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Course in Ear and Hearing Health
Including Unit Code 10630NAT

The Course in Ear and Hearing Health includes a four hour face-to-face workshop, in-class activities assessed by a qualified assessor and workplace observed practice.

The four hour face-to-face workshop involves anatomy refresher, principles of wax irrigation and practical activities including condition recognition, ear health assessment, monocular otoscopy, digital video otoscopy, and irrigation techniques for wax removal.

Workplace observed practice is mandatory requirement for this course, workplace practice must be observed by a peer or suitably qualified clinician. For more information please visit the course page.

Before booking a workshop: Please note, students need to complete the Foundations of Ear Health Program before being able to book this workshop. The program is delivered completely online, and consists of blended learning including knowledge information, articles, learning videos and self reflection activities.

Duration:
3 hrs

Program Outline:
NOTE: All times listed are AEDT/AEST

GPs often play a central role in the provision of healthcare to communities in the immediate, acute phase of emergency situations, and on an ongoing basis for the long-term recovery of individuals and their broader community.

Emergency Service Workers are one of the high-risk groups for trauma exposure and are more vulnerable to developing mental health problems. These mental health conditions have significant impact on their employment, family/relationships, and wellbeing.

This workshop has been designed with a focus on GPs, to diagnose patients with acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and other comorbidities. Evidence based guidelines will be used as the foundation to appropriately diagnose and identify treatment pathways including recommended referrals, trauma focused psychological therapy and psychological first aid to help support their management of emergency service workers. The training may also be relevant to other health professionals.

This training aims to increase participants’ skills and confidence to:

1. Understand the relationship between traumatic events and the development of mental health conditions
2. Identify evidence-based treatment and referral pathways for a patient impacted by trauma
3. Recommend evidence-based resources, including e-Mental Health, for family/kinship groups impacted by trauma

FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM

The Grant Program for Emergency Services Workers trauma Care, including PTSD support services, is funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Home Affairs.

https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/davidlittleproud/Pages/mental-health-grants-support-emergency-services-workers.aspx

Accreditation:

• 6 CPD Activity points (RACGP)
• MH CPD activity (GPMHSC)
• 3 Performance Review PDP units (ACRRM)

Suitable for:
GP Registrars, GPs

Topics Covered:

1. Understanding the context of Emergency Service Workers
2. Diagnosing PTSD
3. Your role
4. Self-care for practitioners

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognise responses to trauma in emergency service workers, their families and kinship groups
2. Identify validated screening and assessment tools for common mental health conditions related to trauma
3. Apply evidence-based treatment/management plan for a patient impacted by trauma
4. Identify a range of appropriate referral pathways and collaborative care options
5. Identify and use self-care strategies and resources to manage their own mental health and wellbeing

Urinary Tract Infection and Drug Resistance Forum
E. coli is changing. So, should we change how we treat it?

Co presented by:

• Dr Trent Yarwood, SICN Co-chair and QSAMSP
• Dr Naomi Runnegar, SICN Co-chair
• Dr Fabian Jaramillo, General Practitioner
• Dr Gaurav Puri, Endocrinologist, Cairns Hospital
• Dr Patrick Harris, Pathology Queensland
• Dr Minyon Avent, QSAMSP
• Trish Hurst, CNC RBWH
• Belinda Henderson, CNC PAH

Target audience: Senior and Junior Medical Officers, General Practitioners, Nurse and Pharmacists.

Speaker:
Dr Sheikh Naveed
FRANZCP, Consultant Psychiatrist
Eden Private Hospital, Cooroy

Program:
6.30pm – Registration and welcome
6.45pm – Entree
7.00pm – Simulated patient consultation
7.30pm – Main
7.45pm – Educational discussion
8.15pm – Q&A
8.30pm – Dessert
8.45pm – Meeting close

This instalment of the Rural Health Webinar Series will explore will explore the assessment and emergency management of patients presenting after head trauma to the rural clinic or ED setting. Through a series of cases, GP participants will learn about the latest evidence-based guidelines for both adult and paediatric head trauma.

