Number 4 • 15 August 2011 MJACareers THE MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA A country practice
DR SAMUEL Goodwin, a general C1 practice registrar in Alice Springs in the Rural GPs provide holistic care for patients of all ages Northern Territory, recently hosted a fundraiser gig featuring a hospital band to raise money for an injured colleague. With only four tickets sold before the night, Dr Goodwin had modest expectations. “But we ended up getting over 100 people and raising thousands of dollars. Everyone had a really good time, and to my mind it’s a strong display of the support that exists in small communities for one another”, he says. Like many rural GPs, Dr Goodwin says that having a respected role within his local community is one of the most satisfying aspects of being a rural GP.
“The lack of anonymity that you might © 2011 Image courtesy of GPET. fi nd in a rural context is more than made up for by that increased role and value you a strong community is a solid, sustainable student anywhere they want in the world play in the community”, he says. medical practice.” — and that’s evident from my career path.” Dr Jeff Ayton, president of the Australian Dr Ayton says he was inspired to train Dr Ayton spent 2 years practising in College of Rural and Remote Medicine, as a rural generalist because he believed Norfolk Island as a GP-obstetrician- agrees that the it would allow him to practise anywhere anaesthetist, where he also had government level of support in Australia, or the world. It was a well medical offi cer responsibilities and did for GPs in rural founded decision, as his career has taken population health work. communities is him to locations as diverse as Antarctica, “The expanded scope of practice is incredible. Norfolk Island and Papua New Guinea. invaluable. In addition to routine general “Country towns “By having the generalist scope of practice, adding on the procedural practice rely on their GP practice it’s amazing what doors can open, and emergency medicine is to die for”, he not only for their both across geographies, and also across says. medical practice, the spectrums of primary, secondary and The procedural work involved with but also because occasionally tertiary health care. Rural being a rural GP also increases the the foundation of generalism can really take a medical potential remuneration. Dr Jeff Ayton continued on page C3 X
In this issue C2, C4 - C5, C12, C15 Specialist Appointments C9 - C11 Locums C1 Working as a rural GP C13 Conferences C5 Associate Professor Lucie Walters : GP-obstetrician C14 GP Opportunities C7 Financial bonds C16 Marketplace
Editor: Sophie McNamara • [email protected] • (02) 9562 6666 MJA Careers www.mjacareers.com.au • Number 4 • 15 August 2011
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MJA Careers 150811.indd 2 3/08/2011 2:50:36 PM MJA Careers www.mjacareers.com.au • Number 4 • 15 August 2011 continued from page C1 X Dr Goodwin, who combines Training as a rural GP roles with the Alice Springs Hospital, a private general practice The Fellowship programs of both the Royal Australian College of and the Royal Flying Doctor General Practitioners (RACGP) and Service (RFDS), is similarly the Australian College of Rural enthusiastic about the diverse and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) experiences offered to him as allow doctors to practise as general practitioners in rural or regional a rural GP, including work in areas, as well as in urban areas. secondary health care settings. ACRRM registrars undertake the “The fact that I can divide my majority of their training in rural or week between doing anaesthetics remote areas, in hospitals, general in the hospital, general practice practices or Aboriginal Medical Services. The 4-year course also work, teaching and some fl ying requires registrars to undertake • CLINICAL DIRECTOR doctor work — it does make a 12 months’ advanced training in • DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL EDUCATION really nice mix.” one of 10 disciplines beyond the standard scope of GP training, such Applications for these two positions are invited from General He also enjoys the chance to Practitioners committed to providing a high standard of clinical as anaesthetics, mental health, practice, teaching, and clinical leadership of a multidisciplinary team. work with Indigenous Australians obstetrics and gynaecology or — an opportunity that is available emergency medicine. Academic appointments with University of Queensland School of Medicine are available to successful applicants. Remuneration in many rural or remote areas. The RACGP also offers a Fellowship is negotiable based on salary supported by private practice “Indigenous health is a great in Advanced Rural General Practice arrangements. opportunity to learn, where there’s (FARGP) for doctors with an interest The positions are located in Bundaberg with an urban and in rural and procedural general surrounding regional population of 100,000 and accessible to the genuine pathology and a chance to practice. The FARGP is aimed at Coral Coast recreational opportunities. make a difference”, he says. GP registrars enrolled in vocational However, Dr Goodwin cautions training, as well as at experienced FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: GPs. The FARGP requires GP that the cost of training can be Dr Martin Strahan | 07 4153 0746 | [email protected] registrars to spend at least 12 high for registrars based in a months of their training in an remote area. accredited rural training post, plus “You need to travel to courses undertake 12 months of advanced C3 or other professional development rural skills training. opportunities. 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Associate Professor Lucie Walters is a GP-obstetrician based Case Study: Rural GP in Mount Gambier, South Australia. As Associate Professor in Rural Medical Education at Flinders University, she is involved in research, teaching, curriculum design and assessment. She is also Academic Director for the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM). MJA Careers profi les interesting and important jobs I also work for Flinders University Rural Clinical School as and the people who do them an academic. I really enjoy teaching, probably because I talk too much. It seemed a natural progression to go from teaching medical “I was born in Adelaide, but I moved 17 times before grade four. students and registrars at my general practice to being employed My dad’s a geologist and we lived in really remote places including by Flinders to teach medical students around Mount Gambier. Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, and remote communities in From there my role has broadened. I’ve become much more Queensland and the Northern Territory. I think my interest in medicine interested not just in clinical medicine, but also in curriculum was sparked because my mum’s a physio, and I was really interested design and assessment for medical students. I teach interns at in how people’s personalities combine with their illness to produce an Mount Gambier Hospital and have done research on how student outcome. I met a few medical students through my youth group, who supervision affects rural doctors. Through the ACRRM, I’m were role models to me, and I had some fabulous work experience with a involved with training and assessment of registrars within general paediatrician while I was still at school, which completely inspired me. practice settings, and within the hospital. They receive advanced skills training so they can provide generalist medical services I’m an enthusiast, an optimist by nature, and I liked everything I to rural communities. That’s what I’m really passionate about. I did when I was studying medicine. So I chose a job that would mean I would love to make a difference to the health of rural Australia. wouldn’t have to stop doing anything! A wise man once said to me, ‘you In rural areas you know everyone around you and have quite can do everything Lucie, you just can’t do it all at the same time’. I think complex relationships, on various levels, with people. Rural that rural, procedural general practice and working in a rural clinical doctors know their patients as friends, colleagues and community school has really allowed me to do that. members. I can’t untangle career highlights from personal life There’s such a wide scope in rural general practice, that you might die which is one of the privileges, but also one of the challenges, of of hard work but you’ll never die of boredom. And despite what people rural general practice. say about medicine being less prestigious than it once was, my experience One of the times I’ve felt most privileged but also found that C5 is that to be a rural doctor is to hold an incredibly privileged position. privilege to be a burden is when one of my husband’s good mates I know secrets that people have never shared with anybody else. I’ve died of leukaemia last year. For fi ve consecutive nights after shared some of the greatest and saddest moments of people’s lives, and work I went to the private wards where he was dying, and stayed have seen the world through their eyes. At the broader level, when I’ve overnight with him and his wife, who is my closest friend. I was wanted to change things, such as seeing if we could teach more students, able to fi nd a funny path somewhere between friend and clinician. people in local government and the health service industry have been To witness the intimacy of their relationship at its fi nal time was receptive, respectful and supportive. something I’ll never forget. Also, the support I received from my I’ve worked as a rural GP-obstetrician in Mount Gambier for 17 years, colleagues, so I was able to be involved with his care without and I’ve been delivering babies that whole time. Delivering babies never having responsibility for it, was incredible. His wife and kids (who gets boring — it’s a highlight every time. One of the babies I delivered is I delivered) ran away to Vietnam with us this year for a family now a medical student, which is very exciting. If I was practising in the holiday on the anniversary of his death. city, I couldn’t do the obstetrics work that I do in the country, and that It is reassuring that although the privileges of rural medicine work is very important to me. Doctors have a responsibility to provide are not always comfortable, the difference you can make in patients with the best care, and if there’s a specialist two doors down, people’s lives at a very personal level is so rewarding.” you have a responsibility to refer. But in the country, distance and access issues mean that it’s reasonable for you to do the work yourself. As told to Sophie McNamara MJA Careers www.mjacareers.com.au • Number 4 • 15 August 2011
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WHEN Victorian general practitioner Dr the safest way to seek out an appropriate fi rm Centric Wealth, agrees. He says a strong Neville Steer moved from Traralgon to accountant or fi nancial planner. Dr Steer says relationship is crucial, for example, if you Mornington, about 2.5 hours’ drive away, he it’s not crucial to select a fi rm that specialises have to tell someone who is approaching took his accountant with him. in medical professionals, but it is wise to fi nd retirement that the BMW has to go because Not physically, of course, but after 8 years an accountant or adviser with several doctors they need to invest more money into with the same accountant Dr Steer wasn’t on their books, particularly if practice superannuation. prepared to sever ties, especially with a structure advice is needed. Mr Cooke says doctors also need to keep new practice to establish in Mornington. So But word-of-mouth is not a foolproof their fi nancial planners abreast of many over the past 2 years, he has maintained the method — what may work for some may not of life’s major milestones. Separation or professional partnership remotely. work for others, and a fi nancial professional’s divorce, children fi nishing school (especially Dr Steer, a practice principal and former skills, experience and approach need to be private school), paying off the mortgage or general practice management consultant, considered on a case-by-case basis. inheriting money are all events that may speaks with his accountant about once a “It could be that your colleague’s alter fi nancial planning decisions. month and receives personal visits 2–3 times expectations have been met, but yours may “We at times know things that their a year. not be”, Mr McMaster says. “Or the issues partner, or