More Than Money - A Negotiating Guide for GP Registrars

GPRA have just released a guide for GP registrars about negotiating a win-win contract with their practice for training terms. It's a great resource to refer to and provides a good balanced approach to help with the process. Get it hot off the press from the GPRA website at http://www.gpra.org.au/negotiating-contracts

Get Social at SGPT

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Time to get social with your GP registrar colleagues! As your RLO's we are keen to encourage some more social events.  In the aftermath of the approaching RACGP exam some of you may be keen to emerge from your copies of Murtagh and do some mingling. There's an opportunity for each cluster group to get together for something fun. Let us know if you are keen to organise an event in your cluster group by emailing us.

Five Minutes in the Spotlight with... Ning Chuo

Ning was kind enough to spend five minutes basking in the glow of the RLO Rant spotlight. Here's what we discovered. 

Ning is currently a GP registrar working in Bairnsdale Medical Group. She is looking forward to an upcoming 6 months extended skills post in Sexual Health at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. Ning was born in Sibu, East Malaysia and lived in Brunei Darussalam after that. She moved to Australia in 2000 and studied at Melbourne University. She worked as a junior doctor in the Austin Hospital before seeing the light and moving to the green hills of Foster at the start of GP training. 

We asked Ning her thoughts about some tough questions:

My last meal would be: Fried Kuey Teow

When I was a child I wanted to become: a Japanese Manga comic artist. (Ning generously agreed to donate an original piece to the RLO Rant collection, displayed for you here). 

The hardest thing I've every done was: to hug my brother. He really isn't a very touchy-feely kind of guy.

The best thing about GP training is: knowing all the other GP registrars. 

I'm always being asked: "How do you like Bairnsdale?". The usual answer is "Great when I'm not on call!". The other question I always get asked is "Are you Chinese?"