Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
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The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners is the professional body for General Practitioner
s in Australia
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The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is responsible for maintaining standards for quality clinical practice, education and training, and research in Australian general practice. The RACGP has the largest general practitioner membership of any medical organisation in Australia, with the majority of Australia's general practitioners belonging to their professional college. Over 22,000 general practitioners are members of the RACGP Continuing Professional Development Program. The RACGP National Rural Faculty, representing more than 5000 members, has the largest rural general practitioner membership of any medical organisation in Australia. The RACGP publishes Australian Family Physician
, Australia's main peer-reviewed academic medical journal for general practitioners.
As the Australian population grew post World War II, the public hospital
system also grew demanding an increasing number of specialists. Local training program emerged and therefore the ability of a doctor to enter specialist training directly following the mandatory intern year post graduation without entering general practice. This increasing number of specialist made it increasingly difficult for general practitioners in Australia to hold and retain public hospital appointments, especially in procedural areas such as surgery
or obstetrics
.
This was not a uniquely Australian phenomenon. Worldwide, medical practice was shifting focus onto hospitals with the expansion of pharmaceuticals and medical and surgical interventions. In the United States, the number of doctors identifying as General Practitioners fell markedly between 1931 and 1974 from 83% to 18%. This process began as specialisation increased prior to the War. US GPs increasingly felt that health care was becoming fragmented and weakening doctor patient relationships.
Dr Collings’ report was scathing and generated immediate and heated interest. It was undoubtably a key event in the definition of general practice as a "speciality."
He identified that general practice has no academic underpinning, no evidence upon which to base practice and no consistency of practice. The report did not pull punches. He described rural practice is “an anachronism”, suburban practice is a “casualty-clearing” service and Inner city practice is “at best… very unsatisfactory and at worst a positive source of public danger.”
There is a direct link between the public criticism of general practice and the move to create a College. Dr Rose and Dr Hunt in the BMJ 1950 write:
Interestingly, there was opposition in the UK to the creation of a College by the existing three Medical Colleges – Colleges of Surgeons, Physicians and Obstetricians and Gynaecologists – who held the belief that general practice should be a joint faculty of general practice linked to the existing Colleges. However, put into perspective, in the same document Hunt describes the two original British Colleges sought to stop the creation of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists via legal action in 1929.
was formed in 1953 with many Australian doctors amongst the founding members including the RACGP’s first president Dr William Connelly. Dr Connelly, again reflecting the origins of Australia as a series of British colonies, established a New South Wales faculty of the BCGP. This was followed by the creation of other state based faculties of the British College of General Practitioners in Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia over the next 5 years.
In keeping with the process for creating Medical Colleges under the British system, a group of Australian General Practitioners met in 1957 at the first Annual Scientific Convention in Sydney to declare an intention to form the Australian College of General Practitioners (ACGP) which was formally founded in 1958. This new College joined the state based faculties. State based faculties remain a key part of the modern day function of the RACGP.
The oddity of general practice in Australia is a lingering and arguably outdated perception that the decision to practise as a GP has low or no standing and status. Comments heard by many GPs including; ‘You are just a GP’ or ‘What do you intend on specialising in?’ reflect something of the community understanding of the General Practitioner.
This is not without precedent. The history of the General Practitioner shows that GPs in early Australia through to GPs in mid and late 20th century, ‘defaulted’ into general practice having disliked surgical or physician training or having failed exit exams too often.
Also, while Australian General Practitioners were part of the creation of the Royal College of General Practitioners and instrumental in highlighting the need for professional and practice standards, Australia was one of the last developed countries to recognise general practice as a specialty. It was 1978 before the National Specialist Qualification Advisory Committee (the predecessor to the Australian Medical Council) recognised general practice as a specialty. In contrast, The United Kingdom had a powerful case for recognition by the late 1960s, and the United States recognised general practice in 1969.
Demonstrating again the slow shift towards recognition, Australia was late in accepting that general practice should be taught or regarded as a discipline in its own right. The Whitlam government’s Karmel committee into ‘Expansion of Medical Education in Australia’ compromised with departments of ‘community medicine’ – a confusing anachronism that persisted for many years in Australia’s tertiary institutions. The RACGP sought strongly but unsuccessfully that this committee accept general practice into the universities.
