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This podcast explores the enablers and best practice strategies for integrating medical students into the general practice environment – in ways that balance learning with practice efficiency and clinical workload. We consider practical approaches to creating a positive learning environment, orientating students, involving them meaningfully in patient care, and giving effective feedback.

​This podcast gives you practical strategies to make your practice stand out and unpacks the new Federal Government GP Training incentives starting in Semester 1, 2026 – and what they mean for both practices and registrars.

Doctors Justin Coleman and Simon Morgan discuss how to teach registrars the science and art of using screening tests and preventive health interventions.

GPSA Teaching Plan: Preventive Health And Screening

In Australia, 40% of pregnancies are unintended. Uptake of reliable and cost-effective long-acting reversible contraception, such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants, is lower in Australia compared to similarly developed countries, and early medical abortion can be difficult to access. Many factors impact uptake of or access to these services, including access to primary health care service providers who provide these services.

In this podcast we discuss the use of new teaching resources on contraceptive options, long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and early medical abortion (EMA) to support teaching and implementation of best practice care.

AusCAPPS

GPSA Teaching Plans

It is widely recognised that international medical graduates (IMG) can face multiple potential challenges in navigating GP training. Supervisors therefore need a thorough understanding of the range of cultural, communication and other issues facing IMG registrars.

This podcast aims to assist GP supervisors to better support IMG GP registrars training in their practices.GPSA resources https://gpsa.org.au/supporting-the-img/

In this episode, we explore the rapid rise of AI scribes in Australian primary care, with around 20% of GPs now using them daily. These tools record consultations, transcribe them, and use AI to generate summarised medical records—helping to save time, improve accuracy, and reduce clinician burnout. While AI scribes offer promising solutions to workforce pressures, they also introduce important medicolegal considerations, especially for supervisors and registrars.

Resources

MIPS Fact Sheet https://support.mips.com.au/home/ai-scribes-fact-sheet

Meeting your professional obligations when using Artificial Intelligence in healthcare

https://www.ahpra.gov.au/Resources/Artificial-Intelligence-in-healthcare.aspx

RACGP Fact Sheet https://www.racgp.org.au/running-a-practice/technology/artificial-intelligence-ai/artificial-intelligence-ai-scribes

ACRRM Resources https://www.acrrm.org.au/resources/digital-health/artificial-intelligence

Article Is AI A-OK? Medicolegal considerations for general practitioners using AI scribes

https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2025/may/is-ai-a-ok-medicolegal-considerations-for-general

In this podcast we provide a comprehensive framework to help you ensure that your registrars possess the basic business knowledge required as they transition from an employee model to self-employment in general practice.

This special podcast commemorates World Family Doctor Day (WFDD), celebrated annually to recognise the contributions of family doctors worldwide. This year's global theme, "Building Mental Resilience in a Changing World," emphasised the pivotal role of family medicine in supporting mental health and resilience.

A panel of international GPs talk about general practice in their home countries of Denmark, New Zealand and Timor Leste.

In 2024, we partnered with women GPs to design resources and programs to support and encourage more women to step into GP supervision roles - helping grow the next generation of GP supervisors.

In this podcast hear from a diverse panel of women - including aspiring, novice and experienced GP supervisors, college representatives and a practice manager - as they discuss their experiences about becoming part of the supervision community.

Find out more https://gpsa.org.au/orientation-to-gp-supervision/

This webinar encourages supervisors to reflect on their own knowledge, confidence and skills in working with families to support child mental health. It also discusses transferable skills that can be applied when working with children and families to better support child mental health. GPSA Teaching Plans can be found here https://gpsa.org.au/our-resources/supervision-support/

This podcast will help hone your supervision skills to be an effective and skilled procedural skill supervisor.

Our new guide Navigating bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment in the general practice workplace has been developed by GPSA in collaboration with an expert in the field of upward bullying, Maureen Kyne.

This podcast gives you the opportunity to benefit directly from Maureen's profound understanding of the various aspects of, and tools to deal with, bullying, sexual harassment and discrimination - which she has translated to the context of GP supervision for our members' benefit - along with the new Respect@Work legislation we all need to be across.

