The GP Show – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Dr. Sarah Whitburn is the Medical Director of Sexual Health Victoria, Chair of the RACGP Sexual and Reproductive Health Special Interest Group, and a Senior Lecturer in Sexual Health at the University of Melbourne.  Her clinical and advocacy interests span STIs, unplanned pregnancy, genital health, menopause care, and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) training. She is passionate about supporting health professionals to deliver great sexual and reproductive healthcare and enabling equitable access to care for patients.

Connect with the RACGP Sexual and Reproductive Health Special Interest Group:  Join the community (open to all RACGP members) by emailing gpsi@racgp.org.au. The group offers peer case discussion, newsletters, and webinars covering topics including PrEP, sexual pain, heavy menstrual bleeding, and more.

Resources

•          MAGIC App — National Cervical Screening Program guidelines (searchable): search "National Cervical Screening Program MAGIC App"

•          Australian STI Management Guidelines — sti.guidelines.org.au 

•          ASHM (Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine) — PrEP and DoxyPEP decision aids: ashm.org.au 

•          FSRH Medical Eligibility Criteria (UK Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, updated December 2025): fsrh.org 

•          RANZCOG Contraception Guidelines: ranzcog.edu.au 

•          Australasian Menopause Society — clinical resources and find-a-practitioner: menopause.org.au 

•          Sexual and Reproductive Health Australia (SRHA) / AusLARC scholarship: srha.org.au 

Timestamps

00:00 — Introduction & acknowledgement of country

01:00 — Guest introduction: Dr. Sarah Whitburn

02:56 — Contraception: Pill Choice, Medical Eligibility Criteria Considerations, PBS Updates

12:18 — The menopausal transition: contraception vs. MHT, managing bleeding on MHT

23:10 — IUD pain management and post operative considerations

30:40 — Progesterone sensitivity and MHT options

33:00 — Monitoring patients on MHT

39:20 — Genitourinary syndrome of menopause and genital skincare

44:57 — Vaginal treatments vs. lubricants — clarifying the difference

45:42 — Libido: a biopsychosocial approach

49:00 — STIs: asymptomatic screening and approaching vaginal discharge

54:39 — Symptomatic STIs and trauma-informed examination

57:18 — Bacterial vaginosis and partner treatment

59:12 — STI prevention: PrEP and DoxyPEP

1:03:21 — Cervical screening: 2025 guideline updates and the MAGIC App

1:06:56 — Trauma-informed care in practice

1:10:51 — Medicare changes: LARC rebates and bulk billing incentives

1:12:58 — Why join the RACGP-SRH special interest group

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Ever found yourself staring at a workers' compensation or insurance form, pen in hand, quietly wondering what on earth you're supposed to write in half these boxes? You're in good company. Most of us learned this stuff the same way, watching someone else do it, nodding along, and then absolutely winging it the moment we were left alone with a patient and a certificate to fill in.

Yes, we know, workers' compensation and insurance sounds about as thrilling as a mandatory compliance training video. But stick with us.  Dr Rob Park sits down with Greg Spinda, specialist personal injury lawyer and, as it turns out, not nearly as terrifying as his credentials suggest, to work through real GP scenarios, tackle those form boxes that have been quietly haunting us, and explore how getting the details right from day one can make an enormous difference to your patients' outcomes. You might just walk away feeling like you finally know what you're doing.

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Study and learn lifestyle medicine:  Interested in whole of person clinical practice, research and careers that address the lifestyle and social determinants of illness and wellbeing, using lifestyle approaches, behaviour change, health coaching and implementation science?  Check out the JCU College of Medicine postgraduate degrees: Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Master in lifestyle medicine.

Dr Sam Manger on YouTube: Using lifestyle as medicine: A new era in chronic disease remission and YouTube: Careers in lifestyle medicine

The 3 week online microcredential in Lifestyle Medicine and Mental Health: Life and Mind available here.  

Host Dr Sam Manger is joined by Emeritus Professor Richard Hays, a well known clinical and academic GP serving rural and regional Australia.  In the 1990s he became the Professor of General Practice and Rural Health at the newly established North Queensland Clinical School (NQCS) which allowed medical students to complete their training in rural and remote Queensland, setting the stage for what would later become the Rural Clinical Schools, introduced by the Federal Government in the early 2000s. Richard was appointed the Foundation Dean of the James Cook University medical school, becoming the first GP to hold such a position in an Australasian medical school. Richard has over 300 peer-reviewed papers, publications and edited works, including the notable "Handbook of Rural Medicine in Australia" and relevant to our topic today "Travels though Historic Medical Education Sites of Europe" available here.

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Study and learn lifestyle medicine:  Interested in whole of person clinical practice, research and careers that address the lifestyle and social determinants of illness and wellbeing, using lifestyle approaches, behaviour change, health coaching and implementation science?  Check out the JCU College of Medicine postgraduate degrees: Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Master in lifestyle medicine.

