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In this issueC1 Careers in Indigenous health
C4 Dr Kali Hayward: Indigenous GP
C5 Welcoming Indigenous patients to your practice
C2, C7 - C8 LocumsC9 Hospital AppointmentsC12 Executive AppointmentsC13 - C14 Medical EquipmentC15 Real Estate
Careers in Indigenous healthWORKING with Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples gives
doctors the opportunity to help
improve one of Australia’s most
pressing public health concerns:
“closing the gap” between the health
outcomes of Indigenous Australians
and other Australians.
“It’s an area of medicine where you
can make a big difference because,
sadly, health outcomes in Aboriginal
communities are still much poorer
than in other communities”, says
Dr Jenny Reath, deputy chair of the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health faculty of the Royal Australian
College of General Practitioners
(RACGP) and chair of general
practice at the University of Western
Sydney.
“You’ll see an Aboriginal patient
at the age of 30, presenting with the
disease pattern that you’d see in a
non-Aboriginal person at the age of 50”,
she says.
Dr Reath, who has worked as a GP in
Aboriginal community-controlled health
services (ACCHSs) for more than 30 years,
says that choosing to focus a medical career
on Aboriginal health can be incredibly
satisfying.
“Would I advise a junior doctor to
consider working in Aboriginal health?
Wholeheartedly. I’ve had an enormously
interesting, varied and rewarding career”,
she says.
And unlike some other specialties where
the job market is tight, career prospects
are plentiful for doctors with an interest in
Aboriginal health.
Job opportunities are advertised through
agencies such as the state-based rural health
workforce agencies (see www.rhwa.org.au for
a list of agencies). The Remote Area Health
Corps (RAHC) also has a Northern Territory
job list (see www.rahc.com.au).
There are several ways that doctors
can choose to work specifi cally with
Aboriginal people, including locum
work, fl y-in/ fl y-out placements,
living in a community, working in an
urban ACCHS, or conducting public
health research.
Dr Reath says that regardless of
the model used, the key to being
effective is establishing a trusting
relationship with patients.
“You can work in a community,
but if you haven’t got that trusting
relationship you won’t be effective.”
The importance of developing
trust means that doctors need
to be good listeners who take a
non-judgemental approach to their
patients. Other key attributes include
having good interpersonal skills and
being fl exible. Because doctors in
an ACCHS are actually employed
by the community, they need to be
comfortable working in a team and making
collaborative health decisions.
“The profession suits someone with an
interest in learning about different ways of
working. You need to have respect for the
people you’re working with”, says Dr Reath.
Working in an ACCHS gives doctors an
insight into the challenges — and resilience
— of Aboriginal communities. “You attend
funerals, but you also attend birthday
celebrations and weddings. You’re accepted
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as someone whose role is really valued in that
community and I think it’s a real honour to be
in that position.”
Working in Aboriginal communities,
particularly in rural and remote areas, allows
doctors to use their procedural and emergency
skills. Top-notch clinical skills are also needed,
particularly relating to infectious diseases
and chronic diseases such as cardiovascular,
endocrine and renal disease.
“It’s very much a third-world health picture.
You see the infections in children and the chronic
diseases as they get older. Sadly, the clinical
experience that I get working one day a week at
the ACCHS is probably far greater than I would
get in any other general practice situation.”
In addition to clinical work, doctors who
specialise in Aboriginal health are well placed
to pursue research and policy interests.
Dr Reath says the work often makes clinicians
“acutely aware” of the impact that system
failures have on health outcomes, and the
improvements needed, such as training of
health practitioners. Recognition of these
shortcomings often provides motivation and
ideas for further research and education,
she says.
Finally, Dr Reath emphasises that Indigenous
health is relevant for all doctors, not just those
working in an ACCHS. “There are Aboriginal
people attending almost any doctor, almost
anywhere in Australia, so it’s a matter of
identifying those people and working with
them to improve their health”, she says. See
page C5 for information on making your
practice accessible for Indigenous Australians.
TrainingThe RACGP Fellowship program includes a
compulsory curriculum in Aboriginal health.
Dr Reath says the college has a long-term goal
to develop further training for doctors who
want to work in Aboriginal health.
