About
What is GP Lyf Hacks?
“GP Lyf Hacks” is a FREE Australian health literacy podcast for doctors in training, students of medicine, nursing, allied health and health sciences and anyone who wants to understand their own health better.
The podcast was created by RACGP Australian GP of the Year, Dr David Lam, during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that doctors in training continued to receive the highest quality training despite cancellations of face-to-face teaching across the country.
Due to increasing popularity, GP Lyf Hacks has expanded it’s educational resources to include video tutorials on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram and downloadable written resources in addition the audio podcast available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Soundcloud.
PLEASE NOTE: We are providing general health literacy not specific health advice.
What makes GP Lyf Hacks Unique?
It is easily digestible. Our education is delivered in bite-sized pieces, ie. 20-minute podcast episodes and 1-minute video tutorials, so that the information is easily digestible and memorable. It should also make learning fun as oppose to a chore.
It is easily accessible. Our content is delivered in a range of formats using popular apps that are easily accessible such as Spotify and Instagram. No more logging into multiple portals for quick reference!
It is evidence-based and full of real-life cases and experiences of Australian GP of the Year, Dr David Lam, making the tutorials practical, current and relevant.
It is practical. Health literacy is for everyone, not just professionals therefore communication is just as important as the science. Concepts are easily explained so that they can be useful to everyone.
About the Founder
Dr David Lam MBBS FRACGP FARGP is a rural General Practitioner from South Australia who has worked in Eyre Peninsula since 2016. He is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and Senior Lecturer at University of Adelaide Health Simulation.
He was awarded the prestigious 2019 RACGP National General Practitioner of the Year Award and named one of the InDaily 40Under40 South Australia in 2020. David is one of ten recipients of the 2021 national General Practitioner Procedural Training Support Program and currently training to be a GP anaesthetist at Cairns Hospital, Queensland.
David has a passion for teaching people about health and has been a supervisor of medical students, junior doctors and GP registrars since 2012. He created the GP Lyf Hacks podcast during the COVID-19 pandemic to make sure that his students and registrars continued to be trained well despite their face-to-face teaching workshops being cancelled due to social restrictions.
You can find out more about Dr David Lam from his official website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.