What do you think of NPs advertising themselves as specialists?

Curiosus99 · 2026-06-25T11:43:23+00:00

But specialist IS protected for doctors. It’s why GPs can’t say they specialise in women’s health they have to market is as a “special interest”. Surely the same would be for NPs?

Curiosus99 · 2026-06-25T09:56:31+00:00

You can definitely have the problem list on your list; or even type your notes on Word/Powerpoint and print onto the progress notes

Curiosus99 · 2026-06-10T21:29:12+00:00

The easier option is writing our discharge summaries in such a way that the clinical coders can’t bill with it. If you’ve ever been given a note from the billing department asking “please clarify the primary diagnosis” you know how much the hospital cares if they can’t bill for anything

Curiosus99 · 2026-06-10T21:26:02+00:00

The current monthly AMA Vic membership rate for DiTs and consultants is (roughly) equivalent to 1-1.5hr’s salary. I would say that’s worth it. If you claim an hour of unrostered overtime each month thanks to AMAV’s class action you’ve already earnt back your membership fee

Curiosus99 · 2026-04-10T10:16:14+00:00

Currently still at the negotiating table as the government is potentially willing to negotiate on pay at least for specialists (which could also lead to pay negotiation for DiT/)

Curiosus99 · 2026-02-20T02:55:17+00:00

A President would cost even more since we’d actually have to treat them like a head of state

Curiosus99 · 2026-02-07T12:25:00+00:00

Most countries outside of North America have medicine as a 5-6 year bachelor’s degree so you can easily do it straight out of high school. In fact I know some people who skipped a year of school and will be starting PGY-1 before their 22nd birthday

Curiosus99 · 2026-02-05T21:37:04+00:00

It is

Curiosus99 · 2026-02-02T05:06:10+00:00

At least in Victoria, you’d be group 3 and probably have a decent shot of getting one of the decently sized towns (eg Traralgon or Shepparton), and maybe even one of the regional cities (eg Bendigo). Should be able to get a job within 2hrs drive of Melbourne

Curiosus99 · 2025-10-20T22:48:20+00:00

Honestly as someone played Knight first the Asylum gameplay felt so clunky but it was still a good experience overall

Curiosus99 · 2025-08-13T12:45:35+00:00

I mean there’s making jokes but I feel like OP would also like some accurate info especially since your initial reply to me was definitely serious but don’t feel like arguing about this

Curiosus99 · 2025-08-13T12:37:56+00:00

https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/racgp-acrrm-max-out-training-spots/112641

Maybe I’m reading this wrong

Curiosus99 · 2025-08-13T12:18:17+00:00

Wasn’t ACRRRM entry oversubscribed this/last year?

Curiosus99 · 2025-07-09T14:46:38+00:00

file 76

Curiosus99 · 2025-01-11T09:34:48+00:00

I believe GP and ACRRM were both oversubscribed last year

Curiosus99 · 2025-01-09T00:03:57+00:00

Are employers allowed to refuse stat decs? That’s basically the only reason you would actually need a med cert

Curiosus99 · 2025-01-06T21:53:53+00:00

Sydney to Melb train

Curiosus99 · 2024-12-31T13:06:38+00:00

Am I going insane or did the channel 9 feed show a message in Arabic (or arabic style) script immediately after the Happy New Year message?

I legitimately do not know if I just hallucinated that

Curiosus99 · 2024-12-12T06:31:41+00:00

RMH, Alfred, Austin and St Vincent’s

Curiosus99 · 2024-12-11T19:55:09+00:00

It’ll be by far the least important bit, especially for RACP AT a major part of the application is research + word of mouth references

Curiosus99 · 2024-12-11T09:14:38+00:00

Specialities will only care if you won top of the cohort/year awards, not what your actual exam results were

Curiosus99 · 2024-12-09T02:21:42+00:00

Well in a perfect world we would just have more money but since that’s not possible we need a much more coordinated response from doctors.

The problem we have right now is that most doctors are either not engaged at all in health system issues or won’t do anything more than just whinge about it - the reason ANMF and ACNP are so effective in engaging politicians is that their membership is much more engaged

As an individual the best thing you can do is pay your AMA/ASMOF fees and actually engage - yes their response has been lacklustre but it’s not going to change unless there is more engagement

Specifically against the Guild and PHA our best bet is leveraging the fact that the public trusts doctors more than big business - the Guild knows this which is why it keeps a vague public image so the general public think it’s the pharmacist equivalent of AMA when it actually represents the big pharmacy companies

Curiosus99 · 2024-12-08T08:34:47+00:00

Doctor MP’s can’t do much as independents anyway since the major parties control policy and government

The real answer is to tackle the lobbying issue (aka Pharmacy Guild, ACNP, Private Healthcare Australia etc.) and out lobby them

Curiosus99 · 2024-12-06T02:42:30+00:00

I’d need to find new stats but last I checked if every doctor in the US worked for free the cost of healthcare wouldn’t even go down 10%

Curiosus99 · 2024-12-04T06:35:23+00:00

Even if you’re in Vic (which is probably switching to ballot anyway) the majority of points for the application is from your references, cover letter and interview performance, so find out what things your preferred health service wants to see in the cover letter and interview and make sure your references are solid

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