The workplace - General Practice Specialty Training Program

General practitioners are responsible for all primary care in Australia. They encounter the range of adult and paediatric medical and surgical problems, in addition to obstetric, gynaecological, and psychiatric ailments. The majority of general practitioners work in private rooms, with an increasing number of GPs working in multi-doctor practices of four or more. Care takes place in an outpatient clinic environment, although GPs often have admitting rights in hospitals, especially in rural and regional centres. Thus there may be a small amount of inpatient work. In rural areas, GPs often have greater inpatient responsibilities, and may be involved in procedural work (e.g anaesthetics, obstetrics, surgery) and/or emergency care. There are some opportunities for GPs to undertake these areas of practice in metropolitan areas, but the scope is greater in the country. Common procedures performed by GPs in both rural and urban areas include skin biopsies and mole removal, cryotherapy, Pap tests, removal of foreign bodies and many others.

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