Australian Family Medical

16/04/2026

🌞🧴 Big news from AFM Skin Cancer Centre — we’re moving soon! 🎉

From little things, big things grow.

After opening our Skin Cancer Centre in September 2025, we quickly outgrew our space, and we’re so excited to share that we’ve secured a new home at 25 Argyle Street, next to the hospital. Renovations are already underway as we expand our skin cancer services. 🏗️✨

This means more space, more doctors, and better access for skin checks and treatments — helping us reduce wait times and care for even more people across Hobart. 🩺💙

With Tasmania having some of the highest rates of skin cancer in the country, improving timely access to care is something we’re truly passionate about.

👀 The build is already happening behind the scenes, and while it’s a little messy right now, we can’t wait to show you what’s coming.

✨ In the meantime, we’re still taking new patients for skin checks, with appointments available now at our current clinic at 25 Davey St.

More space. More access. Better care. Coming soon. 🌞💪

FIND US:
🌱 Book online via HotDoc:
🔗 https://www.hotdoc.com.au/search?in=hobart-TAS-7000&query=australian%20family%20medical
📞 Or call us on 6221 6800
📍 25 Davey St, Hobart (Moving to 25 Argyle St, Hobart)

11/04/2026

We’re all set up at the Farm Gate Market at Bathurst St today 👋

Come down and say hello to our team — we’re here chatting about health screening 🩺, blood pressure checks ❤️, and skin cancer awareness.

Pretty overcast today… but we’ll still talk about sunscreen 😄☁️

Whether you’ve got a quick question, want a BP check, or are just curious about what we offer, we’d love to meet you. We’re also welcoming new patients, so feel free to come have a chat and see if we’re the right fit for you 💚

See you there!

07/04/2026

💉🦠 Flu Vaccines at Australian Family Medical! 🦠💉

Flu season is just around the corner — we have flu vaccines available for everyone aged 6 months and over at AFM 😄

For your convenience, flu vaccinations can be booked during any available time slot with any of our doctors. Simply book via our HotDoc link 💪
https://www.hotdoc.com.au/medical-centres/hobart-TAS-7000/australian-family-medical/doctors

🆕 New patients welcome!

👶🧑‍🦳 Who should have a flu vaccine?
It is recommended that everyone aged 6 months and over receives a flu vaccine each year.

✨ Who gets a government-funded flu vaccine?
Eligible groups include:
👶 Children aged 6 months to under 5 years
🧓 Adults aged 65 years and over
💙 People with at-risk medical conditions
🤰 Pregnant people (at any stage of pregnancy)
🧡 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 6 months and over

💰 If you don’t fall into these categories, private flu vaccines are available for just $20.

📅 Why book early?
Flu immunity takes a few weeks to develop after vaccination, so it’s best to get protected before the flu starts circulating widely. Immunity is strongest for 3–4 months after vaccination.

Flu season usually runs from June to September (peaking in August), so April and May are ideal times to get vaccinated.

🩺 Flu clinic appointments are bulk billed — the only cost is for the vaccine itself (if you’re not eligible for a free one).

📍 We’re located in the Hobart CBD with a friendly, experienced team ready to help you stay well this winter.
📞 Call us on 6221 6800 or book online via HotDoc:
https://www.hotdoc.com.au/medical-centres/hobart-TAS-7000/australian-family-medical/doctors

💚💪 Let’s beat the flu together this season!

26/03/2026

💜 Purple Day 💜

Today we wore purple (and enjoyed some purple cupcakes 🧁) at AFM to raise awareness of epilepsy.

This is something that touches our team personally, with one of our staff members having a child with treatment-resistant epilepsy. It’s a reminder of how important awareness and understanding really are.

A small way for us to acknowledge a condition that affects many families in our community.

💜

24/03/2026

It was great to be a part of this wonderful initiative to get students interested in health careers 🩺💚

06/03/2026

10,000 Tasmanians cared for 🎉

In just over 18 months, more than 10,000 people from our community have now walked through our doors and trusted our team with their healthcare. 💚

Each of these patients represents a story — newborns coming in for their very first check-up, patients arriving worried and leaving reassured, difficult conversations, good news, and many consultations filled with relief — and with plenty of laughs along the way.

We've loved helping our community and building relationships with all 10,000 of you. Every day we’re reminded that being a GP clinic is about much more than medicine. It’s about being part of people’s lives and part of a community.

To every Tasmanian who has trusted us with their care — thank you. 💚

This milestone makes us so proud to look back at where we've grown from; two sibling GP's with a shared dream to make a different type of GP clinic. From ripping out old flooring, renovating, our first trip to officeworks, to now having served 10,000 Tasmanian's — what a journey! 💚

We’re incredibly proud to be part of this community and are pleased to still be welcoming new patients as we continue caring for the people of Hobart in the years ahead.

