Clinical director Ray Moore said the joint project between Bendigo Health, Bendigo Community Health Services and Monash University had been critical in training the region’s health professionals.

“Being rather quiet achievers probably few people know what were doing, [but] the impact is that by making teaching and training a priority we’ve been instrumental in supplying Bendigo with well-trained GPs,” he said.

“Being a teaching and training practice we perhaps have a larger focus on maintaining our skills and keeping updated, because if you’re teaching you have to and I think that impacts on the quality of care.”

Dr Moore said the clinic had been in existence for many years before the transition to a GP super clinic, but had since been able to expand its operations.

“We were actually doing all of that before from five rooms, it’s just that now we have more dedicated infrastructure in order to grow that,” he said.