Michael Tam

Dr Michael Tam is a clinical academic Specialist General Practitioner, combining the provision of family medicine, research, health services development, and governance. Michael’s clinical interest is in the whole-person primary care of people living with mental illness. He is actively involved in mental health policy, strategy, and governance, with local, state, and national bodies. Michael’s research is in integrated care and preventive care in general practice. He has expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Most commented posts

  1. Health Check: can you treat the common cold? — 6 comments
  2. Monday’s medical myth: take an aspirin a day after you turn 50 — 3 comments
  3. Quoted in ABC Life article, “Knowing when you should call into work sick with a cold or flu” — 3 comments
  4. Monday’s medical myth: cranberry juice prevents bladder infections — 2 comments
  5. Health Check: should we aim for daily bowel movements? — 2 comments

Author's posts

Jul 04 2011

Career Day – General Practice Training

The following short presentation was given to junior medical officers at the Sydney Children’s Hospital. This presentation is hosted at Prezi.com. General Practice Training – 4 July 2011 on Prezi

Mar 09 2011

GPSN Grand rounds presentation at UNSW

The following is a “grand rounds” presentation given to interested medical students at the University of New South Wales.  The event was hosted by the General Practice Students Network (GPSN).  The case demonstrates principles of mental health care in the general practice context. This presentation is available as a PDF (hosted through Google Drive).

Mar 02 2011

Journal club!

This small group presentation on how to present at evidence-based journal clubs was given to medical educators on Wednesday 2 March 2011, at GP Synergy (former) Smithfield Office. The presentation is in PDF format and is hosted by Google Drive.

Dec 30 2010

Morsels of Evidence

The goal of the Morsels of Evidence website is to provide Australian general practitioners regular updates that are short, sharp and immediately clinically relevant; distilled evidence from contemporaneous published articles in peer-reviewed journals. It hopes to make a practical difference for individual general practitioners, and to improve the quality of health care delivery in primary …

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Oct 08 2006

The Creation of The Medicine Box

“The Creation of The Medicine Box” is a comprehensive documentation of the design, goals, development and construction of the website, The Medicine Box.  It contains a review and analysis of the state of the project after six months from its launch in April 2006. This report was in addition written and designed as a guidebook …

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Apr 01 2006

The Medicine Box

The Medicine Box is a weblog containing tips, tricks and cheats for Australian junior medical officers. It was developed as a joint Professional Development Project during my general practice training along with Dr May Su. http://vitualis.wordpress.com