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Dr May began as a volunteer when he was a resident medical officer.

“I became hooked as soon as I started attending a number of big race incidents”, he explains.

His role has since grown to include management, coordination, mentoring and education. The social aspects, pre-hospital care work, high-pressured environment and the opportunity to work as a tight-knit team are other drawcards for many doctors.

Risks to competitors under race conditions can include high-speed collisions, the potential for car rollovers, pit lane fires as well as high-velocity impacts with speed traps and

barriers, Dr May explains.“Motorsport is a fairly unique

experience in medicine. It has been often compared to warfare where you see trauma happen right in front of you and the response time is measured in seconds, not minutes”, he says.

“While many of us are part of a team during our regular work, the cohesive, interdependent team in motorsports medicine is very different. With groups of three to four people within a total team of 15–20 people, we work together with little other

In this section

C1FEATURE

Boost your day job

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NEWS & REVIEWS

Gender pay divide

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MEdICAl MENToR

Dr Gordon Shymko and his career in psychiatry

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REgISTRAR Q+A

Dr Sarah Michael

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RoAd lESS TRAVEllEd

Dr Gerard Ingham and Dr Genevieve Yates

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MoNEY ANd PRACTICE

Building a team

There are skills to be learned, challenges to be overcome and great fun to be had for doctors working with sporting organisations. And some great sport to watch as an added bonus.

If you can’t find specialist anaesthetist Dr Brent May in the operating theatre, it’s more than

likely you’ll find him trackside at some of Australia’s key motorsport events.

Dr May is president and part of the executive of Team Medical Australia, which is a not-for-profit association that provides medical services to motorsport competitors, support crew and officials. He is also chief medical officer for the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix and World Superbikes, organising and managing a team of over 100 people for the event.

Motivated by an interest in trauma medicine and a love of motor racing,

Boost your day job

Dr Brent May

“Using my skills outside the operating room definitely enhances my career satisfaction’’

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support. You come to rely on your colleagues in a different way to being in a hospital or clinic.

The drive to do moreMotor racing is just one of many sports where Australian doctors volunteer their time or take up paid roles. From community sporting events, such as rowing and fun runs, to organised professional competitions like triathlons, rugby league matches and even the Olympic Games, doctors of all levels and specialties are providing care, support, expertise and advice.

Sydney-based sport and exercise physician Dr Diana Robinson has enjoyed the benefits that come with stretching her reach into new and exciting areas.

Throughout her career she has worked with all kinds of professional athletes in a range of key roles, including Australian team doctor for the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games; medical director of Triathlon Australia; medical director for the men’s and women’s triathlon at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games; and part of the International Triathlon Union Doping Commission.

Today, her busy roles as mother and doctor have kept her behind the desk but she still finds time to work as honorary doctor for the Leichhardt Rowing Club and as medical director for TV dance show So You Think You Can Dance, since the series’ launch five years ago.

With competitors dancing 10–12 hours per day, seven days a week, plus two live shows, the role was busy and demanding.

“When a dancer needed to be seen, they

had to be seen quickly and have investigations ordered and performed immediately”, Dr Robinson says. That’s where it was crucial to have good relationships with radiologists and other allied health and medical practitioners, she adds.

Dr Robinson would perform an “entry medical” and “exit medical” on dance competitors along with care for the day-to-day injuries and illnesses.

“There have been a number of stress fractures, ankle injuries, dislocated joints, back injuries and ruptured muscles throughout the series. Most dancers are carrying at least one injury through the show’s season.”

The benefitsFor Dr May, volunteer work has helped to keep his skills sharp and his career satisfaction high.

“Using my skills outside the operating room definitely enhances my career satisfaction. Working with incredible volunteers and learning to work effectively in a large team environment brings satisfaction both by attending events and learning skills that I can use back at ‘work’, such as team building, education and trauma knowledge”, he says.