FIND US:
🌱 Book online via HotDoc:
🔗 https://www.hotdoc.com.au/search?in=hobart-TAS-7000&query=australian%20family%20medical
📞 Or call us on 6221 6800
📍 25 Davey St, Hobart

19/02/2026

💚 Appointments Available Today 💚

Australian Family Medical has appointments available today and into next week. 💚 With the recent addition of new doctors to our growing team, we’re able to offer more timely access to high-quality GP and skin cancer care for our community. Whether you need a routine check-up, a skin check, or help with an ongoing health concern, we’re here to provide personalised, professional care when you need it.

Book online or contact our friendly team to secure your appointment 💚

🌱 Book online via HotDoc:
🔗 https://www.hotdoc.com.au/search?in=hobart-TAS-7000&query=australian%20family%20medical
📞 Or call us on 6221 6800
📍 25 Davey St, Hobart

Australian Family Medical is a family owned GP clinic dedicated to providing our community with exceptional healthcare. We are located at 25 Davey St, Hobart, TAS, 7000.

17/02/2026

💚🌿 Welcome Dr Aram Cox – now seeing patients! 🌿💚

We’re thrilled to introduce Dr Aram Cox, the third of three new doctors to join us in the past fortnight at Australian Family Medical and the Australian Family Medical Skin Cancer Centre at 25 Davey St, Hobart.

Here’s a little about Dr Cox:

Dr Aram Cox graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2018 and completed several years of hospital training across a broad range of medical and surgical specialties at the Royal Hobart Hospital and Frankston Hospital in Victoria. He also undertook two years of training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and that experience he now brings into his work in General Practice.

Aram has a strong interest in skin cancer detection and management, procedural medicine, men’s health, chronic disease management, workers’ compensation, and paediatrics. He is committed to providing practical, evidence-based and patient-centered care to patients of all ages.

Outside of work, Aram enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing golf, and supporting Richmond.

🌱 Dr Cox is now offering:
💚 Full skin checks
💚 Single spot checks
💚 Surgical management of skin cancer
💚 Non‑surgical skin cancer management
💚 The complete range of standard GP services

📅 Clinic Days:
🟢 Australian Family Medical Skin Cancer Centre: Tuesdays & Fridays
🟢 Australian Family Medical (GP clinic): Wednesdays & Thursdays

💚🌿 Dr Cox is now accepting new patients — appointments are open and filling fast!

🌱 Book online via HotDoc:
🔗 https://www.hotdoc.com.au/search?in=hobart-TAS-7000&query=australian%20family%20medical
📞 Or call us on 6221 6800
📍 25 Davey St, Hobart

💚 With the warmer weather, it’s a great time to prioritise your skin health — our clinics use the latest FotoFinder technology for skin checks. If this could help someone you know, feel free to share.

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11/02/2026

🌿💚 Welcome Our New Doctor – Dr Victoria Ims! 💚🌿

We’re excited to welcome Dr Victoria Ims, the second of three new doctors joining us this fortnight.

Good news: with our new doctors starting, we’ve opened up more appointments, including for new patients. 🌱🟢

As a locally owned Tasmanian clinic, we’re here for our community and with increased GP capacity, it’s now a little easier to get an appointment when you need one. If you or your family have been waiting for a spot, now’s a great time to book. 💚

Meet Dr Victoria Ims:

Victoria is a Tasmanian local who completed her medical degree at the ANU in Canberra, graduating in 2022. She returned home to Hobart in 2024, working across a range of roles at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
During her hospital training, Victoria particularly enjoyed her time in paediatrics and emergency medicine.

Victoria is looking forward to the variety that General Practice offers, as well as the opportunity to build long-term relationships with patients and to support their ongoing care.
She has a special interest in preventative, women’s and children’s health.

Outside of work, Victoria enjoys hiking, trail running and camping in Tasmania’s beautiful outdoors and trying out new recipes at home.

We can’t wait for you to meet Dr Victoria Ims. 🌿

📅 Appointments are open and filling fast — book online or call us today. ✅

02/02/2026

🌿💚 Exciting News at Australian Family Medical! 💚🌿

It’s a super exciting fortnight for us — we have three new doctors joining the team, and today we’re thrilled to welcome the first!

🎉 Dr Alan Tam starts TODAY! 🎉
He’ll be working five days a week and is now taking new patients.
(He settled in quickly today— amazing what a warm hello and a good coffee can do 💚)

👇 About Dr Alan Tam:
Dr. Alan Tam, born in Canada, spent a significant portion of his early life in Hong Kong. He is fluent in both English and Cantonese.

Dr. Tam graduated from the University of Toronto in 2009. He later moved to Australia, where he earned his medical degree from the University of Queensland in 2013. Since then, Dr. Tam has been committed to providing compassionate care to the Tasmanian community.

His experience at the Tasmanian Health Service includes serving as a registrar in the intensive care unit at the Launceston General Hospital and the aero‑medical retrieval service. Dr. Tam completed his GP training in Echuca Moama in 2021. This experience provided him with valuable insights into rural healthcare challenges.

