Dr Gorges received her fellowship in 2019 and has a keen interest in GP research/education. She completed 12 months as an academic registrar in Mackay with an emerging record of publication related to Impetigo. Dr Gorges was involved in multiple research projects as an academic registrar and now continues as a senior lecturer at JCU. She graduated from the MD program at Melbourne University (2014), where she completed her first research project. She has a post-graduate qualification in Child Health and specialises in sexual health, contraception and travel medicine.

Teaching

• MD4011: Integrated Pathology and Clinical Medicine Part 1 of 3 (Level 4; TSV)
• MD4012: Integrated Pathology and Clinical Medicine Part 2 of 3 (Level 4; TSV)
• MD4013: Integrated Pathology and Clinical Medicine Part 3 of 3 (Level 4; TSV)
• MD5010: Integrated Clinical Practice Part 1 of 3 (Level 5; TSV)
• MD5020: Integrated Clinical Practice Part 2 of 3 (Level 5; TSV)
• MD5030: Integrated Clinical Practice Part 3 of 3 (Level 5; TSV)

Interests

Professional

• Sexual health, contraception, travel medicine

Research

• General Practice

Teaching

• General Practice

Experience

• 2018 - Academic Registrar, James Cook University (Mackay)

Research Disciplines

• Public Health and Health Services (1117)
• Clinical Sciences (1103)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Clinical Health (9201)
• Public Health (9204)

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Journal Articles

• Gorges H, Heal C, Van Driel M, Tapley A, Davis J, Holliday E, Ball J, Najib N, Spike N, FitzGerald K and Magin P (2020) Prevalence and associations of General Practice registrars’ management of Impetigo: a cross-sectional analysis from the registrar clinical encounters in training (ReCEnT) study. Dermatology Practical & Conceptual, 10 (2), Article: e2020043, DOI:10.5826/dpc.1002a43.
• Heal C, Gorges H, van Driel M, Tapley A, Davis J, Davey A, Holliday L, Ball J, Najib N, Spike N, FitzGerald K and Magin P (2019) Antibiotic stewardship in skin infections: a cross-sectional analysis of early-career GP’s management of impetigo. BMJ Open, 9, Article: e031527, DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031527.
• Thomson H, Ekinci E, Radcliffe N, Seah J, MacIsaac R, Jerums G and Premaratne E (2016) Elevated baseline glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is independently associated with a more rapid decline in renal function of patients with type 1 diabetes. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, 30 (2), pp. 256-261, DOI:10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2015.11.003.

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