College-led training: Past, present and future of GP training: Part 1
Track 1
| Friday, November 25, 2022 |
| 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM |
| Plenary 1 |
Overview
The evolution of GP training
Details
Session style: Presentation with Q&A
Hear about our vision for GP training and our custodianship of the AGPT program. Our speakers will reflect on and celebrate the development of GP training into the current day program. You’ll learn how global experience, international review and contemporary educational theory have informed our educational model. We’ll discuss how our AGPT program builds on current successes and uses best practices to provide a fit-for-future training approach.
Speaker
Dr Bruce Willett
Vice President and Chair RACGP Queensland
RACGP
Past, present and future of GP Training - The evolution of GP training
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMSession summary
Hear about our vision for GP training and our custodianship of the AGPT program. Our speakers will reflect on and celebrate the development of GP training into the current day program. You’ll learn how global experience, international review and contemporary educational theory have informed our educational model. We’ll discuss how our AGPT program builds on current successes and uses best practices to provide a fit-for-future training approach.
Learning outcomes
At the conclusion of this session participants will:
• recognise the successes of the current RTO model
• understand the RACGP education model
• understand the roadmap to fit-for-future GP training
• recognise the successes of the current RTO model
• understand the RACGP education model
• understand the roadmap to fit-for-future GP training
Biography
Dr Bruce Willett is a GP and practice owner in Victoria Point in Redland City, south of Brisbane, who is committed to grassroots general practice and medical education.
He has been on the board of General Practice Supervisors Australia (GPSA) since 2010, was Chair of GPSA from 2015 to 2016, and Chair of the GP Supervisor Liaison Officer Network from 2010 to 2015, and has been an RACGP examiner since 1994.
Bruce has been the Supervisor Liaison Officer for General Practice Training Queensland/Central and Southern Queensland Training Consortium (GPTQ/CSQTC) since 2008 and also worked as a medical educator for GPTQ.
A/Prof James Brown
Principal Medical Educator
RACGP
Past, present and future of GP Training - The evolution of GP training
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Dr James Brown is the RACGP Principal Medical Education Advisor. He is also a GP supervisor and practice owner in Gippsland. He lives on a small farm with his wife. He has been a director of training and has led a large number of educational research projects with a focus on GP vocational training, particularly in-practice learning.
Dr Graham Emblen
Director of Medical Education
GPTQ
Past, present and future of GP Training - The evolution of GP training
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
To be provided.
Dr Vanessa Moran
Director of Education and Training ACT and NSW
GP Synergy
Past, present and future of GP Training - The evolution of GP training
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Vanessa is a member of the RACGP Rural Education Committee and has a passion for rural General Practice education. She has been interested and involved in education since her own experience as a rural GP registrar and VMO in an MMM4 town in NSW as well as seeing the inequality of health access for her own family in an MMM5 location.
Vanessa currently works as the Director of Education and Training for GP Synergy and has recently moved from Sydney to Newcastle. Her partner has dreams of returning to remote Australia where he spent 20 years and she is working up to having the confidence to make that final leap.
Dr Paul Dilena
Director of Medical Education and Training
Gpex
Past, present and future of GP Training - The evolution of GP training
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Paul oversees GPEx’s team of medical educators, leading our organisation’s focus on training excellence and innovation that sets us apart in our field.
He also provides leadership to medical educators nationally through additional governance roles.
A practising GP who has worked across metropolitan and rural South Australia, Paul has a strong background in medical education, previously holding the positions of Director of GP Training at Flinders Medical Centre and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
He is a Quality Assurance examiner for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, has completed a Masters in Clinical Education, and holds postgraduate qualifications in Dermatology and Reproductive Health.