Outside of medicine, Dr. Tam enjoys travelling, cooking, and exploring food culture. When he’s not at work, you may find him trying new restaurants with his partner.

💚 We’re so excited to have Dr Tam join us — and he’s just the first of three fantastic doctors arriving!

If you’ve been looking for a GP — or know someone who has been waiting for the right moment — now’s the perfect time to book in at Australian Family Medical.
💚 New patients welcome
💚 Same‑week appointments available
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We can’t wait for you to meet him. Welcome, Dr Tam! 👏💚

Australian Family Medical is a family owned GP clinic dedicated to providing our community with exceptional healthcare. We are located at 25 Davey St, Hobart, TAS, 7000.

02/01/2026

💚🎉 Happy New Year from Australian Family Medical! 🎉💚

New Year’s resolutions? ✨ Help us reach anyone in the Hobart community looking for a family-owned GP Clinic taking new patients - we’d love to help keep Hobart healthy in 2026! 🩺

And what a year 2025 was!

Drs Emma & Jay Shoemaker and the rest of the team at AFM are so grateful for the year that has just been. We’re so proud to have grown from a team of 5 GPs this time last year to a team now about to hit 16 doctors. 👏 Over the year we’ve grown from one nurse to five and from three support staff to a team of 6 (and still counting!). 🌱

All this growth means we have grown our books too, with now almost 9,000 patients since our opening in August 2024. 😲 We’re so proud that we’ve helped this many people to find a GP in the day and age of it being so challenging to find up-to-date, evidenced based, modern GPs who are taking new patients. 🥳 💚

2025 was a tremendous year for us, with opening the AFM Skin Cancer Centre☀️, growing our team, acing accreditation ✅, taking our first registrars (training doctors to be GPs), hosting 6 medical students 🎓 and so much more.

We’re so thankful for the support of our friends, family and community during this journey. 🙏

✨ 2026 is looking like it’s set to be another huge year, with three new GPs starting within the next month, Dr Emma welcoming a new family member soon 👶, and something exciting starting on the horizon... 👀

PS. We’re still glad to report that Jay and Emma’s sibling banter remains strong despite the whirlwind 17 months since we opened - no family bonds have been broken in the making of AFM! 😅

📍Find us: 25 Davey Street, Hobart (AFM and AFM Skin Cancer Centre)
📆 Book online via HotDocs or through our website
🌐 https://www.australianfamilymedical.com.au/
📞 Call: 6221 6800

07/11/2025

🩺☀️ Welcome Dr Boris Tan to the team at AFM Skin Cancer Centre! 🌟

We’re beyond thrilled to share that Dr Boris Tan will be joining the team at Australian Family Medical. Starting with us next week, we’re excited that our community will soon be able to book skin cancer checks with Dr Tan. 🎉

🧴☀️We’re still taking new patients for skin checks!
We also have minimal waiting times (you might even be able to book in on the day!). Since our opening at the start of September this year we’re thrilled to have grown the team to 5 doctors doing skin cancer work, and watch this space for the next few!

👨‍⚕️ About Dr Boris:
Boris graduated from the University of Queensland. He has worked in various States and in various roles around Australia prior to moving to Tasmania in 2014 to work in General Practice. 💚

Boris has a passion for teaching, regularly tutoring medical students at the University of Tasmania, and supervising GP trainees. He received the RACGP Tasmanian Supervisor of the Year award in 2025. 🎓🥇🏆

He founded, and continues to run, Tassie Doctors, a local group aimed at bringing together and fostering communication and collegiality amongst doctors of all specialties in Tasmania. 🌐

Although he has recently decided to take a step back from generalist work to focus on Skin Cancer and proceduralist work, he remains dedicated to providing empathetic, evidence based, patient centred care. 🥳

In his spare time, Boris enjoys playing and coaching futsal, supporting his soccer ⚽team, enjoying good food with friends and family, and cuddling his 3 cats! 🐾

Welcome Dr Boris to the team at AFM! 🎉💚

Dr Boris will be open for skin check bookings on the 18th of November. 📆

In Hobart, it’s not unusual to have a 12 month wait for skin check appointments and early detection saves lives so these delays compromise on care. ⏳ 😓

Please help us reach anyone who’s in need of a skin check or waiting for an appointment for one, we want to make sure all of Hobart and surrounds knows about our service to help us diagnose and treat skin cancers early! 💚

📍Find us: 25 Davey Street, Hobart (AFM and AFM Skin Cancer Centre)
📆 Book online via HotDocs or through our website
🌐 https://www.australianfamilymedical.com.au/
📞 Call: 6221 6800

Australian Family Medical is a family owned GP clinic dedicated to providing our community with exceptional healthcare. We are located at 25 Davey St, Hobart, TAS, 7000.