General practice registrars with an interest
in Indigenous health can undertake an
Indigenous health training post, usually in an
ACCHS (see the General Practice Education
and Training website, www.gpet.com.au).
Several other specialist colleges, including the
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal
Australasian College of Physicians, offer training
opportunities in Aboriginal medical services.
For doctors and other health workers,
various regional training organisations offer
education and training in Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander health. The National
Aboriginal Community Controlled Health
Organisation website (www.naccho.org.
au) provides a list of training organisations
under its “activities” section. State-based
rural workforce agencies also offer several
continuing professional development courses
including cultural awareness training. A list of
state agencies is available on the Rural Health
Workforce Agency website (www.rhwa.org.au).
The RAHC offers online training modules
for doctors interested in remote and
Indigenous health (see www.rahc.com.au).
The RACGP has also recently launched an
online cultural awareness training program,
available at www.gplearning.com.au. Further
resources are available at www.racgp.org.
au/aboriginalhealth.
Individual ACCHSs also sometimes provide
cultural safety training programs, which
have the advantage of being relevant to the
specifi c community. If you are preparing for a
placement in an ACCHS, ask the health service
for details of any local cultural safety programs
or cultural mentors.
Sophie McNamara
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Dr Kali Hayward is an Indigenous Australian from the Warnman
Clan of Western Australia and a mother of four children.
She completed general practice training in 2010, and is
now working at Nunkuwarrin Yunti, the biggest community-
controlled health organisation (CCHO) in Adelaide, as well as
part-time at a private general practice. She is a board member
of the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) and
also provides cultural awareness training to GP registrars
through the Adelaide to Outback GP Training Program.
Case Study
“My history is a bit different to most medical students. I left
school when I was 16, because I was pregnant. I got married at 17,
and went back and did my Victorian Certifi cate of Education when
my son was three. I knew I wanted to further my education and
initially I thought of doing health science. I knew that I wanted to
work in health, without actually voicing
that I wanted to be a doctor.
Growing up, I had never been seen by an Aboriginal doctor so studying
medicine wasn’t part of my thinking.
When I was 24, I enrolled in a science foundation course at
Adelaide University through their Indigenous unit, Wilto Yerlo. I
met some Aboriginal medical students and we got talking. It was
then that I said, ‘I want to do this too!’ Before that I’d never had
the opportunity to tell anyone that I wanted to become a doctor.
I thought no one would take me seriously. But after meeting the
students I fi nally plucked up the courage to voice what I wanted to
do. It’s really a testament to how well role modelling works.
Medical school was a struggle at times. When I started, there
were fi ve Aboriginal medical students at Adelaide University — the
biggest number they’d ever had at one time. Of the fi ve of us, I was
the only one who graduated. Quite early on, one person told us that
we should leave our culture at the door. We thought, ‘Well how can
we do that? That’s who we are, we can’t separate that.’ Because there
were fi ve of us we had a big enough voice to make some changes.
We looked at the curriculum, and we were sick of hearing the cases
where you’ve got an Aboriginal alcoholic male patient. Aboriginal
people are varied and face a lot of different health conditions. We
thought about how the cases used in teaching could be reworded
and changed so that medical students could learn appropriately.
My advice to younger doctors would be to make sure you have
strong support around you, because it can be tough, particularly
during that fi rst year of medicine. I’m lucky enough to have an
incredibly supportive husband, and I also received a scholarship
from the South Australian Government’s Aboriginal Health
Division and one from Rotary. If people want to support Aboriginal
health one of the best things they can do is support scholarships
for Aboriginal medical students. AIDA is also a great support
— particularly the symposiums every year which are fantastic to
rejuvenate the spirit.
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Working as a doctor for members of my community
was always my goal. I fi nd that doing two days at
Nunkuwarrin Yunti and two days in a private practice
makes me a better doctor for my community, because
there are certain things I see in private practice that I
don’t tend to see in the CCHO.
