Five Minutes in the Spotlight with Vin Rajeswaran

Vin is a GP term 1 registrar currently working in Bairnsdale. He lives there with his wife Tahlia and their 2 children. Vin grew up in Dindigul, a town in South India near Chennai. After completing his medical training in India, he moved to England for 2 years and then to Australia in 2006. Apart from medicine, he enjoys veggie gardening and cooking incredibly spicy food. Vin was put under the "RLO rant" spotlight recently - here's what he had to say:

My earliest memory is... being left by my father at the hospital where my mother was doing night shift as an obstetrician. He couldn't cope overnight!
My happiest moment was... when by two children were born.
At home I... cook - a LOT!
It's not fashionable but I love... farming.
The best thing about GP training is... having more time to spend with my family.
In five years I hope... to have built my dream house on my dream block of land.
What I don't find amusing is... people making generalisations about whole cultures.

The RACGP Online Exam

You may have heard that the RACGP written exam from now on will be a computer-based "online" exam. If you are interested in knowing more about what this involves, the following video may help:

We have had the opportunity to test drive the online exam and were very impressed with how slick it seems. To find out more, head to the RACGP online exam page.

Let the ranting begin!

There’s an old African proverb that says: If you want to go quickly go alone. If you want to go far, go together. We need to go far, quickly.*

This saying doesn't have anything to do with this blog, but a great blog needs a great opening line, and now this one does.

Welcome!

This blog is for registrars, supervisors, staff and interested onlookers in the Southern GP Training family in Gippsland. It is brought to you by your trusty Registrar Liaison Officers, who at the moment are Letitia Clark and Andy Linton. It will be a source of information, news, exam tips, registrar stories, and hopefully, fun. We'll send out this information in the monthly "RLO Rant" but if you want to get it while it's hot off the press, read it here first. You can also subscribe to our Twitter feed @SGPT_RLOEast.

Enjoy.