CPD: Yes

Eating Disorder Core Skills: eLearning for GPs is comprehensive foundational eating disorder training developed specifically for GPs. The training provides GPs with the key information needed to provide best practice care for patients with eating disorders.

The training will equip GPs with the knowledge and skills needed to understand, identify and assess eating disorders, provide medical treatment, lead the multidisciplinary team, manage MBS items and provide ongoing recovery support.

This four-hour, self-paced and interactive online training includes practical real-life scenarios and activities, videos from leaders in the field and people with a lived experience of an eating disorder, up to date resources and a formal assessment.

Are you a healthcare worker working in Australia who cares for victims of sexual violence? If so, this course is for you.

Monash University’s Department of Forensic Medicine and consortia partner, the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM), have developed a three-unit Course for health practitioners in Recognising and Responding to Sexual Violence which commenced in 2021 and will continue in 2022.

This training program is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services (DSS) as an initiative under the Fourth Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2010–2022. The training will equip healthcare professionals to recognise and respond appropriately to adult disclosures of sexual violence.

Monash University is seeking expressions of interest from registered and practicing health practitioners providing primary health care services to undertake the RACGP and other medical college CPD-accredited training pilot at no cost.

You can enrol in single or multiple units.

Consideration will be given to rural and remote practitioners and those whose practice catchment includes patients at higher risk of experiencing sexual violence. This may include:

• patients with intellectual disabilities
• patients from culturally and linguistically diverse communities
• Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples
• patients who identify as LGBTQIA+
• older adults
• adolescents
• sex workers

Each unit is delivered online over a six-week period and includes live sessions with clinicians with expertise in responding to sexual violence. The course has been designed to be interactive.

Unit 1 – Sexual Violence: Drivers and Impacts

Unit 1 will provide an evidence-based overview of sexual violence prevalence, drivers, short- and long-term impacts on individuals and the community and an overview of justice responses.

Learning Outcomes:

• Determine indicators of sexual violence and assess patient risk.
• Determine short and long-term health impacts of sexual violence and incorporate into patient management
• Integrate impacts of vicarious trauma and unconscious bias into self-care and patient care management.
• Integrate discussion on the role of police, the justice system and confidentiality into patient reporting options.

Doctor Intakes commencing:  28 March / 23 May / 20 June
Nurse Intakes commencing:  15 March / 09 May / 04 July

Unit 2 – Responding to Sexual Violence in Adults

Unit 2 focuses on the patient consultation, medical care and documentation and referrals.

Learning Outcomes:

• Prioritise and integrate the complex elements of sexual violence disclosures into patient care
• Construct a trauma-informed patient management plan for patients who disclose sexual violence
• Identify the key ethical, medical, and forensic issues that need to be addressed in patients disclosing sexual violence

Doctor Intakes commencing:  30 May / 25 July / 15 August
Nurse Intakes commencing:  16 May / 11 July / 29 August

Unit 3 – Responding to Sexual Violence in At-Risk Patients

Unit 3 covers immediate and long-term care for individuals who are known to be at a higher risk of experiencing sexual violence.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify forms of sexual violence experienced by at-risk patients and address barriers to disclosure.
• Apply and integrate understanding of intersectionality and response frameworks into healthcare for patients from at-risk cohorts who disclose sexual violence.
• Formulate patient-focused healthcare for at-risk patients who have experienced sexual violence.
• Evaluate patient needs and apply understanding of psycho-social support services to provide referrals that address a patient’s complex and diverse needs and pathway for recovery.

Doctor Intakes commencing: 01 August  / 19 September / 10 October
Nurse Intakes commencing:  18 July / 05 September / 17 October

The curriculum is patient-centred and recognises and addresses the risk of vicarious trauma for health practitioners in caring for victim/survivors of sexual violence.

The program is designed to be practical and the practice-focused units will include a Sexual Assault Response Resource developed by specialist forensic medical practitioners. This guideline will support workplace operationalisation of course learning.

Who should attend?

Each Unit is designed for medical practitioners, nurses, midwives, and other health professionals who care for patients who may have experienced sexual violence.

The End-of-Life Essentials Project offers free peer-reviewed online education modules on health care at the end of life in acute hospitals for nurses, doctors and allied health professionals.

The content of the modules has been developed from the ACSQHC National End-of-life Consensus Statement. A range of implementation tools are also available to assist managers and clinicians to implement a unified approach to strategies and processes which will inform end-of-life care.

Accessing EOLE Education

Mental Health Professionals’ Network (MHPN) invites practitioners in your PHN catchment to attend the professional development webinar, ‘Collaborating with the workplace to enable good work for your patient/client’ featuring leading experts in a case-based panel discussion focused on engaging with workplaces to support a client’s recovery and participation in work that improves their health and wellbeing.

This webinar is free for practitioners. Webinar participants can interact with panellists and each other throughout the session via a chat box and by submitting questions directly to the panel.

Members of your team may find this webinar beneficial, and we ask for your help to promote it. To that end, we’ve attached a Comms Package including copy and imagery for use in e-newsletters, on your website or via social media. The webinar details are also listed below for your reference.

We would greatly appreciate any support you can provide by sharing information. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to reach out to us by replying to this email.Collaborating with the workplace to enable good work for your patient/client

Date: Wednesday 2nd November 2022, 7:15pm – 8:30pm (AEDT)
Cost: This activity is free

Register Here

This webinar is produced by the Mental Health Professionals’ Network in partnership with Comcare.