husband or wife doesn’t know”, C7 Such an arrangement was possible, Dr you present are issues the adviser has no he says. Steer says, because he had already built a experience in.” Trust only extends so far though. On solid relationship with his accountant. Industry associations also offer guidance in its MoneySmart website, the Australian “It comes from regular personal contact. It fi nding a professional (see website list page Securities and Investments Commission would be diffi cult to work like this to start C8). (ASIC) advises fi nancial clients not to write a off with”, he says. Checking an accountant’s or fi nancial cheque payable to an adviser, unless paying Dr Steer’s case shows how much some planner’s professional qualifi cations is a their advice fee, and to avoid giving an doctors value an effective partnership crucial fi rst step, but there are other, less adviser power of attorney. with their fi nancial professionals. “I think obvious, considerations. Mr McMaster says doctors should also of [my accountant] as being like a ‘GP One factor is the size of the accountancy steer clear of investing in products that in accountancy’, in that he manages my or fi nancial planning fi rm — some doctors pay an accountant or fi nancial planner a day-to-day accounting work and advises may like the personalised service of a one- commission. ASIC agrees and recommends on business issues. When there have been man band, but they need to consider if one clients pay a fl at-dollar fee rather than a occasions that required some specialist person can provide the range of services commission or a percentage-of-assets fee. advice, he has obtained opinions from potentially needed. “Commissions have really bedevilled the accounting specialists and guided me Personalities count too. In Mr McMaster’s accountant–doctor relationship over the through that.” experience, doctors are usually good judges years, with a lot of very tragic results”, Mr Terry McMaster, director of medical of character. “Doctors are, by nature, very McMaster says. He recalls the case of an accounting, law and fi nancial planning fi rm perceptive and intuitive”, he says. “They are international medical graduate who, after McMasters’, says the elements of a good good at determining whether a person is living in Australia for one year, had a relationship between a doctor and a fi nancial competent, able and genuine.” $300 000 investment loan and nothing professional are much the same as in the It’s important to fi nd someone you’re to show for it after an accountant had patient–doctor relationship. There needs comfortable with because frank fi nancial recommended a dubious tax-planning to be respect, trust and confi dence in the discussions may be needed at times. scheme. professional’s skill level. Russell Mann, managing director of “Every time that happens ... the necessary Developing such a partnership starts Collins Mann Private Wealth Management, element of trust is broken and eroded.” from day one, and there are many factors says honesty and trust are at the core of an Last year, the federal government to consider in selecting an accountant or effective partnership. “You sometimes have to announced a raft of reforms to ensure that fi nancial planner. give a warts-and-all [assessment], the good fi nancial planners act in the best interests For time-poor doctors, a word-of-mouth and the bad.” of their clients. The reforms include recommendation from a colleague is often Paul Cooke, director of fi nancial planning a ban on fi nancial planners accepting
continued on page C8 X MJA Careers www.mjacareers.com.au • Number 4 • 15 August 2011
continued from page C7 X most commissions or volume-based Once doctors establish a relationship says a fi nancial planner should not look at payments for recommending particular with a fi nancial professional, they should one area of a fi nancial structure in isolation investment products, and are expected to be expect the fi nancial professional to provide because an action in one area will have fl ow- implemented from 1 July 2012. a holistic service. For example, Mr Mann on effects to other parts, such as wills. Doctors should also expect good, but What’s the difference? When it’s working non-intrusive, communication from fi nancial professionals and “proven proactivity”, says Accountants can provide doctors Marks of an effective relationship Mr McMaster, adding that proactivity is a with accounting services and general with a fi nancial professional include: word often spoken, but rarely observed. business advice. Many accountants “An accountant should be suggesting things, ɼ Trust and respect are also tax agents, allowing them to rather than just being reactive.” advise on taxation law. Accountants ɼ Rapport can also act as fi nancial planners, Online resources: but only after completing at least ɼ Transparency in the cost Most professional associations offer tools a diploma in fi nancial planning and structure for services on their websites to help fi nd fi nancial having “proper authority” with an ɼ Longevity Australian Financial Services licence professionals. holder. CPA Australia (www.cpaaustralia.com.au) When it’s not Financial planners may or may Institute of Chartered Accountants in not be accountants. They hold an It may be time to part ways if: Australia (www.charteredaccountants.com.au)
Australian Financial Services licence ɼ There is a continual lack of Financial Planning Association of and can provide advice on fi nancial service (although isolated lapses Australia (www.fpa.asn.au) products under Corporations Law. should be excused) For more information about selecting and Financial products include risk working with fi nancial advisers, see the insurance and most investment ɼ There is no proactivity on the Australian Securities and Investments products, but not direct property part of the professional Commission’s website (www.moneysmart. investments. ɼ The level of communication gov.au). does not meet the doctor’s Source: Terry McMaster, McMasters’ needs C8 Accountants, Solicitors, Financial Planners By Nicole Mackee MJA Careers WWWMJACAREERSCOMAU s .UMBER s !UGUST
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GP - Obstetrician
A general practitioner with obstetrics skills is required to fill a vacancy in early 2012 in Hamilton, Western Victoria.
