GP Profile: It’s magic

By the very nature of their profession, GPs have to be skilled in a number of different areas and they are always learning and upskilling throughout their careers.

Dr Vyom Sharma, a young Melbourne GP who was awarded his RACGP Fellowship earlier this year, has spent much of his career in medicine developing extra skills. It is outside of the consulting room, however, that he has cultivated some of his most interesting abilities.

‘I was initially introduced to magic and performing in my fi rst year of university,’ he told Good Practice. ‘As a medical student who was sitting in lectures and tutorials with god-knows-how-many contact hours a week, it was very interesting to have this thing on the side.’

Sharma’s love of magic saw him take time off from medicine to perform in Australia and overseas, including at the Melbourne Comedy and Edinburgh Fringe festivals, but he never left his medical ambitions behind. While he initially started towards a career in surgery, the time Sharma spent away from full-time medicine gave him a much different perspective on his vocation.

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