Today, general practice is listed or has been added along side community medicine, highlighting the shift since the early 1970s (e.g. Department of General Practice and Community Medicine Monash University)
Nine foundation professors of ‘Community Practice’ were appointed between 1974 and 1976. Again Australia lagged behind the US and the UK who appointed their first professors and Chairs of general practice and family medicine in 1967 and 1963 respectively.
The Foundation professors were:
Notably, many did not hold general practice qualifications either from Australia or international.
The definitive point in Australian General Practice came with the textbook General Practice.
John Murtagh was a science teacher in rural Victoria who return to study Medicine at the first intake of Monash University. John Murtagh has along academic association through Monash University becoming the first Professor of General Practice (Neil Carson was Professor of Community Medicine). He remains with teaching positions at Monash University as Professor in General Practice, University of Notre Dame as Adjunct Clinical Professor and Melbourne University as Professorial Fellow.
He was associate medical editor of the Australian Family Physician (the RACGP peer reviewed journal) in 1980, editor in 1986 and held that position until 1995. He began the popular CHECK (Continuous Home Evaluation of Clinical Knowledge), he also held the position of Executive Director of Training at the RACGP at the turn of the 21st century. The RACGP library is named after John Murtagh., offering a wide range of services to Members, registrars and all health professionals working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Services.
His companion publication Practice Tips was named as the British Medical Association's Best Primary Care Book Award in 2005. He received a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medicine, in particular, medical education, research and publishing.
Ian Dingwall Grant
Joseph Silver Collings
Kenneth Macd Foster
Gilbert S McDonald
Sir Theodore Fox
William Victor Johnston
Sir Clive Hamilton Fitts
Trevor Corey Beard
Carroll Lewis Witten
Bruce Toomba Mayes
Richard Roderick Andrew
Geoffrey Malcolm Badger
HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh
Sir Kenneth Beeson Noad
Professor Eric Galton Saint
Prakash Chand Bhatla
Sir Mark Oliphant
Geoffrey C Bolton
David C Jackson
Sir Stanley Burbury
Sir Edward Hughes
Senator Peter Baume
Justice Kemeri Murray
Professor David Maddison
Stuart Patterson
Sir Ninian Stephen
The Most Reverend Dr Peter Carnley
Associate Professor Byan Gandevia
Ms Katherine West
Professor Stephen Leeder
Professor Ralph Doherty
not held
Dr Keith Bolden
Professor Max Charlesworth
The Most Reverend Dr Keith Rayner
Dr William Faulding Scammell CBE
Professor Richard Smallwood
Associate Professor David Bennett
Dr Reg L Perkin
Dr John Stevens
Emeritus Professor Neil Carson
Dr David A Game
Professor Dame Lesley Southgate DBE
Professor W Bruce Connolly
Professor Judith Belle Brown
Professor Wesley Fabb AM
Professor Max Kamien AM
Dr Ngaire Brown
Professor Ian Frazer
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The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is responsible for maintaining standards for quality clinical practice, education and training, and research in Australian general practice. The RACGP has the largest general practitioner membership of any medical organisation in Australia, with the majority of Australia's general practitioners belonging to their professional college. Over 22,000 general practitioners are members of the RACGP Continuing Professional Development Program. The RACGP National Rural Faculty, representing more than 5000 members, has the largest rural general practitioner membership of any medical organisation in Australia. The RACGP publishes Australian Family Physician
Australian Family Physician
The Australian Family Physician is a peer reviewed medical journal published by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. The journal was first published in 1956 as the Annals of General Practice, changing its name to Australian Family Physician in 1971...
, Australia's main peer-reviewed academic medical journal for general practitioners.