Being Aboriginal makes a huge difference in my interactions with Aboriginal patients. Building that rapport
and trust with the community is so important, and I
think if you’re Aboriginal yourself then, really, you’re
halfway there. It’s interesting with Aboriginal patients, the
fi rst contact is often partly about sussing out the doctor,
to see if you’re trustworthy and interested and open. Then
they’ll go to the community and report back — word of
mouth is really important.
At Nunkuwarrin Yunti, I typically spend 30 to 60 minutes with each patient, which is very different from
the private practice where I’ll spend about 10 minutes.
The patients at Nunkuwarrin Yunti are really challenging
and usually have very complicated issues, but when you
get those wins, it’s a great feeling. However, my medical
training didn’t necessarily teach me how to be a social
worker, or a detective, and that’s a lot of what my role is.
We do things like sourcing housing or referring patients
to social workers or psychologists.
One particularly rewarding moment I’ve had as a GP
was with an Aboriginal elder in our community. She said,
‘I’ve never been treated by an Aboriginal doctor before,
and you make me feel really proud to be Aboriginal.’
That was really an Aha! moment, when I realised it was
all worth it. It’s about breaking down those barriers, it’s
making our people know that it’s not just the bad news
that you see on TV every night. There are good things
happening in our community that weren’t happening 40
years ago.”
As told to Sophie McNamara
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TREATING Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander patients in private practice can
be rewarding both professionally and
fi nancially — but it does require fi rm
commitment.
The fi rst step towards ensuring your
practice is accessible for Indigenous
patients is to make them feel comfortable
when they walk through the door. That
doesn’t mean making big changes to
facilities and resources — but it can mean
a change of attitude, according to two
general practitioners who have ensured
their practices are welcoming to Indigenous
patients.
The next step is to become familiar with
Indigenous-specifi c services and payments
through the Medicare Benefi ts Schedule
(MBS), Pharmaceutical Benefi ts Scheme
(PBS), and state and local government
programs.
Dr Brad Murphy, a GP in Eidsvold, a
small town more than 5 hours’ drive north
west of Brisbane, Queensland, says even
something as simple as putting up posters
directly relevant to Indigenous patients can
make a difference.
Dr Murphy, chair of the Royal Australian
College of General Practitioners’ (RACGP)
National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Health and an Aboriginal
man from the Kamilaroi people of north-
west New South Wales, says it is also
important to have a transparent protocol in
place so patients can identify themselves as
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
He advises medical practices not to try to
reinvent the wheel to make their practice
more accessible,
but to use existing
expertise and
resources through
organisations such
as the RACGP
(www.racgp.org.
au/aboriginalhealth)
and the National
Aboriginal
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Dr Brad Murphy
THE PERSONAL REWARDSIt was an unexpected but welcome approach from local Indigenous Elders about two years ago that led Queensland general practitioner Dr Paul Johanson to make Indigenous health a major part of his practice.
He had completed a graduate diploma in rural general practice (now a fellowship in advanced rural general practice — www.racgp.org.au/fargp) with an advanced rural skills placement in Aboriginal health at a National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation health service before moving to his current practice in Brisbane’s northern suburbs — an eight-GP practice, including six part-timers, with four nurses and eight clerical staff.
The approach from the local Elders came via Queensland Health. Dr Johanson has since developed a close relationship with the Elders, which has helped to increase the number of Indigenous patients on the practice books from just 16 in 2008 to 212 at the end of March this year, with about 60% seeing Dr Johanson. Three other GPs in the practice also routinely see Indigenous patients.
Since that initial approach from the Elders, Dr Johanson now feels confi dent with Indigenous patients and is working with the Elders to develop a course to encourage more local GPs to become Indigenous friendly.
“Well meaning programs will not succeed without Indigenous community ownership
of both planning and implementation,” he says. “This requires a large shift for GPs to become responsive to consumer needs. It also requires patience with the process and keeping focused on the overall aim of improving Indigenous health.”
As with any patient group, there are pros and cons to treating Indigenous patients.
For Dr Johanson, the pros are the personal and professional rewards of providing primary care to a section of society with poor access and poor health outcomes, and seeing changes and improvements in people’s health. It also means meeting “wonderful and interesting people” and working as a team within the practice and with partner organisations for a shared purpose.