When he’s not surrounded by the smell of burning rubber, Dr May’s regular job involves anaesthetist work as a visiting medical officer at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and in some private institutions. He also works as a retrieval physician with Adult Retrieval Victoria and is an instructor for the Early Management of Severe Trauma Course with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Dr Robinson agrees that there is much to gain from providing medical coverage at sporting events, including the opportunity for activities outside regular consultations and beyond the usual doctor–patient interaction.

“In terms of the volunteer work with athletes, it is both challenging and fun to be the doctor for a sporting event. Competitors are always greatly appreciative and you can make some good friendships”, she says. Plus, she adds, “the experience of being outside, working in sunshine, rain or snow, is always better than being in an office!”

You also get the best seat in the house at major sporting events and the experience can add value to your CV, she says.

Karen Burge

Current controversies

Along with more serious roles in professional sport comes serious responsibility. Recent controversy over the use of banned substances in sport has put the spotlight on doctors and sports scientists. Sports Medicine Australia CEO Mr Nello Marino said the organisation encouraged all sports medicine professionals to be vigilant in their observation and reporting of suspect behaviour and practices by players, officials and other personnel, including sport science and medical personnel.

News & Reviews

Gender pay divide

Australian research has put a dollar value on the gender pay gap, showing that general practitioners who are mothers earn up to $105 000 a year less than male GPs with children.

The take-home pay of female GPs with children was also $25 000 less than their childless female colleagues.

Led by University of Melbourne health economist Professor Tony Scott, the research analysed data from 3618 GPs as part of the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) panel survey.

It found that while women with children work fewer hours, “doctor dads” worked longer and harder.

“Male GPs with children seem to work longer hours in order to be the responsible ‘breadwinner’ as their partners take time off”, Professor Scott said. “This does suggest that a traditional male gender role still dominates.”

He added that this behaviour change also increased the gap in earnings between male and female doctors.

As for the salary slump female GP mums experienced, the data did not show signs of a catch-up to former take-home pay levels.

“We did look at those over the age of 40 and those under 40 and results were fairly similar. Those over 40 still experienced these [pay] differences. Research of other occupations has also found that the earnings differential [between men and women] is persistent over time.”

Professor Scott said the results highlighted a need for more flexibility in medical training programs and medical jobs in order to maintain the participation of women in the medical workforce.

The study was published by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and funded from a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Medical Workforce Dynamics.

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Medical mentor

Mind mattersDr Gordon Shymko reflects on his career in psychiatry

I have always enjoyed the holistic and individualised nature of providing care in psychiatry. To work with patients who so readily share their life experience is such a privilege and responsibility. What crystallised my initial interest relates to mentoring. When I was a medical student, I came to the first day of my rotation in psychiatry to find that I had been placed with a psychiatrist who had a reputation for being “tough” on medical students. It turned out that he simply didn’t suffer fools gladly. He became a wonderful mentor and teacher, and demonstrated an unbridled enthusiasm and interest in the area which was infectious.

I work within a public mental health system. As the clinical director, my responsibilities span the range of services that we provide within community and inpatient and across adult to older adult. I can start my day anywhere within a 100-kilometre range as we cover a large catchment area. I maintain a high clinical workload and, on a given day, will be seeing inpatients from an open to a closed ward setting or seeing patients in our community services. I provide a number of second opinions, try to prioritise educational meetings and I enjoy participating in our journal club, local tutorials and exam practice opportunities. I also attempt to maintain supervision sessions with registrars as sacrosanct, and enjoy the variety of supervision opportunities.

I have established a good track record over the years within my clinical and supervisory work and it is from this that I draw much satisfaction. Professionally, since 2000, I have enjoyed working with the PaRK MHS and feel that the service has been community focused, progressive and collaborative. When

I undertook the clinical director role in 2006 we were in the early stages of developing our inpatient service. This was quite an eye-opener to squarely experience the bureaucracy of health. We worked hard to develop a unit that our local community can be proud of.

