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Promoting excellence in general practice and primary care through research, education and innovation.
It’s Loneliness Awareness Week. This year’s theme: Moments Matter.
Even a smile or brief chat can make a big difference.
Have you had a moment of connection recently?
💬 Share your story or read others' here: lonelinessawarenessweek.com.au
#MomentsMatter #LonelinessAwarenessWeekAU
🖤💛❤️ Today we celebrate National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day.
This year’s theme — “Little footsteps, big future” — honours the strength of culture, community and Country in shaping young lives.
👣 Proud. Strong. Connected.
#LittleFootstepsBigFuture #SNAICC #FirstNations
A web-based sexual health application using AI to identify the risk of a lesion being an STI from a photo is currently in development, however, the usefulness, accessibility and acceptability of this technology to potential users are unknown. Read more👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/cc7p
#research #sexualhealth
👋 Meet Chloe Dawes, our new GP Liaison & Placement Coordinator at the Dept of General Practice and Primary Care! She’s helping coordinate placements for MD students and working with 350+ clinics across Vic through VicREN.
Welcome, Chloe! 🙌
🔗 Learn about VicREN: go.unimelb.edu.au/647p
Meet A/Prof Kylie Vuong in our new “Get to Know Us” series! She researches how GP–patient trust shapes shared care, especially in cancer treatment.
Learn more on this topic: go.unimelb.edu.au/je7p
#PrimaryCare #PatientCentredCare #CancerCare
What are the factors that need to be considered to genuinely progress mental health lived-experience research?
Find out in this latest research: go.unimelb.edu.au/sn5p
@profmbanfield.bsky.social
@victoriajpalmer.bsky.social
#mentalhealth #research #livedexperience #primarycare
Congrats to Dr Amita Tuteja on receiving the 2025 RANZCOG Award! This award recognised her PhD research on developing culturally sensitive consent processes and creating a best practice resource for healthcare practitioners working with interpreters in refugee contexts.
#success #research #impact
The Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic has been updated! A recent symposium covered key changes, including sepsis and penicillin allergy updates. Catch up via our article and watch all 12 presentations here 👉 lnkd.in/gHRxkKtr
View the new guidelines 👉 lnkd.in/gv5H9mCg
#antibiotics #primarycare
It’s been over a decade since paediatric care quality in Australia was last reviewed. This new study examines changes in GP care and low-value interventions for 5 common childhood conditions.
Read more:https://go.unimelb.edu.au/q7fp
#childhealth #generalpractice #primarycare #intervention
GPs provide the most care to Aussie kids yet we lack data on what conditions GPs manage and refer. Understanding this could improve training, address inequities and support better models of care close to home. Read this article by Prof L Sanci & Ors
#primarycare #childhealth
go.unimelb.edu.au/y7fp
1 in 3 Australian men report using intimate partner violence — a confronting finding from the latest report from the Ten to Men study by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
🎧 Tune in to hear Prof @kelseyhegarty.bsky.social insights on ABC AM Radio
👉 lnkd.in/gXCC6smT
#ipv #dfv #primarycare
Australians have had access to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) for over two decades, yet only 10.8% of Australian women use it compared with France (27%) and Austria (23%).
To find out more, read the latest article: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#sexualhealth
GPs need sustained support to continue providing high-quality, accessible care. This goes beyond adequate funding or minor workforce adjustments. First-class care demands real investment, long-term commitment and the will to deliver lasting solutions.
#primarycare #generalpractice #familydoctor
It's International Clinical Trials Day!
Thank you to all the patients, practitioners and researchers across Australia who make this work possible. Your dedication and participation drives progress, informs policy and saves lives.
#ClinicalTrialsDay #CTD2025 #Research #PrimaryCare
Enhance your skills in youth mental health with our new 8-week, online micro-credential: Assessing and Enhancing Youth Mental Health in Primary Care.
Assess risk of suicide & self-harm, develop a safety management plan & conduct biopsychosocial assessments. go.unimelb.edu.au/7zjp
#youth #health
Ensuring that sexual health care is affordable, accessible and acceptable is key to improving population health. Discover the barriers young people face when accessing sexual health care and how this can be improved in our new article.
👉 buff.ly/gZ3wc4L
#research #sexualhealth #primarycare
Congratulations to Planning Saw and his team of UoM medical students for placing 4th overall in the 2025 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Comp in Atlanta, USA.
University students from around the world competed to develop a strategy to eliminate cervical cancer among women in Kenya.
#health
Free-text fields in clinical records often contain information that needs to be de-identified when sharing this data for research purposes. Many GPs use anonymisation tools to make this process faster.
Discover which tools were the most effective.
👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/27xp
#datascience #research
Introducing the new National Multidisciplinary Primary Care Research, Policy and Advocacy Consortium - a collaboration of 20 universities & 100 researchers across Australia improving primary care delivery & patient outcomes through multidisciplinary, team-based care.
go.unimelb.edu.au/q2xp
#letsgo
We are thrilled to introduce you to the newest member of our Department - A/Prof Kylie Vuong. Kylie is an experienced GP who brings an exceptional track record in research, teaching and leadership roles. Kylie's research focuses on cancer epidemiology and prevention in primary care. #welcome #cancer
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Read the new article on establishing priorities for meaningful service improvement for people with post-stroke aphasia by Lisa Anemaat, Victoria J Palmer, David Copland & Ors.
Read the full article here: lnkd.in/gXv3Ftqs
#mentalhealth #research #stroke #aphasia
@alivenational.bsky.social
New research shows patients with high-normal platelet counts have a greater risk of cancer with risk increasing as platelets & age increases.
Using PATRON, this study compared primary blood test results from 3 countries to examine the risk of cancer at different platelet counts.
#research #cancer
Meet Dr Caroline Kappelin, our visiting PhD student from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Caroline will be presenting her PhD project "Improving wellbeing and quality of life for individuals with multiple health conditions and common mental health problems in primary care".
#primarycare
Meet our new Academic GP Registrar, Dr Emily Thrower.
Emily's research project is titled: "Care after pregnancy loss: How can LGBTQIA+ people be better supported?"
In her spare time, Emily enjoys rock climbing, yoga & spending time with her baby & partner.
Welcome Emily!
#generalpractice #MD2025
Congratulations Dr Jimmy Tseng on winning the 2025 Dr Leon Carp Award!
Jimmy's research will concentrate on asthma interventions in high schools. We look forward to having him join the Department.
#winner #research #asthma #primarycare
Latest evaluation report for the Doctors in Secondary Schools program is in..
#highschool #adolescenthealth #primarycare #teenhealth
Fantastic turnout at the GP Supervisor Workshop on the weekend. Highest attendance in over four years!
There are 780 medical students doing general practice placements with us this year. That's a 10% increase on our figures from last year!
Has the GP drought broken?
#generalpractice #primarycare
Read the new article by Prof Jon Emery on the psychological impact of screening with a multicancer early detection test in The Lancet Oncology Journal.
https://buff.ly/40Gfk9j
#cancer #research #primarycare
Read the new article by Prof Meredith Temple-Smith on the 1910 syphilis experiment in Melbourne as part of the BMJ Centenary Series.
https://buff.ly/4jExUaC
#sexualhealth #STI #primarycare #research
Great turnout to celebrate #PHCNDay2025! Big thanks to Tracy Murphy for organising everything and to all those who contributed the tasty treats.
#primarycare #nurses #celebrate
