Rvts4gp's Podcast

“Syncope is a sudden, transient, self-limiting loss of consciousness associated with an inability to maintain postural tone”. In this webinar excerpt, Associate Professor Geoff Couser discusses an approach to patients presenting with syncope. Geoff (FACEM MEd) is a senior staff specialist in emergency medicine at the Royal Hobart Hospital and a Clinical Consultant with Ambulance Tasmania. He was discipline lead in emergency medicine at the University of Tasmania until 2017 and has authored numerous textbooks and papers relating to emergency medicine. Geoff outlines potential serious causes of syncopal episodes, as well as dealing with the uncertainty of unknown causes of collapse.

This month, Dr Sonia Singh discusses cultural communication in general practice. Dr Singh co-ordinated a session at the last RVTS workshop on “Cultural Diversity”. During the session, consults were presented by registrars in a traditional setting in their own language. Guessing the context of the consult from the dynamics and body language revealed implicit biases. The consultations were then spoken in English, followed by insightful discussions. Sonia speaks about the lessons learned:

In this webinar excerpt, John Kelly talks about cardiovascular risk

In this webinar recording, John Kelly discussed hypertension: diagnosis and management in the general practice setting.

In this webinar excerpt, Shirley Alexander discusses childhood obesity and gives very practical tips for GPs to implement.

In this interview with RVTS CEO and director of training, Pat Giddings, we discuss the RVTS Model which incorporates remote supervision and distance education in a model aimed at promoting workforce retention in rural and remote Australia.