Professional Development
Northern Suburbs Medical Service (NSMS) has had a long history of encouraging
and supporting the personal and professional development of our team members.
Professional development is particularly important to us in our practice. Providing general medical
services in the community is a role that requires qualification, skills
and experience - and the role is constantly changing and in many ways
becoming increasingly more challenging.
A commitment to undertaking further practice-specific training,
both on-the-job and off-site, together with the ability to learn from
one's mistakes, is considered vital in this practice.
Some examples of where the practice has specifically supported staff include
- Over a three-year period, we supported one of our (then) enrolled nurses to upgrade her nursing skills through the three-year university course to Registered Nurse status.
- The current practice manager completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) part-time while continuing to work at the practice.
- Many trainee doctors in general practice came to us as GP Registrars, and were given significant support to assist them in passing their final examinations with the RACGP. Two of these doctors have continued to work with us to fulfill their career aspirations in general practice.
- An enrolled nurse, whose nursing registration had lapsed, joined us and then received practice assistance to complete a bridging course to restore registration status.
We are also a Training Practice with the University of Tasmania School of Medicine. We regularly take two final year medical
students on a thirteen week rotation, and provide the best possible community medicine learning environment -
past students have been very enthusiastic about us. Medical students needing to do their later-year attachment should contact us to get in first, for a great term in general practice - don't wait to find out that you go just anywhere!
We also have an association with General Practice Training Tasmania , an independent
general practice training organisation based in Hobart. GPTT trains medical
graduates in the specialized skills needed to become a competent
general practitioner, ultimately preparing trainee GPs to successfully
sit the final RACGP examinations. We have had GP Registrar's completing their training in the practice over the past 14 years.
We also generally facilitate the ongoing professional development of our
Nurses, to ensure that they maintain and improve on their core
competencies, by arranging both in-house and external training sessions.
Both in-house and external training are also provided on an 'as-needs' basis
for our Reception staff. We recently assisted one of our receptionists to
retrain as a nurse after a ten-year absence from the nursing profession.
And we are currently supporting another of our Reception staff members
who is undertaking her Bachelor of Nursing degree.
Want to be part of this progressive climate of professional development, in a happy, family-friendly environment?
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