This webinar will be facilitated by Dr Rhiannon Browne, an Emergency Physician practising at Campbelltown Hospital in South-West Sydney and a Conjoint Lecturer at Western Sydney University. Dr Browne represents NSW on ACEM’s Council of Advocacy, Practice and Partnerships and is a member of the ACEM Standards and Endorsement Committee. They are also a co-founder of NoWEM, the Network of Women in Emergency Medicine, as well as an Advanced Paediatric Life Support instructor.

Course Summary
This facilitated online training course is designed for nurses who have high case-loads of patients living with, or t risk of, chronic hepatitis B.

Synopsis 
The course will provide nurses with advanced practical skills and knowledge in hepatitis B nursing. The course includes presentations and case discussions that introduce the epidemiology and natural history of hepatitis B, vaccination, testing, fibrosis assessment, advanced liver disease, stigma and discrimination and the cultural context of hepatitis B nursing.

Event Description 
For more information, click here to download the flyer

Target Audience
Nurses and Midwives practicing in QLD

Course Components
The course is conducted in 4 parts:

1. Pre-course work (pre-course survey, online learning modules, lived experience videos)
2. Two Live Zoom Sessions
   1. Session 1: Friday 4 June, 9:00am – 12:00pm (AEST)
   2. Session 2: Saturday 12 June, 9:00am- 1:00pm (AEST)
3. Homework (video learning module)
4. Post-course work (video learning module, post-course survey)

Learning Outcomes

1. Outline the epidemiology of hepatitis B and the risk factors for hepatitis B transmission.
2. Describe the natural history of hepatitis B and demonstrate confidence in interpreting hepatitis B serology to identify opportunities for screening, vaccination and linkage to care.
3. Explain the nurses’ role in providing culturally appropriate care, free from stigma and discrimination, to people from priority populations.
4. Explain the nurses’ role in identifying, diagnosing, assessing, monitoring and treating patients with chronic hepatitis B and advanced liver disease.
5. Describe the innovative strategies and models of care that exist to deliver care for patients with hepatitis B and explore local opportunities to incorporate hepatitis B into the nurses’ role.

Why you should attend:

• Enhance your skills in the management of osteoporosis
• Develop your ability to prioritise chronic diseases
• Gain practice insights from a local osteoporosis expert

All while:

• Earning 40 points in the RACGP CPD 2020-2022 triennium)
• Developing strategies to improve practice efficiency and patient outcomes

Topic covered:

• Negotiating priorities in chronic disease management
• Who is at risk of fracture?
• Critical consultation: identifying osteoporosis
• Critical consultation: initiating treatment
• Long-term management and follow up
• Critical consultation: evaluating long-term management.

Course Summary 
This webinar will provide GPs and primary care nurses with introductory knowledge regarding the care and management of hepatitis B.

Synopsis 
Primary care practitioners play a crucial role in ensuring improved health outcomes for people with hepatitis B, through testing, diagnosis, informed clinical management and support of individuals and families.

Event Description
This webinar is being delivered in partnership with the RACGP

In 2018, over 227,000 people were living with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in Australia; of these, 72,000 were undiagnosed and 177,000 were not engaged in regular care. The most common cause of hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide is CHB. Primary care practitioners play a critical role in the diagnosis and management of CHB in the community, and in reducing preventable deaths from liver cancer.

Presenter
Presented by Dr Nicole Allard, a GP and HBV s100 Prescriber, this webinar will provide participants with crucial knowledge and understanding of hepatitis B and the impact of COVID-19 on patients living with hepatitis B.

Target Audience
General practitioners

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify priority populations for hepatitis B testing in Australia
2. Interpret hepatitis B serology results.
3. Describe the role of primary care in the testing, diagnosis and management of patients with hepatitis B in the community.

Accreditation
This educational activity has been awarded 1 HBV CPD points under the HBV CPD

I-ASIST is a 2 say workshop where participants learn the skills of suicide first aid and how to carry out a suicide intervention with someone thinking of suicide to keep them safe.