The use of video-recorded consultations in general practice training is a highly valuable educational tool. By reviewing their real-life consultations, registrars can engage in reflective practice and genuinely self-assess their consultation, communication and reasoning skills. Furthermore, video-recorded consultations enable supervisors and educators to assess registrar performance with a level of detail that is not possible through traditional observation. This can result in more focused feedback and a deeper understanding of areas needing improvement.

This podcast discusses the medico-legal considerations, including patient consent, data protection, and confidentiality.

Investigations play a critical role in the diagnosis, monitoring and screening for disease in general practice. And the use of such tests is increasing both in Australia and internationally. While some of this increase is appropriate, a growing body of evidence suggests that non-rational testing is a significant problem. This is costly and problematic for GPs but also poses significant harm to patients.
Registrars, especially those new to general practice, are at particular risk of non-rational test ordering. Supervisors can play a key role is supporting this critical aspect of practice. A number of strategies have been described for the most effective and appropriate use of tests in the general practice setting.

This podcast provides the latest updates on training and supervision and streamlined processes. Including a sneak peek at the ACRRM sponsored “Supervisor Summits” for 2025.

This podcast uses a clinical case study to explore the causes of diagnostic error and discuss practical and teachable strategies to minimise diagnostic error in clinical practice.

This podcast discusses a range of practical tips and resources that the GP supervisor can use to help their new registrar safely and smoothly settle into the practice at the commencement of training.

This podcast outlines the components of clinical yarning and discusses other components of communication and how to utilize them during a consultation.

This podcast explores how to identify neurodiversity in registrars, whether formally diagnosed or not, and develop strategies to support them to thrive intheir role.

This podcast explores why HealthPathways is recommended as a key training tool as well as point of care guidance for GPs.

HealthPathways is an online manual used by clinicians to help make assessment, management, and specialist request decisions for over 600 conditions.

Click here to access HealthPathways in your local area

Have you noticed that some doctors rarely run late and yet seem to meet their patients’ needs.

This podcast explores and shares tips for bending the space time continuum…

GPSA Teaching Plan Time Management

GPSA's admin update for AGPT training in 2025

This podcast uses the topic of smoking cessation to explore the current understanding of motivational interviewing. It focuses on practical strategies for teaching registrars about approaches for providing brief advice to all patients who smoke.

This podcast presented by GPSA Chair Dr Srishti Dutta, CEO Carla Taylor and COO Leonie Chamberlain outlines the changes for 2025 in the new NTCER.

View the slides with notes here

This podcast aims to support the GP supervisor to maximise the educational utility of the ECTV. It explores the process and content of the teaching visit and discusses where the supervisor can add greater educational value.

Resources

https://gpsa.org.au/external-clinical-teaching-visits-ectvs/

This podcast delves into the practical elements of formative feedback in general practice and provides actionable strategies for implementation.

It briefly explores communication, hierarchy, trust, vulnerability and relativity concepts in the feedback space. It introduces the novel mnemonic 'DR STABLE', around which feedback can be structured.

Article

GPSA Feedback Guide

GPSA Resource How to give effective feedback

This podcast uses the topic of smoking cessation to explore the current understanding of motivational interviewing. It focuses on practical strategies for teaching registrars about approaches for providing brief advice to all patients who smoke.

This podcast showcases that despite significant challenges for registrars and their families, high-quality training in poorly resourced environments is achievable.

Case studies from regional, rural and remote areas, as well as Aboriginal Medical Service settings, illustrates practical examples of applying technology and face-to-face forums to support this group effectively. 

Remote Supervision Guidelines

ACRRM

RACGP

In this podcast we discuss experiences from Denmark on how to enhance reflection in registrars, including the presentation of a simple and feasible assessment method called Global Assessment of Reflection Ability (GAR) (Lillevang et al. BMC Medical Education (2020) 20:352).

Resources: How to enhance and assess reflection in specialist training: a mixed method validation study of a new tool for global assessment of reflection ability Global Assessment Tool of Reflective Ability

This podcast broadly describes how the special skill of managing uncertainty in general practice is best learnt and taught.

