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For nearly 20 years, general and acute care physician Dr Simon Quilty has witnessed up-close the poverty that inflicts indigenous communitie...
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RACS Post Op Podcast is a medical podcast by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. It features extended interviews on articles in the current issue of Surgical News magazine, plus prac...

For nearly 20 years, general and acute care physician Dr Simon Quilty has witnessed up-close the poverty that inflicts indigenous communitie...

When Dr Emilia Dauway decided to relocate to regional Queensland from Texas, she didn’t intend for it to be permanent. The 40-bed Queensland...

The Surgical Education & Training (SET) One-Year scholarship that Dr Jamie-Lee Rahiri received is an opportunity she says to help continue h...

This month, we welcome the College’s new president, Associate Professor Kerin Fielding. Based in the New South Wales regional centre of Wagg...

Specialist International Medical Graduates (SIMGs) with formal postgraduate specialist qualifications in surgery who wish to work in Austral...

The 2023 RACS Annual Scientific Congress will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre on 1-5 May. There’s been a lot of work behind the sc...

RACS’s Trauma Committee has been pivotal in helping prevent acute trauma in the community. That includes encouraging surgeons to pursue a tr...

Dr Mat Brick’s journey into the world of surgery wasn’t the most conventional. He studied at medical school, but shifted direction to focus...

WorldPride is the biggest event on the world’s LGBTQIA+ calendar. This year, it’s being hosted by Sydney – the first time WorldPride is held...

Economically, it’s a tough time right now. Interest rates are rising, there are labour shortages, residential rents are up, house prices are...

A new novel shines the light on excessive workloads faced by junior doctors and specialist trainees. The Registrar is written by debut autho...

An Australian-first study investigating fertility and pregnancy complications among Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand doctors discovered g...

In 2019, Norway’s capital of Oslo recorded just one death from a traffic accident. From a peak of 570 annual roads deaths in the 1970s natio...

Dr Samantha Pillay graduated from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1992 to become the first female urological surgeon in South A...

Ben Bravery was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in his late 20s. That led to many months of treatment and much of his time in hospital ward...

There comes a time in a surgeon’s career when they’ll start to think about obtaining their own medical practice. It’s a big decision, with a...

Technology in surgery continues to evolve in leaps and bounds, particularly the advances of robotics. A little under 20 years ago, Professor...

The incidents of domestic violence resulting in trauma (injury) would probably shock a lot of people. In Australia, a report from the Austra...

Since 1996, the Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) has worked closely with governments and communities to meet the health needs of people ac...

First published in 1931, the ANZ Journal of Surgery is a prestigious publication serving the surgical community in Aotearoa New Zealand and...

In 2020, Dr Muecke was awarded Australian of the Year in recognition for his many decades of pioneering blindness prevention, particularly i...

As a new Fellow, Dr Zainab Naseem was hoping to achieve a more comfortable work-life balance when she came across an advertisement for the N...

One of the requirements for Surgical Trainees is the RACS Surgical Education and Training interview. If you’re a junior doctor who has yet t...

Before the Australian federal election, the Coalition had legislated a number of changes to superannuation, which came into effect in July t...

Have you ever thought what it’s like to be married to another surgeon? Well, for married surgical couple Dr Sandra Krishnan and Dr Adrian Fe...

There comes a time when a medical student or junior doctor decides to proceed on the path of a surgical career. The first step is the proces...

Despite decades of media campaigns, more work still needs to be done to raise the awareness and treatment of skin cancer in Aotearoa New Zea...

An Australian-first study investigating fertility and pregnancy complications among Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand doctors discovered g...

Since 2010, the College has awarded the John Corboy Medal in recognition of exceptional service of surgical Trainees. The medal is named aft...

In 2019, Norway's capital of Oslo recorded just one death from a traffic accident. From a peak of 570 annual roads deaths in the 1970s natio...

Health care delivery has shifted from one of blame-seeking to a more enlightened and sophisticated understanding of a modern complex system....

Although the Australian federal election had yet to be announced, it was very much on the minds of everybody when the Australian federal bud...

Dr Samantha Pillay graduated from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1992 to become the first female urological surgeon in South A...

RACS is considering a proposal to change the name of the College following a request from our Fellowship. RACS Council appointed a working p...

Surgeons have benefited greatly in recent years with a range of digital tools allowing them to innovate, learn and communicate with patients...

Flexible training increases diversity in the surgical workforce by enabling Trainees to broaden their experience and pursue wider interests...

Forty-one years after first arriving in the Northern Territory, general surgeon Assoc. Prof. Phillip Carson has retired from clinical practi...

The Surgical Education and Training (SET) Program is designed to ensure surgical trainees become competent surgeons to the communities they...

It's been almost six years since the College commenced work on the Building Respect Improving Patient Safety initiative. A 2015 investigatio...

The Wellbeing Charter for Doctors was created by medical colleges to signify the importance of the role that such colleges, hospitals and he...

Volunteering overseas is a goal for many doctors. While it's not for the faint hearted it's also incredibly rewarding, as Dr Thomas Schaefer...

This year a new protocol has been in development aimed at supporting information sharing between the College and hospitals. Instrumental in...

After facing his own battle with mental illness, cardiologist Dr Geoffrey Toogood champions mental health support for fellow medical profess...

The only profession that continues to use gendered titles in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand is surgery. Spearheading a push to phase out...

Climate change and other environmental issues may not be at the front of your mind when you're dealing with any number of minor or major med...

Australian financial regulator APRA has announced major reforms to income protection insurance, which will reduce the amount of benefits ava...

RACS Rural Surgery Fellowship for Provincial Surgeons helps provincial surgeons to take time away from their practice to travel and develop...

The RACS Clinical Trials Network Australia and New Zealand – or CTANZ – was formed in 2017 to provide a structure for RACS Train...

One of the largest providers of scholarships and grants for the surgical community worldwide is the RACS Foundation for Surgery's Scholarshi...

In 2020, Dr Muecke was awarded Australian of the Year in recognition for his many decades of pioneering blindness prevention, particularly i...