Mount Beauty-based rural GP proceduralist, Dr Mark Zagorski, has been rewarded for his significant service to the Rural Doctors Association of Victoria, and for his work to improve and modernise first aid and trauma management including in the ski patrol services of Australia's ski resorts.

He received the prestigious award at the joint Rural Doctors Association of Australia and Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine annual conference, held in Sydney over the weekend.

"Throughout his 27 years as a rural doctor at Mt Beauty in Victoria’s alpine region, Mark has inspired generations of medical students and registrars with his compassion, commitment and motivation to his patients and the local community," RDAA president, Dr Nola Maxfield, said.

"Mark has made major personal investments in local clinical infrastructure which have had a significant and lasting benefit to the community."

According to the RDAA, these include the construction of a purpose-built medical centre, the purchase of a state-of-the-art digital x-ray system for Mt Beauty, and fundraising efforts driven by Dr Zagorski which have raised many thousands of dollars for the purchase of emergency equipment for Falls Creek.

"Mark is also an enthusiastic promulgator of a technique for reducing dislocated shoulders without the need to sedate the patient, a method which he learned from another doctor many years ago," Dr Maxfield said.

"This technique has become known as 'the Zagorski method'."

Described as a "quintessential rural GP", Dr Zagorski said he was driven by a desire to use his skills well.

"Someone once said to me, 'don't try and do extraordinary things, try to do ordinary things extraordinarily well' and I guess that's what I try to do," he said.

"That includes providing quality local medical care in my community of Mt Beauty and through my branch practice at Falls Creek.