Dr Sam Manger on YouTube: Using lifestyle as medicine: A new era in chronic disease remission and YouTube: Careers in lifestyle medicine

The 3 week online microcredential in Lifestyle Medicine and Mental Health: Life and Mind available here.  

Job opportunities: Are you a GP, psychiatrist, nurse, or dietitian seeking new inpatient and outpatient careers in whole of person health care?  Opportunities have come up with multiple successful healthcare organisations throughout Australia, please contact Dr Sam Manger for more information contact@thegpshow.com 

Dr Lucy Loveday is a GP in the UK, medical educator/Training Programme Director, Director of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow 2021 and  Founder of the Movement & The Mind event.

Associate Professor Simon Rosenbaum is an exercise physiologist and Scientia Associate Professor in the School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney. He is also an honorary fellow at the Black Dog Institute and serves as an elected national director of Exercise and Sports Science Australia.  Simon has published >180 peer-reviewed publications including a textbook and a Lancet Commission.

The Movement & The Mind event is a virtual conference recognising, exploring, and celebrating the connections between mind, body, and planet on Friday June 18 at https://www.movementandthemind.co.uk/

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Professor Lorimer Moseley is a clinical scientist investigating pain in humans. After posts at The University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Sydney, Lorimer was appointed Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia. He is also Senior Principal Research Fellow at NeuRA and an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow. He leads the Body in Mind Research Group, based at the University of South Australia which investigates the role of the brain and mind in chronic pain.  He has published over 310 papers, six books for clinicians and patient workbooks, and numerous book chapters/. He is a strategic adviser for PAIN, associate Editor for the Journal of Pain, the European Journal of Pain and the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

FORWARD to 15:15 to get to the interview. The first section is about the history of the treatment and understanding of pain.

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Professor Susan Davis is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Senior Principal Research Fellow, Professor of Women's Health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Consultant Endocrinologist, President of the International Menopause Society, co-founder of the Jean Hailes Foundation and past President of the Australasian Menopause Society.  Just to name a few!

We discuss:

1. Initiating hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
2. Risks and benefits
3. Ceasing HRT
4. Testosterone for women?  Evidence, indications, pros/cons
5. Bioidentical HRT - what is it? evidence, pros, cons
6. Tailored HRT - to bloods/salvia results - evidence? pros/cons?  
7. Good resources

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Dr Alexander Lehn is a neurologist with special interests in functional neurological disorders, movement disorders and cognitive neurology.  He is also a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. 

Functional Neurological Disorders account for the second most common presentation to neurological clinics.  They also may overlap and integrate with many other common disorders such as chronic pain, irritable bowel syndrome and chronic fatigue.  Their management and understanding exemplify the crucial importance of treating a person as a whole, not just a sum of their parts.

Resources cited:

http://neurosymptoms.org/

https://fndaustralia.com.au/resources/resources/educational-videos.html

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Professor Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association.

He is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015) and Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health (Bloomsbury: 2004).  Professor Marmot holds the Harvard Lown Professorship for 2014-2017 and is the recipient of the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health 2015. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from 18 universities.

Professor Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for over 40 years. He chairs the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas, set up in 2015 by the World Health Organizations' Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/ WHO).  He was Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), which was set up by the World Health Organization in 2005, and produced the report entitled: 'Closing the Gap in a Generation' in August 2008. Professor Marmot served as President of the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2010-2011, and is President of the British Lung Foundation. 

In 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities.

Today we discuss his 2015 book The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world, available at Bloomsbury - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-health-gap-9781408857991/

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Dr Petra Skeffington is a clinical psychologist at the Cygnet Clinic in Perth.  She has a PhD from Curtin University and a Masters Certificate in Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery from Harvard Medical School.  She is the Western Australian State Chair for the Australian Psychological Society (APS) College of Clinical Psychologists, and Head of Psychology, Exercise Science, Chiropractic and Counselling (PESCC) at Murdoch University in Western Australia. 

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(Replay) Professor Gregory Phillips is the CEO of Abstarr consulting and Professor of First People's Health in the School of Medicine at Griffith University.  Gregory is from the Waanyi and Jaru Aboriginal Australian peoples and comes from Cloncurry and Mount Isa. He is a leading change maker, thought leader and medical anthropologist.  He developed an accredited Indigenous health curriculum for all medical schools in Australia and New Zealand, founded the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network, and co-wrote a national Indigenous health workforce strategy. He established the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation Ltd in the wake of the federal apology to Indigenous Australians, has advised federal ministers on Indigenous health inequality and was honoured in 2011 with an ADC Australian Leadership Forum Award. 

More info at:

http://abstarr.com/