The successful person would work as a general practitioner with 16 other GPs at the Hamilton Medical Group and practice obstetrics for the Western District Health Services at Hamilton Hospital.
The obstetrics work would be supervised by a fulltime consultant obstetrician, with good backup from the two other GP Obstetricians.
To view full advertisements, and to obtain a position description please visit our web-site www.wdhs.net Applications, together with Resume should be emailed to [email protected]
Salary and conditions are in accordance with the relevant awards. A satisfactory police check is required
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GP Opportunity A friendly group practice located in Korumburra, Victoria would like to formally invite an experienced General Practitioner to join their team. Nestled amongst the rolling hills of South Gippsland, the practice has plenty of room for a new member within our 8 room purpose built building. The Korumburra Medical Centre is well supported with office GENERAL PRACTITIONER POSITIONS staff, full time nurses and pathology on site. The centre is well equipped – to support your needs, allowing you to practice in comfort. AVAILABLE IN RURAL VICTORIA SHEPPARTON & GOULBURN VALLEY REGION Korumburra has a modern hospital with visiting specialists and allied health services to assist with treating the growing population. The region offers a wide choice of living - city or rural, small towns or farming communities. The climate is temperate with 02 With easy freeway access, Korumburra is situated 1.5 hours from -
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Melbourne and 20 mins to the beach. The area boasts many wineries, 0 5 sporting clubs, beaches and is within 1 hour of snow. South Gippsland All practices within the Region are situated within 0 is a stunning area of Victoria that is safe and great for raising children. one hour of Shepparton. (Shepparton is called the Heart of Victoria, and is the 4th largest provincial city in Victoria) Shepparton itself Inquiries please contact our Practice Manager, Nadine Smith on is only 2 hours from Melbourne. 03 56551355 or email [email protected]. Shepparton is nestled in the Goulburn Valley and caters for water skiing on the Murray River, wineries and bush-walking and snow skiing in the mountains. Procedural GP with Obstetric A variety of positions available-almost all areas fall in a District of Workforce Shortage. and/or anaesthetic experience IMG Program available for those IMGs seeking to gain fellowship. is required for a busy Rural Practice in Rural NSW in a community that A key facet of Greater Shepparton’s population is values your expertise. its diverse multicultural composition. Very competitive remuneration. We offer very flexible work practices and business arrangements VR’d preferred, but not essential. with excellent remuneration. Our practice is fully computerised with practice nurse support, and is fully accredited. Contact Peter Wyman # Workforce Officer GVGPs & NEVic Divisions of We are an Associate Group Practice with 4 permanent doctors and General Practice IMG (International Medical Graduate) three GP Registrars. VMO roster first on call 1 in 12, obstetric roster 1 Project Officer - Bogong Regional Training Network in 5, and practice call 1 in 7. We have a 52 bed hospital with surgical C/- Goulburn Valley Division of General Practice and anaesthetic backup. 226 Wyndham St Shepparton Vic 3632, P.O. Box 1074 Monday to Friday: (03) 5831 5399; (03) 5831 5398 Contact: Dr Maxine Percival – 02 6752 2644 Mobile: 0437 197 133 or email enquiry to [email protected] www.gvgp.com.au
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Go the distance reap the rewards Come and practise medicine in rural Western Australia and you will get: the satisfaction of providing health and medical services to rural communities professional support through training, medical indemnity “Professional fulfilment is and other incentives clearly only one aspect of generous remuneration packages and attractive conditions. country life. I enjoy living in York which has a strong Visit www.health.wa.gov.au/doctors4ruralWA for more details emphasis on community spirit.” # of the incentive packages that are available. Then email Dr Matt Archer [email protected] or phone 08 9223 8589. JUL’11 JOURNAL DOH12078 MEDICAL
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