Author :: May Su
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Dr May Su B.Sc.(Med), M.B., B.S. (University of NSW), F.R.A.C.G.P., GradDip.M.H.(GP) General Practitioner |
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Undergraduate experience
May Su is a medical doctor in New South Wales, Australia. She started her medical degree at the University of Adelaide and later transferred to the program at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, graduating in December 2002. Clinical attachments during her undergraduate training were mainly at St. Vincent’s Public Hospital in Darlinghurst though there were numerous rotations to other hospitals including St. George Hospital, Liverpool Hospital, Shoalhaven District Hospital, Albury Base Hospital, and Wagga Wagga Base Hospital.
May’s undergraduate “elective term” was in Scotland, United Kingdom, in the cities of Edinburgh and Livingston. Furthermore, she spent a voluntary two month elective-like term the year earlier in the prestigious Christian Medical College in Vellore, India.
Postgraduate experience
Medical internship and residency was based in the former Illawarra Area Health Service (now conglomerated into the mega South East Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service), primarily at The Wollongong Hospital and Shellharbour Hospital.
While in the Illawarra, May held the position of RMO Representative to the Area Network Committee of The Wollongong Hospital Resident Medical Officer (RMO) Association. In that capacity, she had her “finger on the pulse” of the machinations, issues and policies at the level of the area health service as well as injecting issues and opinions relevant to junior medical officers (JMOs) into the group awareness of upper management. The RMO Association at that period enjoyed some notoriety of being relatively active at an industrial level and was able to effect many changes to the benefit of JMOs.
General Practice training
In her PGY2 (RMO1) year, May applied for general practice training and was accepted by the Sydney Institute of General Practice Education and Training (SIGPET), the central Sydney GP training consortium – with the training year beginning in 2005. As part of her training, May worked for six months in a special skills term as a Psychiatry registrar at Shellharbour Hospital. She spent a further six months working in paediatrics at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick.
In the first half of 2006, May went into community general practice in Darlinghurst, Sydney, at the “407 Doctors” practice. This practice specialised in sexual health, HIV medicine, drug and alcohol, and mental health. In the second half of 2006, May moved to Dubbo, a rural centre of NSW and into a practice more involved in general family medicine.
May completed her mentorship term in Cremorne Medical Practice (in Cremorne) and successfully passed the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) examination in April/May 2007. She was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (F.R.A.C.G.P.) in October of the same year.
May is currently a full-time General Practitioner at the Cremorne Medical Practice.
Career interests
May has a strong interest in mental health, particularly in psychological therapies. Having had significant experience in clinical psychiatry in the inpatient setting, May has a preference for outpatient psychiatry. She has attained Level 2 Certification in the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care program and runs a once weekly psychotherapy clinic. She is midway through post-graduate studies with the NSW Institute of Psychiatry, completing a Graduate Diploma in Mental Health (General Practice) in 2008 and is planning on starting a clinical masters.
May has also been involved with medical education as part of her role as a psychiatry registrar and teaching medical students in both hospital and in general practice.
Other interests
May is an excellent cook and is known for her elaborate dinner parties and excellent desserts. Her specialty include her tiramisu and pumpkin mascarpone cheesecake.
Updated: 26 April 2009