History of General Practice in Australia and beyond
Prior to the mid 20th century, upon graduation Australian doctors spent time in general practice. A medical career usually included completing an intern year immediately after graduation as a resident in a major teaching hospital. After a period of time in general practice, some doctors would seek specialist qualifications. Possibly reflecting the historical origins of Australia as a series of British colonies, these doctors would travel overseas, most often to the UK, to specialise and then return to establish practice.As the Australian population grew post World War II, the public hospital
Public hospital
A public hospital or government hospital is a hospital which is owned by a government and receives government funding. This type of hospital provides medical care free of charge, the cost of which is covered by the funding the hospital receives....
system also grew demanding an increasing number of specialists. Local training program emerged and therefore the ability of a doctor to enter specialist training directly following the mandatory intern year post graduation without entering general practice. This increasing number of specialist made it increasingly difficult for general practitioners in Australia to hold and retain public hospital appointments, especially in procedural areas such as surgery
Surgery
Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...
or obstetrics
Obstetrics
Obstetrics is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy , childbirth and the postnatal period...
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This was not a uniquely Australian phenomenon. Worldwide, medical practice was shifting focus onto hospitals with the expansion of pharmaceuticals and medical and surgical interventions. In the United States, the number of doctors identifying as General Practitioners fell markedly between 1931 and 1974 from 83% to 18%. This process began as specialisation increased prior to the War. US GPs increasingly felt that health care was becoming fragmented and weakening doctor patient relationships.
“There are 57 different varieties of specialist to diagnose and treat 57 different varieties of disease but no physician to take care of the patient."
Development of Professional Colleges
In 1950, an Australian Graduate, Dr Joseph Collings, conducted a review of general practice in the UK. This 30 page report was published in the Lancet in 1950.
“There are no real standards for general practice. What a doctor does and how he does it depends entirely on his own conscience” Dr Collings, 1950.
Dr Collings’ report was scathing and generated immediate and heated interest. It was undoubtably a key event in the definition of general practice as a "speciality."
He identified that general practice has no academic underpinning, no evidence upon which to base practice and no consistency of practice. The report did not pull punches. He described rural practice is “an anachronism”, suburban practice is a “casualty-clearing” service and Inner city practice is “at best… very unsatisfactory and at worst a positive source of public danger.”
There is a direct link between the public criticism of general practice and the move to create a College. Dr Rose and Dr Hunt in the BMJ 1950 write:
“There is a College of Physicians, a College of Surgeons, a College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, a College of Nursing, a College of Midwives and a college of Veterinary Surgeons, all of them Royal Colleges; there is a College of Speech Therapists and a College of Physical Education, but there is no college or academic body to represent primarily the interests of the largest group of medical personnel in this country – the 20,000 general practitioners.”
Interestingly, there was opposition in the UK to the creation of a College by the existing three Medical Colleges – Colleges of Surgeons, Physicians and Obstetricians and Gynaecologists – who held the belief that general practice should be a joint faculty of general practice linked to the existing Colleges. However, put into perspective, in the same document Hunt describes the two original British Colleges sought to stop the creation of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists via legal action in 1929.
The Development of the Australian College of General Practitioners
The British College of General PractitionersRoyal College of General Practitioners
The Royal College of General Practitioners is the professional body for general practitioners in the United Kingdom. The RCGP represents and supports GPs on key issues including licensing, education, training, research and clinical standards. It is the largest of the medical royal colleges, with...
was formed in 1953 with many Australian doctors amongst the founding members including the RACGP’s first president Dr William Connelly. Dr Connelly, again reflecting the origins of Australia as a series of British colonies, established a New South Wales faculty of the BCGP. This was followed by the creation of other state based faculties of the British College of General Practitioners in Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia over the next 5 years.
In keeping with the process for creating Medical Colleges under the British system, a group of Australian General Practitioners met in 1957 at the first Annual Scientific Convention in Sydney to declare an intention to form the Australian College of General Practitioners (ACGP) which was formally founded in 1958. This new College joined the state based faculties. State based faculties remain a key part of the modern day function of the RACGP.
The Objectives of the Australian College of General Practitioners
This College established the following objectives:
- To promote a scientific approach to problems of disease at the level of the individual and the family;
- To promote the prevention of disease and guard the nation’s health and the welfare of the community by every means available to the general practitioner;
- To foster and maintain high standards of general practice;
- To encourage and assist young men and women in preparing for, qualifying in and establishing themselves in general practice;
- To stimulate postgraduate education of general practitioners by providing facilities applicable to general practice; and
- To conduct clinical research into conditions most frequently seen and appropriately studied in general practice.
