Preparation for Practice

The Victorian State Committee recently delivered its annual Preparation for Practice course on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 July 2023. This two-day workshop is designed to provide Younger Fellows and Trainees with an overview of all the areas to consider when setting up their private practice.

This is a comprehensive course with topics including billing, building a practice administration team, financial management, legal responsibilities, working with private hospitals, and building a referral base.

We also included a new component relevant to any member, understanding cyber responsibilities, which included a presentation from the Department of Home Affairs, Cyber and Infrastructure Security Outreach branch. Concerningly, we learnt that Healthcare is one of the most targeted industries for cyber-attacks/hacks. We heard from Melissa Tan, Partner, Lander & Rogers and Cyber Security Lawyer of the Year, and Mark Luckin, Lockton, discussing methods to protect your practice and your responsibilities to your patients, partners, and brand.

With so many fantastic speakers, the feedback has been excellent. Thank you to Dr Patrick Lo and Dr Mariolyn Raj for convening this course, Dr Nicole Yapp and Dr Michael Law for again providing their insightful presentations, and Dr Eric Levi, who joined us for the first time on the critical topic of choosing to use (or choosing not to use) Social Media and Self Care.

Also, a big thank you to our excellent industry presenters and sponsors for their continued support - Bongiorno, Avant, Zaparas Lawyers, Ramsay Health and Healthscope, Genie Solutions, Rooms with Style, Med Health, MIPS and Prescribe Practice Management.

View the program here (PDF 1.36MB)

Please find the slides for some presentations below:

Avant - Building a Practice Admin Team (PDF 4.72MB)

Avant - Mitigating Risk (PDF 676.18KB)

Bongirono - Financial Literacy for Surgeons (PDF 921.78KB)

Bongirono - Protecting your greatest asset (PDF 907.58KB)

Cyber Security and the Healthcare Sector (PDF 1.9MB)

Cyber Law - Landon and Rogers (PDF 2.93MB)

Genie Solutions - Practice Software (PDF 2.56MB)

Healthscope - Working with Private Hospitals (PDF 737.32KB)

Lockton - Cyber Insurance (PDF 917.35KB)

Ramsay Health - Working with private hospitals (PDF 711.05KB)

Rooms with Style - SUNDAY (PDF 4.8MB)

Zaparas Lawyers - Preparing Medio Legal Reports (PDF 1.49MB)

Register here (RACS login required - if you don't have a RACS account, you will need to sign up for one when following the registration link). Please note this event is not sold out, should the registration page show this alert, please contact us on the details below. 

Preparation for Practice Flyer (PDF 464.08KB)

Please contact Lauren Bedson at lauren.bedson@surgeons.org or the RACS VIC office at college.vic@surgeons.org should you have any questions or any issues registering for this event.  

Thank you to all our sponsors and exhibitors for their support of the Preparation for Practice Workshop.