Education research grants - past recipients

Project title: Community-based training for community-based care: Can implementation of a medical student longitudinal integrated clerkship in an outer metropolitan region improve GP recruitment and retention, and a culture of academic practice in geographic areas of need?
Lead Researcher: Dr Denise Findlay
Research team members: Prof Carole Steketee, A/Prof Lewis MacKinnon, Mrs Felicity Roux, Dr Sammy Sharifeh, Dr Ramya Raman.
 

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Project title: Integrating registrars as Clinical Teachers 2 (INTERACT 2): Supporting GP registrars as Clinical Teachers in the General Practice training setting
Lead Researcher: A/Prof Caroline Johnson
Research team members: Dr Rebecca Starkie, Dr Anneliese Willems, Dr Niroshe Amarasekera, Bianca Vardanega, Jane Henty, Dr Angelina Salamone, Dr Wonie Uahwatanasakul, Dr Hok Lim, Dr Daniela Ramirez Duran

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Project title: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by GPs in training and their educators: the ‘what, when, where, why and how’ of using AI and its implications for training
Lead Researcher: Dr Linda Klein and Dr Lyndon Walker
Research team members: Prof Parker Magin, A/Prof Joel Rhee, Dr Skye Boughen, Dr Simon Morgan, Dr Tan Thien Quach, Dr Michael Tran, Dr Andrew Davey, Dr Alison Fielding, Dr Katie Fisher, Dr Angelo D'Amore, A/Prof Chinthaka Balasooriya, Dr Beth Turnbull, Ms Irena Patsan

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Project title: Increasing the rural and regional General Practitioner workforce through integrated pathways. A statewide approach.
Lead Researcher: Prof Lizzi Shires, Dr Sarah Prior, and Dr Sandra Coe
Research team members: Dr Bradley Williams, Dr Allison Turnock, Prof Jan Radford, Nara Jones, Dr Kathryn Ogden, A/Prof Anthea Dallas, Dr Lisa Clarke, Dr Sarvin Randhawa, Ms Lyndal Bond

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Project title: Improving supervision and learning of registrars, junior doctors and students in General Practice by developing an AI enhanced app-based nano-feedback tool
Lead Researcher: Prof Paul Worley
Research team members: Dr Amy Mendham, Prof Lambert Schuwirth, Dr Rachel Crook, Dr Nyoli Valentine, Dr Hamish Eske, Dr Ken Wanguhu, Dr James McLeod, Ms Stephanie Clota, Mr Darryl Cameron

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Project title: Informing stronger integration across all sectors of the GP education and training pipeline
Lead Researcher: A/Prof Matthew McGrail
Research team members: Dr Tiana Gurney, Prof Katharine Wallis, A/Prof Riitta Partanen, Dr Rory Melville, A/Prof Srinivas Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan, Dr Priya Martin, A/Prof Sneha Kirubakaran, Dr Jordan Fox

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Project title: Supporting best practice in the GP Clinical Learning Environment: development and validation of a benchmarking and quality improvement tool
Lead Researcher: Dr Samia Toukhsati
Research team members:  Ms Carla Taylor, A/Prof Rebecca Kippen, A/Prof Belinda O’Sullivan, Dr Charlotte Denniston, A/Prof Kevin Arlett, Prof Steve Trumble, A/Prof Jill Benson, Dr Justin Coleman, Dr Simon Morgan, Ms Leonie Chamberlain, Dr Simon Hay, A/Prof Scott Preston, Dr Lisa Clarke, Dr Kerrie Stewart, Prof Janice Bell, Dr Sophie Vasiliadis, Dr Kay Flynn, Ms Jo-anne Chapman, Mr Lachlan Butcher

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Project title: Where the rubber meets the road: Teaching and learning encounters between International Medical Graduate general practice Fellowship candidates and supervisors
Lead Researcher: Dr Tim Clement
Research team members: Dr Denise Ruth, Dr Jenny Huang, A/Prof Katrina Anderson

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Project Title: GP registrars as teachers in Australian general practice: a qualitative study
Lead researcher: Dr Katie Fisher
Research team members: Dr Alex Turner, Prof Parker Magin, Prof Dimity Pond, A/Prof Michelle Guppy, Dr Chris Starling, Dr Andrew Davey, Ms Irena Patsan, Dr Angelo D’Amore

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2022 RTO-led ERG program

The RACGP awarded four grants to RTOs in 2022 via a competitive process. Successful awardees undertook research projects aiming to improve general practice medical education and training, over a period of 12 months from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022.