Recognition of General Practice as a medical specialty
In modern Australia, General Practice is listed by the AMC as a medical specialty and the RACGP as the specialist college responsible for assessment, as endorsed by the Medical Board of Australia inaugurated in 2010. Yet, on further examination of how general practice is considered across the nation, some of the now-defunct State-based Medical Practitioners’ Boards such as Victoria, Queensland and South Australia, did not consider general practice a medical specialty and general practice qualifications, such as the Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) were not registrable qualifications. The practical implication of the nationalisation of medical registration on the status of General Practice as a medical specialty may be unclear.The oddity of general practice in Australia is a lingering and arguably outdated perception that the decision to practise as a GP has low or no standing and status. Comments heard by many GPs including; ‘You are just a GP’ or ‘What do you intend on specialising in?’ reflect something of the community understanding of the General Practitioner.
This is not without precedent. The history of the General Practitioner shows that GPs in early Australia through to GPs in mid and late 20th century, ‘defaulted’ into general practice having disliked surgical or physician training or having failed exit exams too often.
Also, while Australian General Practitioners were part of the creation of the Royal College of General Practitioners and instrumental in highlighting the need for professional and practice standards, Australia was one of the last developed countries to recognise general practice as a specialty. It was 1978 before the National Specialist Qualification Advisory Committee (the predecessor to the Australian Medical Council) recognised general practice as a specialty. In contrast, The United Kingdom had a powerful case for recognition by the late 1960s, and the United States recognised general practice in 1969.
Strengthening general practice
The standing of general practice within academic faculties of universities and professionally has undergone a marked increase in recent decades. The RACGP has been a key driver of this shift. The development and consolidation of training programs, standards for training, standards for practice, curriculum of general practice and various evidence based guidelines and publications have occurred internally within the College. Outside of the College there are a few important events:Academic General Practice
Demonstrating again the slow shift towards recognition, Australia was late in accepting that general practice should be taught or regarded as a discipline in its own right. The Whitlam government’s Karmel committee into ‘Expansion of Medical Education in Australia’ compromised with departments of ‘community medicine’ – a confusing anachronism that persisted for many years in Australia’s tertiary institutions. The RACGP sought strongly but unsuccessfully that this committee accept general practice into the universities.
Today, general practice is listed or has been added along side community medicine, highlighting the shift since the early 1970s (e.g. Department of General Practice and Community Medicine Monash University)
Nine foundation professors of ‘Community Practice’ were appointed between 1974 and 1976. Again Australia lagged behind the US and the UK who appointed their first professors and Chairs of general practice and family medicine in 1967 and 1963 respectively.
The Foundation professors were:
- Charles Bridges Webb MD FRACGP, Sydney University. Professor of Community Medicine
- Max Kamien MD FRACP, MRCP, FRACGP, DPM, DCH University of Western Australia. Professor of General Practice
- Professor Neil Edwin Carson FRACGP FRACP Professor of Community Medicine Monash University
- Jean Norella Lickliss MD MRACP, FRCP BMedSc DTM&H Professor of Community Medicine University of Tasmania
- Timothy George Murrell MD FRACGP DTM&H CLJ Professor of Community Medicine
- Anthony James Radford FRCP MRCP FRACP MFCM SM DTM&H Professor of Primary Health care Flinders University
- James Geoffrey Ryan BSc FRACGP Professor of community practice University of Queensland
- Ian William Webster MD FRACP Professor of Community Medicine University of New South Wales
- Ross Wharton Webster FRACGP MRACP Professor of Community Health University of Melbourne
Notably, many did not hold general practice qualifications either from Australia or international.
General Practice Textbooks
The definitive point in Australian General Practice came with the textbook General Practice.