Program Outline

This blended learning workshop aims to increase health professionals’ skill and confidence in taking a detailed suicide history and developing a collaborative management plan to increase the safety of people planning suicide.

The workshop provides practical tools for health professionals managing the full spectrum of suicide risk presentations including the acute suicidal crisis, care after a suicide attempt and assisting families experiencing suicide bereavement.

This program combines online interactive sessions, case discussion and self-directed learning modules.

• Module 1: Self-directed learning
  Duration: 1.5 hours
  Modality: Online module
• Module 2: Advanced Training in Suicide Prevention
  Duration: 3 hours
  Modality: Online interactive Zoom session
• Module 3: Case Discussion Group
  Duration: 1 hour and 45 minutes
  Modality: Online interactive Zoom session

Accreditation

• 6 hours CPD*
• 40 Accredited CPD Activity Points (RACGP)*
• ACRRM 4 Performance Review

*All modules must be completed to gain complete accreditation of 6 hours CPD or 40 Accredited CPD Activity Points (RACGP)

Suitable for

Allied Health, GPs, Multi-disciplinary, Mental Health Nurse, Psychologists, Social Workers, Youth Workers, Other mental health professionals

Topics Covered

• Suicide prevalence, stigma and culture
• Undertake a suicide risk assessment effectively
• Develop a collaborative safety plan
• Implement a team approach to treatment planning
• Provide effective management following a suicide attempt
• Self-care and bereavement

Learning Objectives

• Undertake a suicide risk assessment effectively.
• Develop a collaborative safety plan.
• Implement a team approach to treatment planning.
• Provide effective management following a suicide attempt.

With a focus on self-harm and suicide in adolescence, this program will assist clinicians to manage youth in distress, self-harm and suicidality.

The program has been designed to build on the current level of skills of participants and to further develop confidence in undertaking risk assessment and safety planning for youth in distress.

Module 1 will need to be completed prior to the commencement of module 2. CPD certificates will be given after completion of all 4 modules in their entirety.

Suitable for mental health clinicians working with young people providing mental health support in a 1:1 setting eg. psychological care or counselling. This training assumes a baseline of knowledge and skills in providing mental health support and if you do not have this, this training will not be suitable for you.

Topic 1: The suicidal crisis

Topic 2: Assessing and managing risk

Topic 3: Self-harm

Topic 4: After the attempt

Topic 5: Self-care

Learning objectives

Advanced Life Support (ALS) with Early Management of Trauma

• Advanced Life Support biannual certification to ANZCOR / ILCOR / ARC guidelines
• This activity is accredited by the RACGP for 40 CPD Accredited Activity Points (ALSO and BLS)
• RACGP Grants – JCCA ER CPD, Rural and Procedural Training Grants in Emergency, Anaesthetic, Obstetric and Surgery

This course is designed for Doctors, Registered Nurses, Registered Paramedics. Specifically: General Practitioners, Training Registrars, Rural and Remote Health Practitioners, Hospital and Pre-Hospital based Nursing and Medical staff, Private Paramedics, Defence Force Medical, Nursing and Advanced Medics.

A predominantly small group scenario-based program designed to allow trainees to master the clinical interventions required to deliver adult ALS as recommended by the Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation (ANZCOR)

Topics covered:

• Adult and Paediatric Life Support
• Advanced airway management
• Early trauma management of the c-spine
• Manual and automatic deibrillation
• Cardioversion and External cardiac pacing
• Intraosseous insertion
• ANZCOR cardiac arrest algorithms and drug therapy
• Recognition and Management of the Deteriorating Patient
• Rhythm Interpretation
• Reversable Causes
• Scenario based assessment
• Crisis Resource Management
• Pregnancy considerations
• Team leading and communication
• Debriefing discussions
• Post resuscitation care
• Arrest leadership and communication skills

Enquiries to:

• Barry McCarthy
  Director Bledisloe Medical
  0429 700 626
  barry@bledisloemedical.com.au

Delivered by experienced and qualified senior Critical Care and Emergency Medicine professionals, currently working in the industry to an advanced level.

Icon Cancer Centre proudly presents our fourth annual GP CPD Weekend on Saturday 3 December and Sunday 4 December 2022 at the Sofitel Noosa Pacific Resort. 

With a focus on highly relevant and practical learning, our dynamic two-day program will provide GPs with practical skills that can be readily applied to real-world practice. Topics span across screening and early diagnosis, new treatments and advances, end-of-life care and the future direction of cancer care and haematology.

This year we are proud to offer an exclusive skin cancer workshop with Specialist Plastic Surgeon, Dr Dan Kennedy. This two-part workshop will cover clinical assessment, biopsy techniques and includes a hands-on surgical session to extend your operative skills. Limited spots available!

Event Details

Date & Time

Saturday 3 December 2022 | 10.30am – 7.00pm
Sunday 4 December 2022 | 9.00am – 1.30pm

Venue
Sofitel Noosa Pacific Resort
14-16 Hastings Street
Noosa Heads QLD 4567

Packages
Full Delegate – $525
Day Delegate – $249
*Spaces are limited. All participants must be registered before the weekend.

Registration

Please use the link below to register and pay via our secure gateway. Spaces are limited – please register early.

https://qrco.de/IconCPDWeekend2022