Attitudes to taking a sexual history in general practice in Victoria, Australia

Attitudes to taking a sexual history in general practice in Victoria, Australia.

OBJECTIVE To examine general practitioners' (GPs') attitudes towards taking a sexual history. METHODS Questions on sexual history taking were included in a random survey on the STD knowledge, attitudes, and practices of 600 GPs practising in Victoria, Australia. RESULTS Most GPs commonly asked patients about safe sex (79%), number of sex partners (63%), and injecting drug use (60%) while fe...

Current practice of sexual history taking by sexual health physicians in Australia and New Zealand.

OBJECTIVES To document the current practice of fellows of the Australasian College of Sexual Health Physicians (ACSHP) when taking a sexual history from a new client. METHOD A postal questionnaire was sent to all eligible fellows practising sexual health medicine in public sexual health centres in Australia and New Zealand (n = 93). The study period extended from 3 February to 4 April 2003 in...

Sexual health in general practice: history and the partner history.

Reflections on the history of general practice in Australia.

General practice has experienced change over the past century driven by a variety of influences, the most important of which have been changes in the health needs of the population, the organisation of the workforce, and medicine itself. Over this time, general practice has developed as a profession through education and, ultimately, recognition of its specialist qualifications. There has been ...

General practice in Australia 2000

General Practice in Australia 2000 retains most of the format of its predecessor, but many of the chapters have additional (as well as updated) information. There are some entirely new chapters on topics not covered at all (or only in passing) in the first edition. There is also a minor change of style: the Department says that it allowed authors “... more freedom to explore contentious issues ...