When the elephant awakens…
A chronic shortfall in doctors has led to a great increase in new medical graduates in Australia. What does this mean for emergency medicine and the training of junior doctors?
Category Administration
Why is everyone really so annoyed about the AHPRA social media guidance?
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has managed to enrage health professionals across the country over the last month with their new rules around advertising through social media. And, as when every other major organisation releases a social media policy, we have…
FACEMs at Night: An American Perspective
This is the first of two perspectives on whether FACEMs should work night night shifts, for the second, see Michelle Johnston’s ‘FACEMs at Night: A Mattress Stuffed with Flaw‘. My father, an active general surgeon who has been in practice…
FACEMs at Night: A Mattress Stuffed with Flaw
This is the second of two perspectives on whether FACEMs should work night night shifts, for the first, see Anand Swaminathan’s ‘FACEMs at Night: An American Perspective‘. Let us take ourselves one fact. One, simple, undeniable fact. One cannot, after all,…
The Blog is only as loud as the blogger
At LITFL and in the froth of #FOAMed we are constantly faced with a barrage of negative, cynical and disparaging comments on the role of the blog and social media in the provision of medical education and patient engagement
The Need for Brave Health Reform
Australia needs a brave health reform. We outline of the potential solutions which could improve the failing private health system in Australia.
Dr Finnbarr Walsh In Memoriam
Finnbarr was a wonderful man, a faithful friend and an amazing doctor. It is humbling to see how many lives he touched. Kind, compassionate and generous beyond compare, Finn truly was a gentleman and a scholar.