Teaching and Learning
In partnership with an outstanding team of general practitioner teachers, we make a strong contribution to teaching across the MD program. The Mayne Academy also supervises Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students, including general practitioners and other health professionals.
Handbook for GP Clinical Teachers
Handbook for GP clinical teachers for 2024 (Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 students) available here, or scan the QR code below. This booklet outlines information which we hope will assist you in your time with medical students during their General Practice placements.
A summary of GP placements (Year 2 vs Years 3 & 4) is outlined here, or scan the QR code below:
Resources for GP Clinical Teachers
Teaching in general practice
Teaching guides
- General Practice (Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 students)
- Handbook for GP clinical teachers for 2024. This booklet outlines information which we hope will assist you in your time with medical students during their General Practice placement.
- Medicine in Society (Year 3 students / Year 4 Ochsner students) - hospital-based placements
Claiming CPD points for teaching medical students in general practice:
- RACGP instructions
- ACRRM, instructions as per below:
- Login, Go to ‘My PD portfolio’
- Choose ‘Add an activity’
- Choose ‘Educational activity’
- Select ‘Teaching programs – presenting/facilitating/instructing’
- Complete the activity details.
GP2U: Experienced GP teachers offer tips and talk about challenges for teaching in general practice
- Teaching history taking, clinical reasoning and communication skills
- Learning procedural skills
- Feedback conversations with students
- Challenges for teachers
- 2019 Feedback in General Practice
- Reflections and tips from an award-winning GP teacher
Good teaching articles
If you are unable to access the full text, please email Associate Professor Nancy Sturman to send you the full article (and submit the Academic Title application in order to access the University of Queensland Library 
).
- Good teaching - top 10 strategies
- Teaching on the run - Doctors as teachers
- Teaching on the run - Teaching with patients
- Teaching on the run - Teaching a skill
- Teaching on the run - The under-performing junior doctor or student
- Reasoning for registrars: An overview for supervisors and medical educators
- Patient participation in general practice based undergraduate teaching: a focus group study of patient perspectives
- Medical students, early general practice placements and positive supervisor experiences
- Teaching medical students: Tips from the frontline
- Incorporating students into your practice
- Teaching clinical reasoning
- Brisbane general practitioner experiences of teaching medical students: Rewards, costs and challenges
- Integration of GP Registrars in general practice for teaching and learning (VITAL project)
- RACGP: Supervising Medical Students and prevocational doctors in General Practice
- GP Supervisors Association Teaching Plans: intended for work with GP Registrars, easily adapted for working with medical students
- Why and how do General Practitioners teach: An exploration of the motivations and experiences of rural Australian general practitioner supervisors
- A student's experience with Urban LlnCC (source: AMAQ)
Teaching about ethics and professionalism in general practice
General Practice placement (Year 2)
General Practice placement (Years 3 and 4)
The General Practice placement is a six week clinical block currently undertaken in either the third or fourth year of the medical program (as well as fourth year students studying at the Ochsner Clinical School in New Orleans). The three components of the placement are:
- Clinical placements in teaching general practices;
- Weekly small group tutorials; and
- Electronic learning materials developed and/or curated by the Mayne Academy of General Practice.
The placement is designed to support students to develop their clinical skills and to learn about -
- The discipline of general practice and general practice as a specialist career;
- Primary care and its interface with other health services; and
- A broad spectrum of clinical and ethical presentations which present and/or are managed in general practice.
For more information -
Senior Student and Academic Administration Officer (General Practice): Matthew Bloxsom
Student Coordinators: Sandra Comer and Natalie Best
Academic Coordinators: Associate Professor Nancy Sturman and Associate Professor Michaela Kelly
Applying for a UQ Academic Title
Apply for an Academic Title - In recognition of your contribution to the General Practice placement, we have a number of opportunities available for GP teachers to apply for an Academic Title. Benefits of becoming an Academic Title Holder an be viewed here.
Master of Medicine - MMed (Skin Cancer)
Master of Medicine - MMed (Skin Cancer)
Graduates will have a level of knowledge and diagnostic skill that will enable them to effectively manage a large proportion of skin cancer in their clinical work.
UQ’s postgraduate Skin Cancer medicine program is designed to give training in the biology, diagnosis and principles of management of skin cancer. It is suitable for doctors and health practitioners wishing to enhance their knowledge and skills in this area of practices. Both Graduate Certificate (1 year part-time) and Master (2 year part-time) level programs are available in this entirely external training. Further information is available here.
For more information -
Program Convenor: A/Prof Tony Dicker