I enjoy the day-to-day clinical work with clients and carers immensely. Working with youth within an early intervention-for-psychosis framework is exceptionally rewarding. I have enjoyed the opportunity to influence service development and delivery in my role as clinical director. I enjoy the collegiality of my work and my experiences being able to supervise, teach and mentor staff. Anyone who has undertaken a management role such as clinical director would offer similar experiences regarding the challenges of such a role, especially balancing the desire to provide strong service delivery within the administrative constraints around structure and budget. With mental health, service demand routinely outstrips capacity.

I have been mentored by a number of people throughout my career. Dr Blaine Sanderman, whose clinical skills and principles were unparalleled — I gained an immense intangible clinical knowledge from him that I draw upon daily; Dr Henry Piktel, who taught me the importance of humour, humility and compassion; Dr John Kelly, who taught me the principles of psychotherapy; Dr Sandy Tait, from whom I learnt about leadership and the principles and structures of service delivery; and Professor Pat McGorry — I have been influenced by his approach to client care and by the vision, dedication and leadership that he has provided to our profession.

Interview by Karen Burge

Dr Gordon Shymko is the clinical director of the Peel and Rockingham Kwinana Mental Health Service (PaRK MHS) in Western Australia and the consultant psychiatrist responsible for the Early Episode Psychosis Program. His clinical interest is in the area of managing psychotic disorders, particularly early presentations of psychosis in youth and the psychopharmacology of these illnesses. Throughout his career, Dr Shymko has maintained a strong interest in supervision and teaching and has been an inspiration to those he has mentored

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Dr Sarah Michael is a psychiatry registrar, who has trained under Dr Gordon Shymko.

What is your current role? I have recently moved to Sydney to take on the advanced trainee role at the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD), a specialist anxiety disorders clinic based at St Vincent’s Hospital. The clinic has developed an internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) program to treat anxiety and depression, so part of my role is to supervise these patients. I also see patients for face-to-face CBT, coordinate the medical students doing their psychiatric rotations and participate in research.

What inspired you to work in this area? Adult psychiatry has always interested me because of the breadth of clinical presentations, the continuity of care and the ability to work in a team. I saw the job at CRUfAD as an opportunity to develop some non-clinical skills, such as teaching and research, as well as gain more experience in treating anxiety and depression.

What do you find most enjoyable about your training program? I've enjoyed the increased flexibility that comes with advanced training, particularly using learning goals and research projects to review specific areas of interest. I've met some great people along the way, both in Sydney and in my hometown Perth.

What is next for you? My training will be finished in early 2014 and I’m hoping to work as a community-based psychiatrist in a public mental health service.

What do you admire most about Dr Shymko as a mentor? Gordon established a fantastic intern program at Fremantle Hospital, ensuring that interns received great teaching and clinical experience. I’ve been lucky enough to work with Gordon several times as his registrar and admire not only his commitment to teaching but also his advocacy and directorship of the local mental health service.

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Road less travelled

Dr Gerard Ingham and Dr Genevieve Yates met for the first time at a band rehearsal. In the

middle of the desert.“It was like Ocean’s 11”, Dr Ingham

says. “We were a group of GPs who played music. We’d spoken on the phone and Skype, but never met. We all flew into Alice Springs for the 2010 General Practice Education and Training (GPET) conference. Then we rendezvoused about 100 kilometres out of town at an old station and started rehearsing.”

The end result was Simon and the GPettes, who provided the entertainment for the conference, and went on to such YouTube hits as Honky tonk woman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPjnAqJBnU0&feature=youtu.be), These boots are made for walking (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwS_8w41tuA) and Don’t know why (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9WAjTLUzrk&feature=youtu.be).

“Genevieve was part of the group and I read one of her plays called Physician heal thyself. There was a character called Mr Black, an OCD patient who kept charts of his bowel function”, Dr Ingham says.

“Then I played her a song I’d written when I was a student about a smarmy doctor who never gets rid of his patients, called Come back again. And GP the musical came out of that.”

