Academic Skills Posts give Registrars the opportunity to experience research and teaching in a supported environment. This training activity is appropriate regardless of whether Registrars are interested in pursuing a career in General Practice research and/or teaching, or simply want to develop these skills and knowledge to include as part of future clinical work.
Through AOGP this post includes three components: a research project, a small teaching load and minimal clinical load. Registrars must have completed their GPT1 before undertaking an Academic Skills Post.
AOGP has strong links with the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Adelaide, where there are a number of experienced Academic Skills Post Supervisors. However Registrars have also been supported to undertake posts in other Universities and/or health related Departments where there were identified Supervisors with particular expertise in their area of interest. Registrars can choose to undertake these positions in rural or urban areas with appropriate academic support.
AOGP has developed an Academic Skills Handbook to assist interested Registrars. The handbook provides a guide for Registrars, from the consideration of an Academic Skills Post, through to application, and if successful, start-up and completion of the post. For further information about Academic Skills Posts, please contact the Research and Development Manager on 8366 3100.
Pictured above: Registrar Dr Kate Wylie with her research poster on 'Intimate Partner Abuse' Find out more about Academic Skills Post Registrar Dr Annie Lin and her research in this extract from GP Leader: The AOGP Expedition.