The cons include a reduced income — initially down to 76% of normal session income plus the unpaid time involved in community consultation. He is still assessing whether the new Medicare Benefi ts Schedule Practice Incentives Program Indigenous Incentive payments are making a difference to income.
Follow-up can also be a challenge with Indigenous patients, but he is developing ways to better manage this concern.
However, Dr Johanson is quick to point out that the “cons are offset by the pros”.
An article on Dr Johanson’s experience of providing better access to Indigenous patients appeared earlier this year in the Australian Family Physician (www.racgp.org.au/afp/201101/201101johanson.pdf).
Dr Paul Johanson and practice manager Marie Coleman have implemented a practice model that ensures the Majellan Medical Centre in the Brisbane suburb of Scarborough is Indigenous friendly.
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Community Controlled Health
Organisation (www.naccho.org.au).
Dr Paul Johanson, a GP in the Brisbane
suburb of Scarborough, recommends
making a connection with the Indigenous
people in the local community. He is
in monthly contact with Elders in his
area, with support from Queensland
Health (www.health.qld.gov.au/health_
professionals/indigenous). He also
emphasises the importance of cultural
awareness training for doctors and their
staff.
Dr Johanson says he believes few doctors
actively encourage Indigenous patients
due to myths about Indigenous health,
including that it is only a problem for
remote communities.
“The majority of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Australians live in cities or
major regional centres,” he says. This means
it is likely most GPs are in areas with an
under-serviced Indigenous population.
Dr Murphy agrees that if GPs in
particular made their practices more
Indigenous friendly, it would make health
services available to Indigenous people in a
sustainable way.
“And for the fi rst time in the history
of health funding, there are now real
incentives for sustainable improvements
in health care outcomes”, Dr Murphy says,
referring to additional funding including
items added to the MBS for Indigenous
health such as health checks, allied health
referrals and audiology access.
But to attract Indigenous patients,
practices must be prepared to bulk bill.
Both Dr Murphy and Dr Johanson say bulk-
billing is essential, particularly in specialist
practices. Dr Johanson refers almost all
his Indigenous patients to public hospital
services as no specialists in his area bulk
bill.
The lack of access to specialists is an
important issue in Indigenous health and
Dr Murphy wants specialist colleges to
do more to highlight the benefi ts of being
involved in caring for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander patients.
“A lot of the outreach clinic work
is currently done by older and greatly
experienced practitioners nearing the end
of their careers, and we need to encourage
more younger doctors to get involved.”
Dr Murphy urges GPs to negotiate with
specialists in their area to be available to
Indigenous patients by bulk-billing, and
to make their practice more Indigenous
friendly.
“This is a challenge when these services
are already oversubscribed and specialists
are working long hours as it is, and often
working between the public and private
clinics.”
Although both GPs admit that treating
Indigenous patients has unique challenges,
they agree that through cultural training,
knowledge of the MBS and PBS, and a mix
and match of available services, private
practices can be made more Indigenous
friendly.
The bonus for doctors is the personal
and professional satisfaction of making a
contribution towards closing the gap on
Indigenous health disadvantage.
“The Indigenous health gap is a product
of our society, which has otherwise
produced one of the healthiest nations
in the world. As primary care providers
we are responsible for working with the
Indigenous community to reduce this gap,”
Dr Johanson says.
Kath Ryan
continued from page C5
USING MEDICAREWith additional funding to treat Indigenous patients, comes the need to make sure Medicare services are billed appropriately, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ (RACGP’s) Dr Brad Murphy says.
“No one teaches us the business of Medicare,” he says, which is why he is keen to develop postgraduate qualifi cations for Indigenous health that include details on making it sustainable in private practice.
The RACGP’s National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health is developing the postgraduate course that will give general practitioners seeing Indigenous patients confi dence that they are billing Medicare appropriately, while working towards the better health outcomes desired by all.
“Nobody wants to be ripping off Medicare. We need to claim correctly and feel safe that the information provided is right,” Dr Murphy says.
Even Medicare has challenges in interpreting aspects of the new item numbers relating to Indigenous health. Dr Murphy says if a doctor were to ring Medicare three times with the same query, he or she was likely to receive three different responses, making this an additional barrier for private general practices.