John Murtagh was a science teacher in rural Victoria who return to study Medicine at the first intake of Monash University. John Murtagh has along academic association through Monash University becoming the first Professor of General Practice (Neil Carson was Professor of Community Medicine). He remains with teaching positions at Monash University as Professor in General Practice, University of Notre Dame as Adjunct Clinical Professor and Melbourne University as Professorial Fellow.
He was associate medical editor of the Australian Family Physician (the RACGP peer reviewed journal) in 1980, editor in 1986 and held that position until 1995. He began the popular CHECK (Continuous Home Evaluation of Clinical Knowledge), he also held the position of Executive Director of Training at the RACGP at the turn of the 21st century. The RACGP library is named after John Murtagh., offering a wide range of services to Members, registrars and all health professionals working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Services.
'To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul' - Professor Michael Kidd, RACGP President 2002-2006 quoting Cicero 1st December 2005
His companion publication Practice Tips was named as the British Medical Association's Best Primary Care Book Award in 2005. He received a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medicine, in particular, medical education, research and publishing.
Past Presidents of the RACGP
| Past Presidents of the RACGP | Date |
|---|---|
| WA Connelly | 20 March 1959 – 28 October 1961 |
| HS Patterson | 28 October 1961 – 24 October 1963 |
| CW Anderson | 24 October 1963 – 27 October 1966 |
| CC Jungfer | 27 October 1966 – 10 October 1968 |
| MO Kent Hughes | 10 October 1968 – 15 October 1970 |
| HN Merrington | 15 October 1970 – 5 October 1972 |
| JG Radford | 5 October 1972 – 3 October 1974 |
| DA Game | 3 October 1974 – 25 August 1976 |
| JRH Watson | 25 August 1976 – 25 October 1978 |
| WD Jackson | 25 October 1978 – 12 August 1980 |
| KWK Shaw | 12 August 1980 – 18 October 1982 |
| RT Finch | 18 October 1982 – 5 September 1984 |
| DP Finegan | 5 September 1984 – 20 October 1986 |
| AE Fisher | 20 October 1986 – 8 September 1988 |
| GR Gates | 8 September 1988 – 28 September 1990 |
| AR Buhagiar | 28 September 1990 – 24 September 1992 |
| P Stone | 24 September 1992 – 15 September 1994 |
| CE Owen | 15 September 1994 – 16 October 1996 |
| P Joseph | 16 October 1996 – 15 October 1998 |
| M Kilmartin | 15 October 1998 – 11 October 2000 |
| P Hemming | 11 October 2000 – 8 October 2002 |
| M Kidd | 8 October 2002 – 30 September 2004 |
| M Kidd | 30 September 2004 – 5 October 2006 |
Past chairs of RACGP Council
| Past Chair of Council | Date |
|---|---|
| WA Connelly | 7 March 1958 – 30 September 1959 |
| Sir Leonard Mallen | 30 September 1959 – 20 October 1962 |
| D Zacharin | 20 October 1962 – 23 October 1965 |
| HM Saxby | 23 October 1965 – 29 October 1966 |
| HRN Oaten | 29 October 1966 – 9 October 1969 |
| DA Game | 9 October 1969 – 25 November 1972 |
| MS Cooling | 25 November 1972 – 16 October 1975 |
| WD Jackson | 16 October 1975 – 25 October 1978 |
| GR Gates | 25 October 1978 – 17 October 1981 |
| GM Dick | 17 October 1981 – 5 September 1984 |
| GC Miller | 5 September 1984 – 26 July 1986 |
| JC Bampton | 26 July 1986 – 2 September 1987 |
| KP Mahoney | 2 September 1987 – 29 September 1990 |
| RJ Mecoy | 29 September 1990 – 25 September 1992 |
| GD Martin | 25 September 1992 – 6 October 1993 |
| RC Gutch | 6 October 1993 – 15 September 1994 |
