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Testing, Testing 1,2,3 Podcast
The Check-Up podcast by Medcast presents a 3-part series to support GPs to use pathology tests more effectively, and reduce the harms of non-rational test ordering.
READ ON![OA of the hip: The HIT Trial](/media/js3izbmy/blog-image-6.png?rxy=0.41829481597260987,0.5345867009649025&width=800&height=600&v=1d925bae6fa04f0)
Osteoarthritis is by far and away the most common form of arthritis in Australia.
![The Physical Activity in General Practice podcast series](/media/4y5pc1nk/copy-of-blog-image-20.png?rxy=0.6721556373675285,0.6739007579314369&width=800&height=600&v=1d8de2f41ae49c0)
The Check-Up podcast by Medcast presents this engaging & exciting 5-part series, discussing the importance of physical activity.
![Grants for GPs & Nurses - are you eligible?](/media/2039/copy-of-blog-image-11.png?rxy=0.49333333333333335,0.575&width=800&height=600&v=1d7eb85b964fce0)
To help lessen the financial burden of keeping up with CPD, rural and remote health professionals (MMM 3-7) who would normally be required to travel considerable distances to attend courses, can access a range of state-based funding.
![Diabetes in General Practice](/media/1962/blog-image-1.png?width=800&height=600&v=1d75922bcdfe970)
It's one thing for a medication to demonstrate an effect in the narrowly selected, hermetically sealed and artificially monitored setting of a clinical trial.
![Better Together: GP Supervisor Education](/media/1927/copy-of-blog-image.png?rxy=0.38666666666666666,0.5375&width=800&height=600&v=1dac969f1da1000)
Q: What do fish and chips, Batman and Robin, and country and western music have in common?
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Change seems to be the theme of 2020. In our region, as with many in Australia, it started with bushfires, before a jump to the left into ‘COVID Capers’.
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Milo, aged 26, comes to see you with lateral knee pain. As GPs how do we diagnose, treat and manage this?
![PODCAST: Blepharitis](/media/1747/bigstock-male-patient-with-stye-in-the-296717587-1.jpg?rxy=0.50953206239168114,0.58441558441558439&width=800&height=600&v=1d75922b90cc160)
Paul is aged 40, and he comes to see you with persistent, red, sore, scratchy eyes.
![How can GPs stay up to date with the rapid changes in medical knowledge?](/media/1405/bigstock-197339062.jpg?width=800&height=600&v=1d75922b4c098c0)
GPs are working harder than ever before, with longer, more complicated patients at a time when medical knowledge is changing and expanding faster than at any time in history.