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NZRCGP Annual Conference
NZRCGP Annual Conference
The Royal New Zealand College of
General Practitioners holds its annual conference at the
Millennium Hotel in Queenstown next week.
Keynote
speaker for the .conference this year is American Professor
Rich Roberts, President elect of the World Organisation of
National Academies and Colleges of medicine
(Wonca).
The official programme is available here:
http://www.conference.co.nz/index.cfm/rnzcgp2008/Programme
The
first function on Tuesday evening is the Annual Oration
ceremony, where new Fellows are welcomed into the College,
and Distinguished Fellows honoured. Fellows of the College,
and the official party, will be in full academic
dress.
There are two speakers, the first the Peter
Anyon Memorial Address from Dunedin GP Tom Swire. Peter
Anyon was a Hutt Valley GP paediatrician who helped set up
one of the earlier GP training programmes in the
country.
Dr Swire passed the College's Primex exam last
year to achieve Membership.
The conference this
year is hosted by the College's Otago Southland Faculty,
with programme convenor Queenstown GP Dr Hans
Raetz.
The local Faculty have invited Dunedin GP Dr
Sue Walthert to give the 2008 Oration. It will be an
intensely personal address, The Quest, through her encounter
with Her-2 breast cancer and Herceptin.
Dr Roberts
will speak at 9.30am Thursday morning. His address will be
available shortly afterwards.
Should you wish to
interview him, please contact me for a time.
CME.
part of the life of every GP, featrues on both Thursday and
Friday afternoons, and again on Saturday morning. There will
be interesting sessions, including several discussing the
role of the practice nurse in today's GP
teams.
Possibly the highlight for rural GPs and
general practice teams will be a special scenario that
starts with a bus accident on the road to the Remarkables.
The twists and turns of the Hans Raetz scenario will test
every particpant. It would provide good
images.
Full details are on the conference
website.
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