| JW Turnbull | 15 September 1994 – 16 October 1996 |
| JH Summons | 16 October 1996 – 26 October 1999 |
| P Clyne | 30 October 1999 – 27 October 2001 |
| P Hemming | 27 October 2001 – 8 October 2002 |
| C Jackson | 8 October 2002 – 8 October 2003 |
| L Rowe | 8 October 2003 – 30 September 2004 |
| P Mudge | 30 September 2004 – 5 October 2006 |
Life Fellows of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
| Life Fellow of the RACGP | Date of award |
|---|---|
| William Arnold Connelly | 20 February 1981 |
| H Stuart Patterson | 18 September 1985 |
| Colin Warden Anderson | 2 September 1987 |
| Herbert Ewan Hamilton Ferguson | 2 September 1987 |
| Harvard Northcroft Merrington | 8 September 1988 |
| John Goulburn Radford | 8 September 1988 |
| Rollo Greenless | 28 September 1989 |
| Bernard Selwyn Alderson | 24 September 1992 |
| William Desmond Jackson | 15 September 1994 |
| John Charles Bampton | 16 October 1996 |
| David Sunter Muecke | 16 October 1996 |
| William Francis Glastonbury | 30 September 1997 |
| David Game | 15 October 1998 |
| Edgar John Hamilton North | 26 October 1999 |
| Richard Geeves | 8 October 2003 |
| Wesley Fabb | 8 October 2003 |
| Peter Doyle | 8 October 2003 |
| Charles Bridges-Webb | 30 September 2004 |
| Neil Carson | 30 September 2004 |
| Max Kamien | 30 September 2004 |
| Jack Marshal | 30 September 2004 |
| James Colquhoun | 30 September 2004 |
| Clive Oswald Auricht | 29 September 2005 |
| Mary Deidre Mahoney | 29 September 2005 |
| John Alfred Stevens | 29 September 2005 |
| Alan (Eric) Fisher | 5 October 2006 |
| Richard (Dick) Gutch | 5 October 2006 |
| Bruce Roberts | 5 October 2006 |
| Elizabeth Jane | 5 October 2006 |
Honorary Fellows of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
| Honorary Fellow of the RACGP | Date of award |
|---|---|
| Lord Hunt of Fawley | 20 March 1959 |
| Ian Grant | 20 March 1959 |
| William Pickles | 20 March 1959 |
| The Honourable Donald A Cameron | 19 October 1962 |
| Sir Theodore Fox | 19 October 1962 |
| Robert John Francis Homfrey Pinsent | 24 October 1963 |
| Henry Edward Martyn Williams | 24 October 1963 |
| William Victor Marcus Coppleson | 24 October 1963 |
| The Right Honourable Sir Robert Gordon Menzies | 9 October 1964 |
| Sir Lorimer Fenton Dods | 22 October 1965 |
| Carroll L Witten | 29 May 1966 |
| James T McCollough | 29 May 1966 |
| Sir Norman Nock | 11 October 1967 |
| Sir Thoman Moore Greenway | 1 July 1968 |
| Bruce Toomba Mayes | 10 October 1968 |
| Douglas Gordon | 10 October 1968 |
| George Ian Watson | 2 September 1972 |
| James Lester Grobe | 2 September 1972 |
| Claude Howard Murphy | 2 September 1972 |
| Ronald Diarmid MacDiarmid | 2 September 1972 |
| Donald Ingram Rice | 2 September 1972 |
| Prakash Chand Bhatla | 2 September 1972 |
| Bratham Ramaswarmy Sreenivasan | 26 November 1972 |
| His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh | 24 January 1973 |
| Wong Heck Sing | 25 August 1975 |
| Sir Keith Stephen Jones | 15 October 1975 |
| Selwyn Carson | 25 October 1978 |
| James Rupert Magarey | 25 October 1978 |
| David Clements Jackson | 18 October 1982 |
| John George H Refshauge | 11 October 1984 |
| Yvonne Sinclair | 19 April 1986 |
| Reginald Lewis Perkin | 2 September 1987 |
| Bertram Herries Young | 2 September 1987 |
| Victor William Michael Drury | 8 September 1988 |
| Barry Betham Grimmond | 8 September 1988 |
| Thomas Smith Reeva | 8 September 1988 |
| Edward Bassett | 28 September 1989 |
| Robert Edward McKeown | 28 September 1989 |
| Ronnie Woh Mun Yeun | 28 September 1989 |
| Raymond George Ross Moon | 28 September 1990 |