Click here to view the resources mentioned

This podcast broadly describes the scope of problem case discussion (PCD) as an assessment and teaching tool in GP training. It focuses on the PQRST framework as a tool for PCD, to help you maximise the educational value of this common teaching method.

Click here to view the resources mentioned.

This podcast covers some of the seemingly straightforward but potentially high-risk presentations, including the driving medical and 6 week baby check. It will take a particular focus on early registrars' unknown unknown learning needs, with tips and discussion on how to guide them to address these presentations thoroughly and safely.

Click here to access the webinar resources.

This podcast part 2 explores the factors contributing to challenging patient behaviour and introduce a framework to ‘classify’ the challenging patient. It also introduces generic ways in which the supervisor can support their registrar. View resources here https://community.gpsa.org.au/topics/2025/media_center/folder/f91541c6-bc13-4a14-b29c-39cc6d79a293

This podcast explores the factors contributing to challenging patient behaviour and introduce a framework to ‘classify’ the challenging patient. It also introduces generic ways in which the supervisor can support their registrar.

Supervisors play an important role in helping registrars to apply EBM skills in practice. This podcast explores key principles and challenges of EBM, what registrars need to learn, and suggest practical strategies for supporting your registrar to apply EBM skills in your practice.

Access the webinar resources here

This podcast is the third in the mini-series aimed to help supervisors support new GP registrars at the start of their community training. It will address some of the priority learning needs of GP registrars and how supervisors can best support them.

If you would like to access the resources mentioned in the podcast and discuss this topic further please click here https://community.gpsa.org.au/topics/2025/media_center

GPSA research project on the best practice learning environment

We are trialling a benchmarking and quality improvement tool to support training practices to meet best practice standards in vocational training. Your experiences and expectations in GP training are needed to help us test and refine this tool to ensure that it is feasible and appropriate for use in the general practice context. We are seeking feedback on our tool from anyone involved in GP training. Click here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CJQQ62G

This podcast is a 'how to' primer for GP supervisors on some of the key elements of clinical supervision - direct observation, random case analysis, and case discussion.

View resources https://community.gpsa.org.au/topics/2025/media_center/folder/ec35d61f-1916-4fd3-b107-0700aad4c882

This podcast presented by ACRRM's General Manager of Education Services, Kyra Moss; Training and Engagement Manager, Isabel Broderick; and Fellowship Manager, David York provides information on the key changes made at ACRRM and updates on placements and processes.

This podcast focuses on the first weeks of general practice and how the supervisor can help the registrar 'survive' the transition from the hospital setting. The presenters discuss recent research and provide a list of recommended survival items to help registrars survive the first weeks of general practice.

Resources

• Pre-placement checklist - before the registrar starts 
  
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  ‘Feeling like a deer in the headlights’ A qualitative study of registrar experience in early general practice training
  
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  A ‘call for help’ list for Australian general practice registrars 
  General practice registrar observation of their supervisors in consultation What is the educational value?
  
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  Article: Alone: General Practice
  
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  Webinar Group discussion
  

Single Employer Model Additional Information:

• The Murrumbidgee Model – Murrumbidgee Rural Generalist Training Pathway
• SEM Billings
• FAQ for Practices
• FAQs for Registrars

In this podcast Dr Gerard Ingham, RACGP National Clinical Lead for Supervisor and Practice Support and Education, will provide an update on changes to the AGPT program for RACGP supervisors in 2024.

Topics covered:

• Workplace-based assessments - EASL, RCA and mini-CEX; Requirements and payments for supervisor professional development
• Automatic CPD hours for being a supervisor
• Supervisor accreditation
• On-site supervision requirements.

Information Links and contact details Supervisor Resources⁠

Remote Supervision

General Practitioner Training Support Line:
 1800 472 247
Email:  agpt.support@racgp.org.au

This podcast discusses international research as detailed in The Culture Map by Erin Meyer and practical experience while exploring cultural communication preferences.