The show progressed to the point where Drs Ingham and Yates pulled together a cast of theatrically inclined fellow GPs and medical educators following auditions at the 2011 GPET conference in Canberra. They added director Dr Katrina Anderson in to the mix and pitched the show to the organisers in time to perform to standing ovations at the 2012 GPET

conference in Melbourne.In April, GP the musical returns to

the southern capital for a short season as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

“It’s a little bit daunting because this will be performing for a broader audience rather than a roomful of GPs”, Dr Ingham says. “But we’re very much looking forward to it.”

For Dr Ingham, Simon and the GPettes and GP the musical have been a way back to one of his first loves, music.

Now living and working as a GP in Daylesford in the Victorian goldfields, Dr Ingham taught himself to play the guitar as a teenager and then entertained his fellow medical students at the University of Melbourne from 1981 to 1986.

“Then from the age of 25 to 45, music just left my life”, he says.

It took a medical education workshop and a postcard to himself to bring music back.

“As part of the workshop we had to write and post a postcard back to ourselves”, Dr Ingham says. “I wrote something about wanting to get back into music. I forgot all about it. But for my next birthday my wife bought me a new guitar.”

For Dr Yates, music and writing have never been out of her life.

“Having started violin at age 4 and piano at age 5, I’ve played and performed ever since”, she says. “I began teaching [music] in my late teens, which paid my way through med school, with up to 30 students a week.

“I get a huge thrill from the freedom of temporarily stepping out of my life and onto the stage as a fictional character.”

In addition to working as a physician in the Northern Rivers district of New

South Wales, Dr Yates is a medical educator with North Coast GP Training, is on two national medical education committees and has had short stories, plays and a novel — Silver linings — published.

“Collaborating with Gerard on the music, lyrics and script of GP the musical has been a very rewarding and enjoyable experience — despite our having a few minor creative differences along the way!”, Dr Yates says.

Dr Ingham concurs. “We work together really well as a team”, he says. “Genevieve writes the boob and poo jokes, and I do the corny dad jokes.”

For both doctors, music and performing have become integral parts of the way they balance their demanding professional lives and their sanity.

“Yes, I’m a better doctor for having music back in my life”, Dr Ingham says. “It does give me that break, uses a different part of my brain and I can use it to help me get to sleep. It enables me to switch off.

“Doing general practice can be creative — you’re always looking for solutions to problems — but mostly we work on our own. It’s great to work collaboratively with other people on music and the show.

“The value of the band and the show is that they have enabled GPs to have a great time together doing something completely non-medical. It’s a wonderful thing to share.”

GP the musical runs from Wednesday 17 April until Saturday 20 April inclusive at the Gasworks Theatre in Albert Park, Melbourne. Bookings can be made at www.gasworks.org.au or by calling 03 9699 3253.

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Treading the boards

“ Yes, I’m a better doctor for getting music back into my life

’’

General practitioners and medical educators Genevieve Yates and Gerard Ingham met while playing in a band and discovered a mutual interest in theatre, writing, music and entertaining. And so, GP the musical was born. Now the Melbourne International Comedy Festival beckons.

Dr Gerard Ingham

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“Building a team spirit ... means creating an environment in which all staff ... feel they are an important part of the practice’s success

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Primary Care Collaboratives (APCC) program run by the South Australian-based Improvement Foundation (IF). When the program was first established in 2004 to encourage quality improvements in general practice, the IF quickly realised that effective change required a team approach in which all staff were engaged.

To help practices achieve this, they developed five “Change ideas”:• Set realistic goals• Communicate with other team

members• Engage the team• Develop the team• Reflect on and review what you are

doing Clinical adviser Dr Andrew Knight

says that in the end the improved cohesion and communication this creates can lift both practice income and patient outcomes, particularly when it comes to chronic care.