Another important issue to be
included in the course is correctly identifying Indigenous patients when making Medicare claims.
“Someone needs to write the model, ticked off by Medicare, so practices can maximise opportunities for better outcomes for Indigenous patients, without compromising the practice’s bottom line. Otherwise it becomes a disincentive and a further barrier to providing better health outcomes,” Dr Murphy says.
One of the major additions to the Medicare Benefi ts Schedule was the Practice Incentive Program’s Indigenous Health Incentive, introduced last year. It aims to support general practices and Indigenous health services to provide better health care as a key part of the Australian Government’s Closing the Gap strategy to reduce Indigenous disadvantage. The guidelines are available under the “For health professionals” tab on the Medicare Australia website (www.medicareaustralia.gov.au).
Queensland GP Dr Paul Johanson also advises doctors to become familiar with additional Pharmaceutical Benefi ts Scheme (PBS) items, including the Closing the Gap — PBS Co-payment Measure (www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/provider/pbs/pharmacists/closing-the-gap.jsp), to help Indigenous patients properly access health services.
As primary care providers we
are responsible for working with the Indigenous community to
reduce this gapDr Paul Johanson
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Certifi ed copies of tertiary qualifi cations and other appropriate documentation must be presented on request.
This process may also be used for a possible future vacancy in Port Moresby as Medical Offi cer 4.
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Auckland is a big city with big opportunities for doctors like you. If you’re a 2nd, 3rd or 4th year HO looking to gain exceptional experience or if you are a Registrar on a dedicated vocational pathway, take a look at what Auckland has to offer you – as a professional, and as a person.Applying: For 2011/12 positions you will need to complete the online application via www.aucklanddoctors.co.nzTo assess whether you are eligible to work and gain NZ Medical Council Registration within New Zealand please visit www.immigration.govt.nz and www.mcnz.org.nz
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Sir Richard Stawell Memorial PrizeInquiries:Ms Jane StephensCEO AMA Victoria Ltd
telephone: (03) 9280 8736
email:[email protected]
The Medical Society of Victoria Inc. as trustee of the Sir Richard Stawell Memorial Fund, is pleased to announce arrangements for the award of the Sir Richard Stawell Memorial Prize.
This prize, which commemorates Sir Richard Rawdon Stawell (1864-1935), graduate of the University of Melbourne, eminent physician and educator, will be awarded for an article published in the Medical Journal
of Australia in 2011, which is on a medical subject of clinical significance. The amount of the prize will be $2,000.
The prize will be announced at the first meeting in 2012 of the State Council of the Medical
Society of Victoria Inc (also the Council of AMA Victoria Ltd), and the prize winner will be asked to address the Council at the Special Council Meeting of the Society, to be held in May.
The winner of the prize for 2010 is:
Kathryn L Hackman Claudia GagnonRoisin K Briscoe Simon LamMahesan Anpalahan Peter R Ebeling
Efficacy and safety of oral continuous low-dose versus short-term high-dose vitamin D: a prospective randomised trial conducted in a clinical setting. Medical Journal of Australia, 2010; 192 (12): 686-689.
Highly commended is:
Alexander B Willson David Mountain
Joanne M Jeffers Cheryl G Blanton
Brendan M McQuillan Joseph Hung
Michael H Muhlmann Michael C Nguyen
Door-to-balloon times are reduced in ST-elevation myocardial infarction by emergency physician activation of the cardiac catheterisation laboratory and immediate patient transfer.Medical Journal of Australia, 2010; 193 (4): 207-212.
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Australian Rotary Health invites applications from individuals or research teams in clinical or public health fields for grants
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This offer is the only funding available for Mental Health research grantsfor 2012. The traditional research project grants, PhD Scholarships and
Post-Doctoral Fellowships are not available this year.Applications are sought from all States and Territories of Australia.
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This book offers clear and well presented guidance on basic surgical skills, with ample line drawings and tables providing essential visual assistance. An ideal text for those new to basic surgery or any practitioner wishing to clarify correct techniques and which materials and tools are appropriate for each surgical situation.
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