Articles

11th Aug 2006

The monkey in the mirror

First published: Friday, October 7, 2005

I only ever knew one of my grandfathers. He was, among other things, a Queensland Lightweight Boxing Champion and a disabled Gallipoli veteran. At about the age of eight, I remember accidentally bouncing a beach ball on his head. I floored him.

This taught me to be careful with Grandad. I’d known about his mangled arm but hadn’t realised bits of his skull were still in the Middle East.

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16th Mar 2006

Self-interest taints gp learning curve

By: Dr Con Costa

First published: Saturday, September 17, 2005

ONGOING education is a vital part of being a doctor – very little in medicine being still the same as when most of us left university. If you don’t keep up to date both you and your patients are in big trouble.

But recent criticisms of the postgraduate education system, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), is somewhat misplaced. Some doctors may be rorting the system – but most take it very seriously.

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