Newsletters
Newsletters
The Council distributes a quarterly e-newsletter to NSW medical practitioners to promote professional standards and information about the ethical and regulatory responsibilites of doctors to their patients.
July 2023
In this issue:
- Separating fact from fear in mandatory notifications
- How a healthy workplace can improve patient care
- Interpersonal violence: reporting and patient care
- Spotlight on: Impaired registrants panels
- Cultural safety strategy launch
March 2023
In this issue:
- Meet our President
- Mental health: know when to refer
- Social networking: personal boundaries
- Spotlight on: Professional standards committees
December 2022
In this issue:
- Opioid clinical care standards
- Transgender medicine update
- Spotlight on Practice based assessments
- Medical student essay prize winners 2022
June 2022
In this issue:
- New podcast on informed consent
- 10 things you must know about mandatory reporting (and they're not necessarily what you think)
- Social media: the ins and outs of maintaining a social media presence
- Spotlight on Counselling Interviews
March 2022
In this issue:
- SafeScript NSW: Real time medication tracking coming your way
- Podcast - Everyone and no one: Who is looking after the patient?
- Spotlight on urgent action
- Shared decision making and the five question model
- When should I include an interpreter in a consult?
December 2021
In this issue:
- Burnout: Are you at risk and what to do about it?
- Communication is key to shared care success
- Who me? Retire? How to plan, transition and adapt
- Does being grumpy with patients carry serious medico-legal risk?
- Spotlight on Performance Review Panels
November 2021
In this issue:
- COVID-19 vaccination exemptions: what are the criteria?
- Meet Dr Liz Tompsett, Council member and surgeon
- Telehealth – a psychiatrist’s perspective
- Think you know the Doctor's Code of Conduct?
- Spotlight on: health assessors
June 2021
In this issue:
- Recalls and reminders: Know your obligations
- Podcast: Who is who in health regulation
- Telehealth: The patient's perspective
- Medical Council of NSW support the Medical Benevolent Association of NSW
- Spotlight on: Self-reflections forms
March 2021
In this issue:
- President's message
- Do you know the three W's when it comes to compound medicine?
- Podcast: Setting the record straight on medical records
- Informed consent: make it meaningful
- Does your diagnosis get lost in translation?
- Annual report 2019/20
- Spotlight on: Council Based Assessments
December 2020
In this issue:
- President's message
- Why are systems struggles impacting doctors and aged care patients?
- New podcast: two-part series on prescribing
- Leaving medicine? What you need to know about patient records before you do
- Spotlight on 'no further action' outcomes
July 2020
In this issue:
- President's message
- Meet Dr John Sammut - Incoming Medical Council President
- Circumstances change, good practice remains the same (Dr Charlotte Hespe, RACGP)
- How does Council address impairment in practitioners
April 2020
In this issue:
- President's message
- Are you guilty of making these vaccine errors?
- If the Medical Council calls, will I end up suspended?
- Complaints, communications, clinical care and more: take-away messages from the annual report
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