GP Synergy

A qualitative exploration of the impact of telehealth in vocational general practice training
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GPEx

Understanding How to Promote and Sustain General Practice Supervisors' Wellbeing

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GPTQ

Becoming a general practitioner/rural generalist supervisor: registrars' and new fellows' perceptions of the incentives, enablers and barriers
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GPTQ

Registrar onboarding in general practice: exploring the views and experiences of GP registrars, GP Supervisors and practice managers
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Education Research Grant program 2022 Cohort Guide
 

2022 RSC-ERG program

The RACGP called for nominations of research priorities from a wide variety of stakeholders in August 2021. Following this process, the following three research projects were conducted in 2022:

1. A Synthesis of Education Research Grant Project activity, outputs, findings, and impacts 2015-2021, and implications for delivering a successful program of education research in Profession-led General Practice Training

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2. PERA: An exploration of the nexus between Practice Employment, Relationships and Assessment in Training Practices

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3. Capturing best practice RTO-led initiatives in general practice training

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GPEx

What should be in an early safety assessment? Lessons from the experts and RTO experience.

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GPEx

The financial costs and revenue associated with teaching and supervision in general practice.

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GP Synergy

The QUIT-CA Index (Questionable In Training Clinical Activities): associations of low-value clinical activities and relationship to RACGP Fellowship examination performance.

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Publication details:

Magin P, Ralston A, Tapley A, et al Low-value’ clinical care in general practice: associations of low value care in GP trainees’ practice, including formative and summative examination performance – protocol for cross-sectional and retrospective cohort study analyses using the Questionable In Training Clinical Activities (QUIT-CA) index BMJ Open 2022;12:e058989. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058989

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GP Synergy

Exploring the clinical experience of Practice Experience Program participants via an established patient encounter tracking and learning tool.

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GPTQ

Exploring GP medical educator and trainee perceptions of benefits, challenges and enablers to on-line and face to face teaching and learning in vocational GP training.

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GPTQ

Mind the gaps: preparedness of new general practitioner fellows for independent practice.

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GPTQ

Teaching and learning of Doctors' Health in Australian general practice training.

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MCCC

Supervisor and training Practice Audit, Development and Evaluation (SPADE).

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GP Synergy

What’s in a visit? Establishing the content and perceived utility of Clinical Teaching Visits (CTV) in different settings within Australian GP training.

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GPEx

Investigation of the adaptability, feasibility and utility of a Patient Encounter Tracking and Learning (PETAL) tool across different contexts in general practice.

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General Practice Training Queensland

Multisource Feedback: Performance and Reflectivity in Practice Experience Program.

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General Practice Training Queensland

A realist evaluation of an innovative supervisor training intervention with the aim of achieving safe and efficient consultation-based oversight, support and advice (COSA) which enhances registrar learning.

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Eastern Victoria GP Training

Developing a national GP Supervisor professional development curriculum.

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GPEx

Real-time learning logs in General Practice. Tracking in-consultation learning of general practice registrars.

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GP Synergy

A mixed-methods exploration of the utility of Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training (ReCEnT): a work-based assessment and Patient Encounter Tracking and Learning Tool (PETAL).

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Eastern Victoria GP Training

From trainee to GP: the role of feedback in promoting progression to independence.

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GP Synergy

Independent practice characteristics of early-career GPs in the two years post-Fellowship, and associations with training experiences.

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GP Synergy

A qualitative study of a peer mentorship program for GP registrars: exploring the experiences of registrar mentees and mentors and perceived impact on registrar training and subsequent job satisfaction.

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General Practice Training Queensland

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Medical Educators – Where do they come from? Exploring the barriers and enablers to becoming a medical educator.

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General Practice Training Queensland

Registrar-initiated oversight, support and advice: help-seeking in general practice training.

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Murray City Country Coast

Mapping the journey of the GP Registrar – Key learning experience in the first GP placement.

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Murray City Country Coast

Supervision of High Risk Early Consultations (SHREC) in GP Training.

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Education Research Grant - Special Grant Round

GPEx

The development of an evidence-based, practical and contextualized Work Based Assessment (WBA) framework for GP training and education.

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GP Synergy

Improving guideline compliance for prescription of benzodiazepines and related drugs in general practice registrars: a pragmatic trial employing a non-equivalent control groups design and post-intervention qualitative evaluation.

GP Synergy

Design, delivery and evaluation of an educational intervention for GP registrars in reviewing older patients’ medication regimens and de-prescribing inappropriate medications.

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EVGPT

Feedback exchanges, supervisory relationships and the educational alliance: implications for GP registrar and supervisor training and support.

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GPEx

Measuring the educational alliance with supervisors from the registrar perspective.

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GPTT

Supervising GP Registrars – who does and doesn’t participate and why?

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GPTQ

Global Assessment Tools in (medical) Education (GATE).

GPTT

Adapting and validating a tool to measure the supervisory relationship of GP supervisors.

GPTT

A qualitative study of the experience of GP supervisors and GP registrars in the management of older patients with chronic disease.

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