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Dear Editor
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) states completion of a basic CPR course is a mandatory prerequisite for meeting its Quality Improvement and Continuing Professional Development Program (QI&CPD) requirements for the 2011-2013 triennium.1
Many GPs accredited for emergency practice, working in either tertiary hospital emergency departments (EDs) or rural/regional EDs, have up-to-date advanced life support certificates such as:
* advanced life support (ALS)
* paediatric advanced life support (PALS)
* advanced trauma life support (ATLS/EMST).
I am a GP whose practice includes academia, community general practice and hospital practice. For my hospital appointments I...