| Peter Erne Baume | 26 September 1991 |
| Manacadu Kumar Rajakumer | 24 September 1992 |
| Peter George Flemming | 6 October 1993 |
| Frank Fry | 15 September 1994 |
| John Derek Richardson | 15 September 1994 |
| Peter CY Lee | 15 September 1994 |
| Neil Blewett | 15 September 1994 |
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28 September 1995 |
| Patrick Augustus Simon Edmonds | 16 October 1996 |
| Sir Gustav Joseph Victor Nossal | 15 October 1998 |
| Goh Lee Gan | 8 October 2003 |
| Theres (Tessa) Turnbull | 8 October 2003 |
| W Bruce Connelly | 8 October 2003 |
| Michael Boland | 30 September 2004 |
| Stephen Foo | 30 September 2004 |
| Nat Yuen | 30 September 2004 |
| Fiona Stanley | 30 September 2004 |
| Ngaire Joy Brown | 29 September 2005 |
| Donald Kwok Tung Li | 29 September 2005 |
| Ruby Binti Adbul Majeed | 29 September 2005 |
| Helen Wilhelmina Rodenberg | 29 September 2005 |
| Bruce Louis Walsh sparks | 29 September 2005 |
| Geoffrey Henry James Vause | 29 September 2005 |
| Ian Frazer | 5 October 2006 |
| William Glasson | 5 October 2006 |
| Alfred W T Loh | 5 October 2006 |
| Roger Neighbour | 5 October 2006 |
| Daniel Mahendran Thuraiappah | 5 October 2006 |
Honorary Members of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
| Honorary Member of the RACGP | Date of award |
|---|---|
| Reginald Gilbert Hayward | 24 October 1963 |
| James Robert Clough | 11 October 1967 |
| Robert Spence | 10 October 1968 |
| Maxwell Stanley Jarvis | 9 October 1969 |
| Adrian William Helm | 21 October 1971 |
| Dorothy Francis Bird | 2 September 1972 |
| Jon Allen Baker | 25 October 1978 |
| Helena Christine Britt | 28 September 1995 |
| Glenda May Williams | 28 September 1995 |
| Ilse Quantrell | 20 September 1997 |
| Ann Dooley | 15 October 1998 |
| Ronald Rees | 26 April 1999 |
| Lillace Mary Burrow | 12 August 2000 |
| Joan Bruton | 30 September 2001 |
| Patricia Ritchie | 30 September 2001 |
| Judith Tuner | 30 September 2001 |
| Rod Wellard | 8 October 2003 |
| Margaret Gore | 8 October 2003 |
| Prue Power | 8 October 2003 |
| Pam Garrard | 30 September 2004 |
| Moni Lobascher | 30 September 2004 |
| Jane Ryan | 30 September 2004 |
| Sue Whicker | 30 September 2004 |
| Annette Young | 30 September 2004 |
| Robyn Ellen Cronnolly | 29 September 2005 |
| Carol Mary Elliott | 29 September 2005 |
| Marian Diesner | 29 September 2005 |
| Fidelis Leong | 29 September 2005 |
| Glenda Joy Malkin | 29 September 2005 |
| Neil Greenway | 5 October 2006 |
| Robin Toohey | 5 October 2006 |
| Sharon Butler | 5 October 2006 |
| Lucy Di Natale | 5 October 2006 |
| Amy Jasper | 5 October 2006 |
| Julie Lam | 5 October 2006 |
| Diane Schaefer | 5 October 2006 |
| Mary Martin | 5 October 2006 |
Occasional orators
- First Annual General Meeting 1958-1959
Ian Dingwall Grant
- Second Annual General Meeting 1959
Joseph Silver Collings
- Third Annual General Meeting 1960
Kenneth Macd Foster
- Fourth Annual General Meeting 1961
Gilbert S McDonald
- Fifth Annual General Meeting 1962
Sir Theodore Fox
- Sixth Annual General Meeting 1963
William Victor Johnston
- Seventh Annual General Meeting 1964
Sir Clive Hamilton Fitts
- Eighth Annual General Meeting 1965
Trevor Corey Beard
- Ninth Annual General Meeting 1966
Carroll Lewis Witten
- Tenth Annual General Meeting 1967
Bruce Toomba Mayes
- Eleventh Annual General Meeting 1968
Richard Roderick Andrew
- Twelfth Annual General Meeting 1969
Geoffrey Malcolm Badger
- Sixteenth Annual General Meeting 1973
HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh
William Arnold Connelly orators
- Thirteenth Annual General Meeting 1970
Sir Kenneth Beeson Noad
- Fourteenth Annual General Meeting 1971
Professor Eric Galton Saint
- Fifteenth Annual General Meeting 1972
Prakash Chand Bhatla
- Seventeenth Annual General Meeting 1974
Sir Mark Oliphant
- Eighteenth Annual General Meeting 1975
Geoffrey C Bolton
- Nineteenth Annual General Meeting 1976
David C Jackson
- Twentieth Annual General Meeting 1977
Sir Stanley Burbury
- Twenty-First Annual General Meeting 1978
Sir Edward Hughes
- Twenty-Second Annual General Meeting 1979
Senator Peter Baume
- Twenty-Third Annual General Meeting 1980
Justice Kemeri Murray
- Twenty-Fourth Annual General Meeting 1981
Professor David Maddison
- Twenty-Fifth Annual General Meeting 1982
Stuart Patterson
- Twenty-Sixth Annual General Meeting 1983
Sir Ninian Stephen
- Twenty-Seventh Annual General Meeting 1984
The Most Reverend Dr Peter Carnley
- Twenty-Eighth Annual General Meeting 1985
Associate Professor Byan Gandevia
- Twenty-Ninth Annual General Meeting 1986
Ms Katherine West
- Thirtieth Annual General Meeting 1987
Professor Stephen Leeder
- Thirty-First Annual General Meeting 1988
Professor Ralph Doherty
- Thirty-Second Annual General Meeting 1989
not held
- Thirty-Third Annual General Meeting 1990
Dr Keith Bolden
- Thirty-Fourth Annual General Meeting 1991
Professor Max Charlesworth
- Thirty-Fifth Annual General Meeting 1992
The Most Reverend Dr Keith Rayner
- Thirty-Sixth Annual General Meeting 1993
Dr William Faulding Scammell CBE
- Thirty-Seventh Annual General Meeting 1994
Professor Richard Smallwood
- Thirty-Eighth Annual General Meeting 1995
Associate Professor David Bennett
- Thirty-Ninth Annual General Meeting 1996
Dr Reg L Perkin
- Fortieth Annual General Meeting 1997
Dr John Stevens
- Forty-First Annual General Meeting 1998
Emeritus Professor Neil Carson
- Forty-Second Annual General Meeting 1999
Dr David A Game
- Forty-Third Annual General Meeting 2000
Professor Dame Lesley Southgate DBE
- Forty-Fourth Annual General Meeting 2001
Professor W Bruce Connolly
- Forty-Fifth Annual General Meeting 2002
Professor Judith Belle Brown
- Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting 2003
Professor Wesley Fabb AM
- Forty-Seventh Annual General Meeting 2004
Professor Max Kamien AM
- Forty-Eighth Annual General Meeting 2005
Dr Ngaire Brown
- Forty-Ninth Annual General Meeting 2006
Professor Ian Frazer
Standardisation
RACGP standard has been revised twice respectively since 2000 , . The guidance for the best of practice on nursingNursing
Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death....
in General Practice is provided by Royal College of Nursing, Australia
See also
- Australian Medical AssociationAustralian Medical AssociationThe Australian Medical Association is a professional association for Australian doctors and medical students.The AMA uses a representative structure involving state branches and committees to work with members to promote and protect the interests of doctors.The mechanisms that allow this include:*...
- Infection controlInfection controlInfection control is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection, a practical sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential, though often under-recognized and under-supported, part of the infrastructure of health care...
- Occupational safety and healthOccupational safety and healthOccupational safety and health is a cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. The goal of all occupational safety and health programs is to foster a safe work environment...