“If all of your team — from the receptionist to the nurse to the doctor — understand what your goals are, say with diabetes care, they understand that what we’re aiming for is that most people have an HbA1c [glycated haemoglobin] of less than 7, then they take a sense of pride in achieving those goals”, he says.

“To me, it’s essential that if you’re

Money and practice

From tutus to morning teas, Australian general practitioners are beginning to think about team spirit

Building a team

Abseiling, paintball, crazy races and other team-building antics have long been considered the

province of corporate human resources budgets rather than the slim margins of general practice.

But as Australian practices grow in size, some are realising the business sense in fostering staff dynamics amid the day-to-day rigours of running a medical centre — ensuring everyone from the receptionist to the registrar knows why they are there and how to work well together. At the same time, research is showing this approach can improve patient care, particularly when it comes to chronic disease management.

Victorian GP Dr Richard Bills has done more team-building than most (see Box). For 15 years he and his colleagues have been fostering the collaborative spirit within their practice with a mix of philosophy, communication and fun. There has been tutu-wearing, go-kart racing and even what he calls a “pilgrimage” to Seattle’s Pike Place fish markets.

“I think it’s not a cost. It’s an investment”, Dr Bills says. “Team-building is an investment.”

Building a team spirit within a practice means creating an environment in which all staff — doctors, receptionists, nurses, allied health practitioners, registrars and students — feel they are an important part of the practice’s success, says organisational psychologist Dr Paul Waight.

Dr Waight is a lecturer at Central Queensland University and tells the story of a recent first visit to a new general practice. After suffering a long period of benign neglect in the waiting room, he was ushered in to see the GP.

“[And] when the doctor saw what I did, he said ‘Oh, maybe you could help

me run this place?’.” “I said no, as it was

a conflict of interest”, Waight laughs. But his waiting room experience had suggested that some help was needed. It appeared that the staff were so focused on their own roles that they hadn’t been able to acknowledge his presence as a client.

“It’s worthwhile putting the client at the centre of the organisation. It sounds trite, but so often people get so enmeshed in the day-to-day running of things — the procedures, the rules and things — that the client is pushed to one side.”

Dr Waight says that the foundations of team-building are setting clear goals for the organisation and establishing lines of communication between all levels. “We see with most organisations there seems to be a certain level of deafness to upward communication. That’s always a problem.”

This can be overcome with a combination of formal channels, as in practice meetings; semi-formal get-togethers, as in morning teas; and informally, as in corridor talk or instant messaging.

Goals and communicationCreating effective practice teams through communication and goal-setting is a focus of the Australian

Dr Paul Waight

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to devote money to this area is vulnerable.

But because he feels it is so important to practice cohesion, efficiency and ultimately care, he suggests there could be a future Practice Incentives Program (PIP) in this area, perhaps related to practice meetings.

“Something that promotes team functioning within Australian general practice”, Dr Knight says, noting that some APCC participants had never had a practice meeting before joining the program.

Far from requiring abseiling, paintball or other extreme bonding sessions, it’s increased communication and shared goals that can make the difference when it comes to everybody in the practice working well together. In a practical way, this can mean practice principals contributing to a staff dinner once or twice a year, staging an end of year Christmas party for staff and family, and birthday wishes for everybody.

“One of the notions about the team is about people looking out for each other, people recognising that they’re part of a chain and that if a link is missing, you don’t have a good chain”, Dr Bills says. “It’s not necessarily about flying all your staff to the Bahamas for a love-in for a week. It’s often about acknowledging the little things.”

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going to achieve things, everyone’s on board, pulling in the same direction.”

Evaluation of the APCC has shown improved outcomes for chronic disease management, thanks in part to effective team management with the participating practices.

“If you organise all of your diabetes patients to have a care plan properly done and you do that in a comprehensive way because of your practice systems, you will increase the income of the practice [Chronic care item numbers are higher earning] — but you’ll also improve your chronic disease care”, Dr Knight says.

However Dr Knight says there is a lot working against team-building in general practice.