Catherine and Marisa discuss situations where culture may impact communication and feedback in general practice training and what training, resources and adjustments may be required for registrars and supervisors. Resources

• GPSA IMG Toolbox
• How To… Give Effective Feedback
• Erin Meyer - Book The Culture Map
• Dr Meyer’s. “What’s Your Cultural Profile

In this podcast ACRRM and RACGP discuss their remote supervision guidelines and their joint philosophy that remote supervision should not be regarded as ‘second-best’ training, rather an alternative model that is comparable to traditional supervision. Resources
RACGP

• Guidelines for remote supervision
• Remote Supervision
• Remote Supervision Program
• Remote Supervision Accreditation Requirements
• Remote Supervision Registrar Requirements
• Remote supervision training site requirements

• Guidelines for safe and effective rural generalist training using remote supervision.
• Supervisors and Training Post Standards
• Accreditation standards
• Flexible funds guidelines

ACRRM
National Consistent Payments Framework
Click here to see our upcoming webinars.

This podcast explores the concepts of a decolonised and strength-based approach to facilitating learning in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

Resources mentioned in the webinar:

• Harvard Implicit Association Test

• GPSA Resources Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

• Colonisation - It's bad for your health: The context of Aboriginal health Sherwood, Juanita

• Understanding the Australian Aboriginal experience of collective, historical and intergenerational trauma Dr Karen Menzies

• New report sheds light on disadvantage for the Stolen Generations and their descendants Healing Foundation

• Clinical Yarning Western Australian Centre for Rural Health

• Racism as a Determinant of Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

• Deficit Discourse and Strengths-based Approaches: Changing the Narrative of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing

In this podcast we hope to improve your knowledge and understanding of the available resources to better prepare your registrars for exams. We will also explore the use of the rubrics for direct observation and feedback, and clinical case discussions.

Resources

• RACGP Progressive capability profile of a GP
• RACGP curriculum and syllabus
• RACGP Clinical Competency Rubric
• GPSA Clinical Reasoning Guide
• How to do Assess and Teach Clinical Reasoning
• GPSA Scenario App
  
• ⁠GPSA Random Case Analysis Guide⁠
• ⁠GPSA How to do Random Case Analysis Resource⁠
• GPSA Teaching Professionalism Guide
• GPSA Managing Uncertainty Guide
• Consultation Skills Toolbox
• GPSA Study Skills Guide
• GPSA Webinar ‘Studying Smarter, not Harder’ – Effective Study Skills for General Practice Training

This podcast gives a guided tour of the GPSA educational resources, in particular highlighting those that are new or recently revised.

GPSA Supervision Web Page https://gpsa.org.au/supervision-menu/ GPSA Supervision Resources https://gpsa.org.au/supervision-support/ Join our community here https://community.gpsa.org.au/signup

This podcast:

Answers audience questions about WPP

Explains the purpose of the activity under this Commonwealth grant

Outlines the mechanisms being used to collect data for these reports

If you would like the contact details for the National WPPO leads please email admin@gpsa.org.au

Originally recorded in September 2023

This podcast will explore the current understanding of clinical reasoning, including the dual process theory of thinking, illness scripts and cognitive bias. It will take a particular focus on practical strategies for teaching clinical reasoning to registrars.

Resources 
How to do problem case discussion 
How to assess and teach clinical reasoning
Clinical Reasoning online game
GPSA Guide - Managing Uncertainty
GPSA Guide - Teaching Clinical Reasoning 
SIDM clinical reasoning toolkit 
Diagnostic strategies used in primary care

Books

How Doctors Think Jerome Groopman 
Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 

Part 2 podcast Dementia Demystified: A Model for the Practice Team to Learn Together - Managing Dementia

Podcast Resources Autofills post diagnosis management Medication Management Managing dementia FAQ Managing Stage 3 Advanced Care FAQ Australian Journal of General Practice Volume 52 issue 8 August 2023

This podcast broadly describes the scope of case discussion as an assessment and teaching tool in GP training. It focuses on the PQRST framework as a tool for effective case discussion for both PCD and corridor consultations.

Resources

• How to do Problem Case Discussion
• Practice Based Teaching in General Practice Training Guide
• PQRST: A Framework for case discussion
• Clinical Reasoning Guide