 Being a GP supervisor involves employing a registrar in your practice, either full or part time for a six month term. At a minimum, they will be in their third year post graduation, and will have done a range of hospital jobs. Some may have many years more experience that this, including possibly having worked overseas in a specialist field. The full time registrar works a 38 hour week, which includes teaching time, both in the practice and at a release day with VMA, once a fortnight for basic and once a month for advanced. VMA provides a teaching allowance and a salary subsidy.
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 Des' long standing interest in teaching led him to his current role supervising registrars undertaking their AGPT with VMA. Des has been working with registrars since 1993 and during his 16 year involvement he has supervised around 30 advanced registrars and about 15 subsequent registrars.
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 Medical educators play an important and valued role in the VMA For an understanding of what the role involves, the following role description provides a good overview.
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From the time that I started working in General
Practice, I had always intended to get into medical education, "to give
something back" as they say, and so it happened that 1999 was a year of
significant change for me. That year I was finishing off a Masters in Family
Medicine and I left solo General Practice, for group practice, so that I could
have time and flexibility to pursue my new interest. I began with mentoring of
GP registrars who were doing special skills posts. Later I moved to doing
ECTVs. At that time I had no idea what an ECTV was, let alone how to conduct
one. I studied carefully the RACGP ECT Manual on giving feedback and, with some
mentoring from Lindsay Quennell, off I went. I haven't looked back since!
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