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 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

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/

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

This podcast assists supervisors in supporting their registrars to develop an effective learning plan and integrate evidence-based study strategies into their in-practice teaching.

Resources:

• Study Skills Guide
• Study Skills Template
• Clinical Reasoning Guide
• Planning Learning webinar
• 4R Learning Needs Assessment Tool
• Planning Learning guide
• 5Ps Model

This podcast discusses an easy to use framework to understand and diagnose dementia in clinical practice.

Resources mentioned in this podcast.

• Diagnosing dementia in general practice podcasts: 
  Part 1 (20 mins) and Part 2 (20 mins)
• Australian Journal of Dementia Care Journal Article - Dementia Diagnosis in Practice
• Resource - Autofills to assist making a diagnosis for dementia
• GPSA Teaching Plan Dementia Diagnosis

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

GP registrars and supervisors need to be aware of the high community prevalence of abuse and violence during their consultations.  As members of this community, practitioners may themselves be vulnerable in the context of their own lived experience.  

It is important for supervisors to demonstrate trauma-informed medical education while supporting registrars in trauma-informed care, with a whole-of-practice approach to trauma closing the loop on the scaffolding of both trainee and patient.

This podcast provides an update about the ACRRM Flexible funds Framework and availability of supports for Supervisors and Practices.

ACRRM Flexible Funds Guidelines and FAQs Email: training@acrrm.org.au

This podcast is for GP supervisors and registrars to learn more about recognising and managing long COVID. Presented by Professor Michael Kidd, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer responsible for leading the primary care response to COVID for the last 3 years.

This part 2 podcast discusses how to teach your registrar to be culturally safe working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.

This podcast discusses how to teach your registrar to be culturally safe working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

GPSA Resources https://gpsupervisorsaustralia.org.au/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-health/

Other Resources

Social determinants of health Video https://vimeo.com/257813804

National guide to a preventive health assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
https://www.racgp.org.au/clinical-resources/clinical-guidelines/key-racgp-guidelines/view-all-racgp-guidelines/national-guide

Best-practice guide to cognitive impairment and dementia care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people attending primary care
https://www.racgp.org.au/FSDEDEV/media/documents/Clinical%20Resources/Guidelines/Best-practice-guide.pdf

Absolute Risk Approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cardiovascular Disease
https://nceph.anu.edu.au/research/projects/absolute-risk-approach-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-cardiovascular

2020 Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
https://www.rhdaustralia.org.au/resources/2020-australian-guideline-prevention-diagnosis-and-management-acute-rheumatic-fever-and

This podcast highlights the critical importance of an effective general practice consultation. Originally recorded in March 2023.

This podcast focuses on the key elements of the teacher role – helping the learner identify their learning needs, delivering high quality teaching, and fostering a ‘culture of learning’ in the practice.

All GPSA Resources can be found here https://gpsupervisorsaustralia.org.au/our-resources/

Originally recorded in March 2023.

This podcast will provide an overview of best practice supervision in the general practice setting. The roles and tasks of the GP supervisor will be explored, and practical tips for effective, high quality and sustainable supervision discussed.

The session will also orientate supervisors to the wide range of educational resources produced by GPSA.

Originally recorded in February 2023.

In this podcast ACRRM outline their plans for their flexible funds.

Resources and contact details

www.acrrm.org.au/college-led-training

www.acrrm.org.au/fellowship/pathways

www.acrrm.org.au/fellowship/pathways/agpt

www.acrrm.org.au/college-led-training/college-led-training-faqs

www.acrrm.org.au/resources/training/training-policies-and-processes

T: 1800 223 226

Emails: 

training@acrrm.org.au

transition@acrrm.org.au

This podcast will reassure and inform practice managers about the processes for 2023 and provide up-to-the-minute information about the transition from RTO-led training, how the Colleges are working together to streamline processes including accreditation, and the new systems facilitating Practice Support Payments.

Originally recorded in November 2022.

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.

In this podcast Martin Rocks will explain the National Consistent Payments and how payments will work through Services Australia.

Originally recorded in November 2022

The transition to college-led training on February 1st 2023 is fast approaching. What will GP training look like for supervisors and practices from that point on? What are the colleges doing to streamline processes and minimise duplication?
Presented by:

Kyra Moss – ACRRM General Manager Education Services
Glen Wallace – RACGP PLT Transition manager
Dr Karin Jodlowski‑Tan – RACGP National Clinical Lead ‑ Rural
Dr Gerard Ingham – RACGP Senior Medical Advisor
Dr Nicole Higgins – GPSA chair
Carla Taylor – GPSA CEO

Originally recorded in August 2022.

This podcast will enable supervisors to assist their registrars in dealing with general Men’s Health issues. In particular it aims to provide techniques to help them better engage with Men and their health.

Originally recorded in August 2022

In this podcast learn how ACRRM will be implementing changes under college-led training and keeping supervision at the heart of their model.

Originally recorded in July 2022

In this podcast we look to demystify some of the issues surrounding worker compensation, giving you a tool box to understand why the process is important to all parties.

Originally recorded in July 2022

This podcast is designed for GP supervisors who want to give their registrars an understanding of chronic pain management,  including the development of a patient-centred, goal-directed plan, using a shared decision-making approach. Since chronic pain is a frequent presentation in Australian general practice, registrars need to be well versed in the assessment and management of chronic pain, especially in the context of comorbidities and polypharmacy.

Originally recorded in May 2022

This podcast provides details on how the RACGP are planning to return training to the college and support our profession and communities and how it affects you and new and existing GP registrars. Burning issues are discussed such as practice agreements and supports, supervisor CPD, registrar selection and placement, and more. Presented by Georgina Van De Water, (MBA, GAICD Chief Transition Officer - RACGP, PLT), Associate Professor James Brown (OAM, FRACGP, FACRRM, DRANZCOG, MFM (Clin) Principal Medical Education Advisor - RACGP) and GPSA CEO Glen Wallace.

In this podcast an experienced practice manager and GP supervisor break down all the top tasks, forms, tips, and tricks to ensuring your registrar's arrival and experience is seamless - for both you the employer and registrar as the employee.

Originally recorded in April 2022

This podcast will assist GP supervisors to teach registrars their role in advance care planning and how to support their patients in the process.

Originally recorded in March 2022

You may have heard about structuring the learning environment for your GP registrars, but what does this really mean? In this podcast, we break this down by explaining 6 key elements, accompanied by tools and guidance on how to implement these in your practice. 

Originally recorded in March 2022

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

This podcast will enable supervisors to assist their registrar to better identify ADHD in their adolescent and adult patients and to optimise their assessment, referral and long-term management in general practice.

Originally recorded in February 2022.

This podcast focuses on being able to identify performance issues early, and address them to support registrars to achieve successful outcomes.

Originally recorded in February 2022

This podcast will explore the various clinical supervision options available to a supervisor and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Supervisors will receive a framework for random case analysis developed by the presenters that has been found to frequently reveal patient safety concerns.

Originally recorded in December 2021

This podcast will support supervisors to assist their registrars in gaining the skills required to take an effective and adequate sexual history, order appropriate screening tests, and manage common STIs. Syndromes such as Pelvic Inflammatory disease (PID), urethritis, vaginal discharge and genital ulcers will also be explored. 

Originally recorded in November 2021