotine vaping products 30 Nov 2021: Nicotine Vaping Products as Prescription only Medicine for Smoking Cessation. From 1 October 2021, changes were introduced to nicotine prescribing in Australia. The Poison Standard clarifies the regul ...
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Am I an employee or an independent contractor? 30 Nov 2021: When starting a new job, you can be engaged to perform work in a number of capacities. It is important you understand the nature of the engagement that you are entering into with the other party. It ...
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Job Readiness - Interview preparation 29 Nov 2021: Job Readiness’ focuses on the interview process and how you can use it to successfully achieve your career goals with responses to possible questions, tips on interviewing remotely and ways to make a ...
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