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Testing, Testing 1,2,3 Podcast
The Check-Up podcast by Medcast presents a 3-part series to support GPs to use pathology tests more effectively, and reduce the harms of non-rational test ordering.
READ ON![OA of the hip: The HIT Trial](/media/grioachz/blog-image-6.webp?width=800&height=600&v=1daf4a514d7f750)
Osteoarthritis is by far and away the most common form of arthritis in Australia.
![The Physical Activity in General Practice podcast series](/media/ecddzjmo/copy-of-blog-image-20.webp?width=800&height=600&v=1daf4a4f7de3600)
The Check-Up podcast by Medcast presents this engaging & exciting 5-part series, discussing the importance of physical activity.
![Grants for GPs & Nurses - are you eligible?](/media/hiscii0l/copy-of-blog-image-11.webp?width=800&height=600&v=1daf4a4ee333c40)
To help lessen the financial burden of keeping up with CPD, rural and remote health professionals (MMM 3-7) who would normally be required to travel considerable distances to attend courses, can access a range of state-based funding.
![Diabetes in General Practice](/media/p1jndufz/blog-image-1.webp?width=800&height=600&v=1daf4a4d5d26400)
It's one thing for a medication to demonstrate an effect in the narrowly selected, hermetically sealed and artificially monitored setting of a clinical trial.
![Better Together: GP Supervisor Education](/media/1iilanij/copy-of-blog-image.webp?width=800&height=600&v=1daf4a4bd002c50)
Q: What do fish and chips, Batman and Robin, and country and western music have in common?
![A tree change is in the wind](/media/1tnmoa2d/southern_highlands_trees.webp?width=800&height=600&v=1daf4a4b2303a90)
Change seems to be the theme of 2020. In our region, as with many in Australia, it started with bushfires, before a jump to the left into ‘COVID Capers’.
![PODCAST: Iliotibial Band Syndrome](/media/trgoieib/bigstock-runner-knee-injury-and-pain-wi-102216308.webp?width=800&height=600&v=1daf4a48bc0c050)
Milo, aged 26, comes to see you with lateral knee pain. As GPs how do we diagnose, treat and manage this?
![PODCAST: Blepharitis](/media/433hvfbj/bigstock-male-patient-with-stye-in-the-296717587-1.webp?width=800&height=600&v=1daf4a471ada430)
Paul is aged 40, and he comes to see you with persistent, red, sore, scratchy eyes.
![How can GPs stay up to date with the rapid changes in medical knowledge?](/media/hvvigeii/bigstock-197339062.webp?width=800&height=600&v=1daf4a3cf07ea60)
GPs are working harder than ever before, with longer, more complicated patients at a time when medical knowledge is changing and expanding faster than at any time in history.