My name's Dr Lynne Reid.
I'm the Lead Medical Educator for the Cairns Coast region.
I work in GP and I work in a place called D Health which looks after very undeserved
part of the community here in the outskirts of Cairns.
So originally I trained in the UK, predominantly initially in Scotland, and then also in the
South East, South West of England.
So I started with a very broad training in general medicine.
I did intensive care, anaesthetics training and additional internal medical training as well.
I think it's the registrars who really want to exceed and stretch themselves.
Getting this additional training in internal medicine will make you highly skilled and
it will develop diagnostic skills but also even been able to further interpret and take
care of patients and their illnesses.
I think this will be for the registrar who just wants to push themselves that bit further.
Doing advanced rural skills training, so an ARST through the FARGP pathway you could do
that in internal medicine, giving it an extra twelve months of that additional training.
ACRRM would be doing an AST in advanced skills training and again give that extra twelve
months in a sort of secondary care setting where you're doing a bit more general medical
clinics, in-patient care, just that sort of advanced care of those chronic conditions.
So certainly for the RACGP it would involve you doing a project and I think that's a really
reasonable thing to do and during the year obviously keeping up to date with your medical
educator, your mentor, being guided through that year.
When it comes to ACRRM you do have additional modules to do but also importantly you have
the additional stamps exam, the adult and internal medicine stamps exam.
Most employers will look at that as someone who's really added value to their training,
who's built already a good foundation and framework but added to it with that extra
layer of skills and expertise.
So most employers would look at advanced skills training in this area as a real bonus.
The registrars can expect to be really immersed in adult medicine.
The idea would be that you get lots of access to outpatient clinics so you know how to really
manage the complex cases.
So these are patients who have been deemed to need escalated care.
I just loved it adult internal medicine, just to get in the scope and get the confidence
to know you can manage almost any situation and even really complex patients with lots
of comorbidities don't phase you once you've done that additional training.
It gives you sort of I think edge when it comes to progressing your career but also
standing on your own two feet when you're fully qualified.
Having done this additional training for me it gave me confidence, for me it allowed me
to sort of take on most if not all of the presentations that would come to me either
in general practice or in other healthcare facilities.
To convince a registrar to sign up for advanced skills training in adult internal medicine,
the big sale is this is going to make you the best possible doctor you can be.
You'll be the safest pair of hands that you could ever want to be whether you're in general
practice, whether you're in a regional or rural or remote setting, doing this additional
training will make you the best that you could possibly be.
It'll give you a breadth of knowledge you'll not get anywhere else.
This is definitely the one to do if you want to be the best at what you're going to do.