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Mt Gambier RRAPP (PGY2)General InformationThe Rural and Remote Areas Placement Program (RRAPP) is an innovative program which will enable up to one hundred junior doctors throughout Australia to undertake a high quality rural community-based term during their first three postgraduate years. The Hawkins Medical Centre in Mt Gambier, South Australia, began participation in the program in 2001. Please visit the practice website at www.hawkinsmedical.com.au for current details and information. The doctors at Hawkins Medical Centre are all involved in the supervision of the RRAPP position through a regular roster system. The roster includes clinic consulting for eight sessions a week, one session a week of formal tutorial time, one session a week of elective work and one afternoon off. Recent feedback is strongly supportive of the program and the initial aim to provide junior doctors with broad and positive rural experience of high quality is a clear outcome to date.
Hawkins Medical CentreThe staff and doctors of the clinic have been enthusiastic supporters of the RRAPP program since 2000. We enjoy the opportunity to showcase this beautiful part of Australia and to demonstrate our enjoyment and commitment to rural general practice. The priority given to teaching at all levels was one of the reasons Hawkins Clinic was given Practice of the Year 2002 for SA and NT. Hawkins is a large group practice currently with 9 partners (two part-time) and four assistants and a RRAPP doctor serving 15-20,000 patients in the Mount Gambier area. All the doctors have chosen to be involved in supervising RRAPP doctors giving the opportunity to be involved in diverse areas of practice from GP obstetrics to acupuncture. We strive to provide longitudinal patient care with a strong emphasis on evidence based preventative medicine. To achieve this doctors consult at a rate which best suits their individual style. The clinic works from modern purpose built offices opened in 1974. Recent renovations have provided an improved treatment facility including additional consulting rooms and waiting areas. There is now a dental suite and 15 consulting rooms including one dedicated for use by RRAPP doctor. The consulting rooms are grouped so that they have their own patient waiting area with its own receptionist. This gives a large practice the feel of numerous smaller practices within the one building. Our treatment area runs like a mini casualty with 2 registered nurses and it includes separate treatment cubicles, ECG, vitalograph, gynaecological and plaster rooms. The clinic has its own audiometry annexe (to ASA standards) and separate consulting room for our practice mental health worker. Computer and permanent broadband internet access in every consulting room have been well used to improve patient care. The clinic intranet and digital photography are increasingly being used for rapidly tapping into in-house expertise and as a learning tool for all of the doctors. An increasing number of doctors in the practice are now using only the electronic medical record. There are numerous learning opportunities by joining GP registrar training days, GP continuing medical education program and by the vertical integration of teaching within the practice. Some of the RRAPP doctors choose to use their weekly elective session to visit allied health and specialists while others have developed specific procedural skills. Visit our website at www.hawkinsmedical.com.au. Mount Gambier is South Australia's second largest rural town. It has some of the most stunning scenery with its famous volcanoes, blue lake and the limestone coast nearby. Sports, restaurants, cinema, theatre, clubs and shops mean that the town has many of the features of a small city while being within the reach of a 10 minute vigorous cycle ride! For more information on the town see www.mountgambier.sa.gov.au Dr Mark Morgan, RRAPP supervisor. Presentations and ArticlesRRAPP Article August 2001: "Mount Gambier" and "Mount Gambier Doctor", Dr Lucie Walters and Dr Lucy McKinnon RRAPP Article March 2002: "Junior Doctors", Dr Amanda Howard For full versions of RRAPP Articles please refer to the RRAPP Newsletter on the ACRRM Website Photographs
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Updated August 24, 2007 |