GPSA Podcast

High quality in-practice teaching is a cornerstone of effective supervision in general practice training. This podcast explores how supervisors can identify and respond to their registrars’ individual learning needs, ensuring that their teaching is targeted, engaging, and aligned with the registrar’s stage of training.

This podcast explores the enablers and best practice strategies for integrating medical students into the general practice environment – in ways that balance learning with practice efficiency and clinical workload. We consider practical approaches to creating a positive learning environment, orientating students, involving them meaningfully in patient care, and giving effective feedback.

​This podcast gives you practical strategies to make your practice stand out and unpacks the new Federal Government GP Training incentives starting in Semester 1, 2026 – and what they mean for both practices and registrars.

It is widely recognised that international medical graduates (IMG) can face multiple potential challenges in navigating GP training. Supervisors therefore need a thorough understanding of the range of cultural, communication and other issues facing IMG registrars.

This podcast aims to assist GP supervisors to better support IMG GP registrars training in their practices.GPSA resources https://gpsa.org.au/supporting-the-img/

In this podcast we provide a comprehensive framework to help you ensure that your registrars possess the basic business knowledge required as they transition from an employee model to self-employment in general practice.

This special podcast commemorates World Family Doctor Day (WFDD), celebrated annually to recognise the contributions of family doctors worldwide. This year's global theme, "Building Mental Resilience in a Changing World," emphasised the pivotal role of family medicine in supporting mental health and resilience.

A panel of international GPs talk about general practice in their home countries of Denmark, New Zealand and Timor Leste.

In 2024, we partnered with women GPs to design resources and programs to support and encourage more women to step into GP supervision roles - helping grow the next generation of GP supervisors.

In this podcast hear from a diverse panel of women - including aspiring, novice and experienced GP supervisors, college representatives and a practice manager - as they discuss their experiences about becoming part of the supervision community.

Find out more https://gpsa.org.au/orientation-to-gp-supervision/

This webinar encourages supervisors to reflect on their own knowledge, confidence and skills in working with families to support child mental health. It also discusses transferable skills that can be applied when working with children and families to better support child mental health. GPSA Teaching Plans can be found here https://gpsa.org.au/our-resources/supervision-support/

This podcast will help hone your supervision skills to be an effective and skilled procedural skill supervisor.

The use of video-recorded consultations in general practice training is a highly valuable educational tool. By reviewing their real-life consultations, registrars can engage in reflective practice and genuinely self-assess their consultation, communication and reasoning skills. Furthermore, video-recorded consultations enable supervisors and educators to assess registrar performance with a level of detail that is not possible through traditional observation. This can result in more focused feedback and a deeper understanding of areas needing improvement.

This podcast discusses the medico-legal considerations, including patient consent, data protection, and confidentiality.

Investigations play a critical role in the diagnosis, monitoring and screening for disease in general practice. And the use of such tests is increasing both in Australia and internationally. While some of this increase is appropriate, a growing body of evidence suggests that non-rational testing is a significant problem. This is costly and problematic for GPs but also poses significant harm to patients.
Registrars, especially those new to general practice, are at particular risk of non-rational test ordering. Supervisors can play a key role is supporting this critical aspect of practice. A number of strategies have been described for the most effective and appropriate use of tests in the general practice setting.

This podcast provides the latest updates on training and supervision and streamlined processes. Including a sneak peek at the ACRRM sponsored “Supervisor Summits” for 2025.

This podcast uses a clinical case study to explore the causes of diagnostic error and discuss practical and teachable strategies to minimise diagnostic error in clinical practice.

This podcast discusses a range of practical tips and resources that the GP supervisor can use to help their new registrar safely and smoothly settle into the practice at the commencement of training.

This podcast outlines the components of clinical yarning and discusses other components of communication and how to utilize them during a consultation.

This podcast explores how to identify neurodiversity in registrars, whether formally diagnosed or not, and develop strategies to support them to thrive intheir role.

GPSA's admin update for AGPT training in 2025

This podcast uses the topic of smoking cessation to explore the current understanding of motivational interviewing. It focuses on practical strategies for teaching registrars about approaches for providing brief advice to all patients who smoke.

This podcast uses the topic of smoking cessation to explore the current understanding of motivational interviewing. It focuses on practical strategies for teaching registrars about approaches for providing brief advice to all patients who smoke.

This podcast part 2 explores the factors contributing to challenging patient behaviour and introduce a framework to ‘classify’ the challenging patient. It also introduces generic ways in which the supervisor can support their registrar. View resources here https://community.gpsa.org.au/topics/2025/media_center/folder/f91541c6-bc13-4a14-b29c-39cc6d79a293

This podcast explores the factors contributing to challenging patient behaviour and introduce a framework to ‘classify’ the challenging patient. It also introduces generic ways in which the supervisor can support their registrar.

This podcast is the third in the mini-series aimed to help supervisors support new GP registrars at the start of their community training. It will address some of the priority learning needs of GP registrars and how supervisors can best support them.

If you would like to access the resources mentioned in the podcast and discuss this topic further please click here https://community.gpsa.org.au/topics/2025/media_center

GPSA research project on the best practice learning environment

We are trialling a benchmarking and quality improvement tool to support training practices to meet best practice standards in vocational training. Your experiences and expectations in GP training are needed to help us test and refine this tool to ensure that it is feasible and appropriate for use in the general practice context. We are seeking feedback on our tool from anyone involved in GP training. Click here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CJQQ62G

This podcast presented by ACRRM's General Manager of Education Services, Kyra Moss; Training and Engagement Manager, Isabel Broderick; and Fellowship Manager, David York provides information on the key changes made at ACRRM and updates on placements and processes.