Meet real-life GPs

Are you ready to choose your future career?

Explore this page to discover why general practice is a great career choice. Read motivating stories about GPs, get a taste for the diversity of work within the general practice profession – and find the inspiration to follow in their footsteps.

Be sure to come back to this page, as we will be adding more dynamic GPs' stories on a regular basis.
 

Dr Heather Brand

"The way something new walks through my door every 12 minutes keeps me switched on, and it's far more challenging than many of the jobs I've done before. It gives me a wide variety of skills. It's amazing the breadth of the knowledge GPs do need to cover...and I get home and get to walk my dogs every day and enjoy the beach...life goes on outside of work."

Watch the rest of Heather's interview here.

Why choose GP?

Dr Heather Brand's presentation from the First Wave Workshop 2011

Dr Lachlan McIver

“As a rural generalist, I don’t do much in the way of the office-based or business side of general practice – there’s a lot more emergency, ward work and either anaesthetics, obstetrics or surgery than most GPs.

Nevertheless, a significant part of our training is still chronic disease management and primary health care.”

Read more about Lachie here.

 

 

Dr Jo Noble

Each fortnight Jo runs a bulk-billing clinic at a local women’s refuge, setting up in a room with her own medical kit. “It’s a safe place for the women to see a doctor and they really appreciate what I can provide.” She admits that one of her favourite roles is the one day each week she works at Hunter headspace in Maitland. “It’s a great set-up, with youth workers who triage all the patients and then refer them through to me and an in-house psychologist."

Read more about Jo here.