As a child, Janine Close already had a firm desire to become a doctor.
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Please join the College in congratulating Distinguished Fellows Dr Clare Healy and Dr Graeme Fenton, who received New Year’s Honours in 2022
GPEP year 1 registrar Dr Liam Watson is thrilled to have landed in Northland after several years working in a diverse range of New Zealand locations, from Invercargill to Whangarei.
Congratulations to Professor Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Dr Jo Scott-Jones who have been awarded Fellowship of the World Organization of Family Doctors, or WONCA as the organisation is more commonly known as..
Dr Vanisi Prescott, an Auckland GP in her third year of the General Practice Education Programme, says her first foray into TikTok was for a dance video with her 12-year-old daughter.
Rural practice? Jeremy Webber was born to it. Raised in the rural reaches of the Manawatū and Whangārei, he was bonded from an early age to the whenua.
Ralston D’Souza, a rural registrar at Westend Medical Centre in Rotorua, is one of several junior doctors whose personal experience of residency motivated him to take action to bring his fellow residents closer together.
If you needed to find an advocate for women’s health, there is no need to look further than Distingushed Fellow Dr Bev Lawton.
A Wellington GP is facing the climate change crisis head-on by embracing the principles of ‘think globally, act locally’ at her Newtown clinic.
Dr Brabazon graduated Otago Medical School in 1951, a time affectionately known as ‘The Vintage Year’ because it was the first time an entire class passed the final exams.
Dr Himali McInnes, a GP with over a decade’s experience working in South Auckland, has recently published her first book The Unexpected Patient - true Kiwi stories of life, death and unforgettable clinical cases. Deeply moved by an unforgettable pati
2021 is a year for the history books. Another nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, the biggest vaccine rollout New Zealand has ever seen, and amongst all of that, New Zealand’s most successful Olympic games on record. Fellow of the College, Dr Sam Mayhew wa
An important part of the College’s work is to advocate on behalf of our 5,500 members – bringing to light the issues general practitioners and rural hospital doctors are facing in the workforce, and influencing change.
The Northland Faculty value the importance of Collegiality.
Rural hospitals, and the teams who run them, are as crucial to local communities as the school, yet their contributions go largely unsung.
The College office is closed for the Christmas break from 12noon on Friday, 24 December 2021 and will reopen on Wednesday, 5 January 2022 at 8am.
The College is joining other health organisations and colleges to show the public of Aotearoa New Zealand we support vaccination against COVID-19.
College Fellow, Dr Pauline Horrill is a convenor and teacher of postgraduate primary health care papers at the University.
Alliance health Plus PHO held their annual awards recently, celebrating outstanding achievement in primary care.
The Gender Justice Collective (GJC) is an independent, intersectional, non-profit network of around 20 individuals and organisations, whose vision is for Aotearoa to lead the world in gender equity.
Mrs B died in 2018 of complications from her carcinoma of the bowel which was first identified during a digital examination in the same year
Congratulations to Dr Rachel Mackie (Ngātiwai), who is the College’s new Board Apprentice
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