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Australia 101

The things Australian graduates absorb without noticing, and that international graduates lose marks on: how the health system works, the law, prescribing, screening and culture. Each one is a five-minute read.

Healthcare system

  • Medicare and bulk billing
  • The GP as gatekeeper, and referrals
  • Notifiable diseases
  • Telehealth
  • Emergency numbers and advice lines

Prescribing

  • The PBS and authority scripts
  • eTG and AMH: the prescribing references
  • Australian drug names vs Indian ones
  • Medicine scheduling (the Poisons Standard)
  • S8 drugs and real-time prescription monitoring

Law & ethics

  • Consent and capacity
  • Gillick competence and young people
  • Mandatory reporting of child abuse
  • Mandatory notification of impaired practitioners
  • Open disclosure
  • Confidentiality and privacy
  • Driving fitness (Austroads)

Screening

  • National Bowel Cancer Screening Program
  • BreastScreen Australia
  • National Cervical Screening Program
  • National Lung Cancer Screening Program

Immunisation

  • National Immunisation Program basics
  • Vaccines in pregnancy and adulthood

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander health

  • The 715 health assessment
  • Cultural safety
  • Closing the Gap and community controlled health

Rural & remote

  • Rural medicine and the RFDS

Culture & communication

  • How to talk to Australian patients
  • Working with interpreters (TIS National)
  • Sun safety and skin checks

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In the app, every topic points out the Australian answer, and the questions test it the way the AMC does.

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