FEDERATION CLINIC NEWS FEBRUARY 2010

Farewell
At the start of February every year we sadly say goodbye to our GP registrars who have been working with us over the previous year. Unfortunately, it is part of the cycle in a teaching practice that members of the medical team in our clinic have to periodically move on to other areas for their training and we lose people who have played an important role in the delivery of our service to our patients.

Dr Jia Chua has been with us for three months as part of the Prevocational GP placement program, on rotation from Western Hospital in Melbourne. As a hospital doctor working with us in the community, she has gained valuable insight into the complexities of General Practice. Hopefully this time will help her in her future career, whether it is as a GP or specialist.

Dr Ratan Mandal completed his training time with the Bogong Regional Training Network at Federation Clinic in 2009 and successfully completed the examination for Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Congratulations Ratan! He will continue to gain experience working in General Practice in the local area.

Dr Andrew Pennington spent the first year of his GP training with Bogong at our clinic. This has been a very successful year and Andrew has established a strong following of patients who will be sad to say goodbye. This year, Andrew will be undertaking his Obstetric training at Wodonga hospital so that he will be able to join the ranks of the GP Obstetricians who are so important in the delivery of maternity services in rural and regional Australia.

We wish our registrars well in their future careers and thank our patients for helping to make their training time here so successful.

Welcome
The good news is that we are able to welcome two new doctors to the clinic.

Dr Nishani Kulatunga is a Bogong GP training registrar, like Andrew, in her first year of the program. Nishani has been working in the Emergency Department at Wodonga Hospital for the last two years so will be bringing with her all her experience in emergency and general medicine. She has a special interest Women's and Children's Health which will be a great help to us in providing care in our family medical practice.

Dr Fiona Shepard comes to us for three months from Western Hospital as a prevocational registrar. Hopefully her time here will inspire her to take up a career in country general practice! We know that she will be made to feel very welcome in Wodonga.

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