“All the drivers in Australian general practice are for a GP to sit in their room and see more patients because that’s where the financial results are.

“There is no quick money in stopping and thinking about what you’re doing, talking to your colleagues, organising things to be done better.

“But there is long-term money in it.

It just requires great self-discipline to step out of the practice for an hour, forgo all the income, just to talk to each other and plan.”

InvestmentDr Bills has been stepping out of his practice to talk and make plans for 15 years. His practice now spends more than $1000 per staff member per year on team-building activities, and they have a staff of 52.

“So that’s $50 000 a year from my practice. But I get great value for that”, Dr Bills says.

Although such costs are tax deductible, the tight margins in Australian general practice mean that courage is required to make investments of any amount in team-building, let alone $50 000. And with recent cutbacks, including in mental health rebates and immunisation, Dr Knight fears the ability of practices

Current controversies

It was the growing number of staff that prompted the Brook Street Medical Centre to begin actively fostering their practice team in the mid-1990s. They soon adopted the FISH! management philosophy, developed by Steve London after observing the fishmongers at Seattle’s Pike Place Fish Markets.

Today, all staff learn the four principles: Be there, Play, Make their day, and Choose your attitude.

“The staff have been uniformly very positive towards it for two reasons”, Dr Bills says. “One of them is the fact that everybody does it. In particular the owners of the business do it — ‘walk my walk’ is a pretty strong theme. The converse of that is that there’s nothing we’d ask our staff to do that we wouldn’t be prepared to do ourselves.”

Communication is also important. Semi-formally, all staff birthdays are celebrated with a choice of birthday cake, bottle of wine or movie voucher.

Professional achievements are also acknowledged with after-work drinks.

For formal discussion, the practice holds all-staff team meetings twice a year on top of the regular clinical staff and administration staff meetings. At these times they shut the practice down for two hours on a weekday and provide lunch.

And the highlight of the year is an annual winter dinner party. Months of light-hearted planning goes into the event, which has previously involved mystery bus trips, go-kart racing, riddle trails and the directors dressing in tutus.

Dr Bills says that while results are not immediately measurable, a simple example of the difference it has made is the fact that staff will always go the extra mile — stopping in at the weekend to finish something — because they’re supported. “Everybody knows that they’re part of the team.”

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Medical Superintendent with Right of PracticeSenior Medical Services, Normanton Hospital, Normanton, North West Hospital and Health Service. Remuneration value up to $265 437 p.a., comprising salary between $117 905 - $128 868 p.a., employer contribution to superannuation (up to 12.75%) and annual leave loading (17.5%), private use of fully maintained vehicle, communications package, professional development allowance and 3.6 weeks p.a. leave, professional indemnity cover, employer provided accommodation, inaccessibility incentive $41 400 paid at completion of six months service, private practice arrangements plus overtime and on-call allowances etc. (MSR1.1 – MSR1.4) (Applications will remain current for 12 months). Duties / Abilities: Provide high quality clinical services for hospital inpatient and outpatients as a member of a multidisciplinary team delivering integrated primary and secondary level health services, whilst actively involved in the implementation of the chronic disease strategy and the provision of professional development support to health staff.Enquiries: Melissa Onysko (07) 4744 4090.Job Ad Reference: H13MI0282.Application Kit: www.health.qld.gov.au/workforus or (07) 4750 6776Closing Date: Sunday, 24 March 2013.

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The Trustees of the Foundation are pleased to announce two classes of research grants to be awarded in 2013 and commencing in 2014.

SYLVIA AND CHARLES VIERTEL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION SENIOR MEDICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Up to two Fellowships tenable in Australia of fi ve years tenure at $245,000 per annum for a researcher from any discipline in medical science.

VIERTEL CLINICAL INVESTIGATORS

$85,000 for clinical researchers who have recently completed their clinical and research training and who have been no more than 24 months in their fi rst defi nitive career post in Australia. Up to fi ve awards are available.

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Closing date: 1 May 2013

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