4 - Not your typical location for a GP clinic - Pat Ryder and Dr Laura Zagorski; Mount Beauty Medical Centre & Falls Creek Medical Centre

Today’s podcast is bought to you from Mount Beauty Medical Centre/Falls Creek Medical Centre with Practice Manager Pat Ryder and Rural GP Laura Zagorski.

Pat obtained her Certificate of Health Economics, Monash University in 1998 followed by her Diploma in Practice Management, University of New England in 2002. Pat gained her Fellowship of the Australian Association of Practice Managers in 2014.

Pat commenced work at the Mount Beauty Medical Centre in 1986

Pat has expertly guided the accreditation of both practices with General Practice Accreditation. She has also completed Management, University of New England in 2002. Pat gained her Fellowship of the Australian Association of Practice Managers in 2014.

Pat commenced work at the Mount Beauty Medical Centre in 1986

Pat has expertly guided the accreditation of both practices with General Practice Accreditation. She has also completed accreditation of both practices with the HDAA as Radiology Service Providers.

Laura is a GP with 11 years experience working in Falls Creek and Mount Beauty. She completed MBBS at UWA in Perth, graduating in 2007. She received her fellowship of the RACGP in 2013 and has completed various other postgraduate studies.

She enjoys all aspects of rural GP particularly women’s health, mental health, lifestyle medicine and attending to sports injuries. She spends a large portion of each winter working at Falls Creek Medical Centre where she combines her interest in managing snowsports trauma with her love of downhill skiing.

Episode Details:

●     An overview of the Falls Creek Medical Centre, location & services & relationship to MBMC

●     A typical day in snow season look like

●     Specialist equipment do you us and  training do GPs and staff require

●     Similarities & differences to traditional GP services (relationship to hospital services)

●     Billing structure (& notion of 'unique' service development)

●     Attracting staff to work in quite remote locations.

●     The best/most challenging aspect of this work?

Key Messages:

Diversity in practice keeps doctors ‘interested’

General practice training can take you anywhere you want it to.