Course Summary
ASHM is pleased to partner with QLD Positive People and the Sexual Health Society of QLD (SHSQ) to deliver this two-part ‘Women Living with HIV’.

Synopsis 
Facilitated by SHSQ President, Dr Judith Dean, sessions will include lived experience perspectives and presentations from experts in the field.

Event Description

• Part One: Tuesday 08 June 2021, 7:00pm – 8:30pm (AEST)
• Part Two: Tuesday 15 June 2021, 7:00pm – 8:30pm (AEST)

Note: Attendees can attend one or both sessions

Accreditation
This educational activity has been approved for 2 CPD points per session.

Part One
Jacqualine McLellan, Heather McNamee and Fiona Bisshop will lead discussions around contraception, menopause, and ASHM’s upcoming guidance on women living with HIV who are considering breastfeeding.

Part Two
Part Two will be presented by Diane Rowling and Angela Smith and will focus on HPV related cancers, cervical screening and Cardiovascular disease risk.

Target Audience
Queensland HIV s100 Prescribers and medical practitioners interested in HIV care.

Clinical Features of Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome – Prof Huyen Tran
Reports of the rare but dangerous AZ Covid vaccine side-effect, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) have got many Australians worried, understandably. In this talk, haematologist, Professor Huyen Tran will bring clinicians up to speed on the important features of this side-effect – where and when these clots occur, the symptoms they produce, when and how these patients should be investigated and how these patients are best managed. Get the answers to the most frequent questions your patients are asking.

Acute Lower Back Pain – Guidelines vs Real World – Joyce McSwan
LBP is one of the leading causes of diminished quality of life and disability worldwide.  In primary healthcare, it is one of the most common presenting ailments. Keeping up to date with the guideline changes and proposed models of care will provide currency of practice for best outcomes.  Early management of acute low back pain will limit its progression to chronicity.  This session will provide an update of the current evidence based practice in the management of acute low back pain.

Implementing the New Depression Management Guidelines – Prof Malcolm Hopwood
Depression is one of the commonest conditions managed in primary care. New guidelines have implications for the management of this very common illness. In this talk, one of Australia’s leading psychiatrists, Professor Malcolm Hopwood updates clinicians on what the latest changes are and how they might change the practice for doctors managing depression. In addition, he explains the evidence behind these recommended modifications to practice and why it is important clinicians know about them.

Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers – What’s New in Radiotherapy – Dr Chelsie O’Connor
Radiotherapy can be a safe and effective alternative to surgery, and is particularly useful for the elderly or where surgery might have a negative impact on function or cosmesis. It may be used as definitive treatment for low-risk cancers, as an adjuvant treatment for high-risk disease or alone for inoperable cases. This lecture will explain the types of RT, pros and cons in comparison to surgery, which kinds of cancer are suitable and provide some guidelines for GPs on when to refer patients for consideration of radiotherapy.

RACGP: 4 CPD activity points applied for
ACRRM: 2 hours under the Educational Activities Category applied for
Pharmacists: Currently seeking accreditation

This is an information workshop or parents and carers who have children with toileting troubles with poos and wees.

The workshops will help parents understand what is normal, when they should worry, how they can help their child and where to go for more advice and support.

2021 workshop date:

• Wednesday 24th March 2021
• Wednesday 9th June 2021
• Wednesday 1st September 2021
• Wednesday 24th November 2021

Part 1: Poos – 9.30am – 11.00am
Especially useful for parents with children aged two years and over with chronic constipation/soiling/poo withholding/toilet refusal.

Also useful for parents with bedwetting and daytime bladder issues such as wetting and urgency.

Part 2: Wees – 11.30am – 1.00pm
Useful for parents with children aged seven years and over who bed wet and children five years and over who wet during the day or have urgency, frequency or withholding.

To book or find out more contact Child Access Health on (07) 5319 4824.

NB For parents only.

Participant numbers:
workshop will be limited to 12 due to social distancing requirements.

Presenters:
Mental Health Education Team, Consumer and Carer Consultant

What:
Knowledge development workshops for QLd Health non-Mental Health Staff, new graduates, students and partners of Mental Health Services.

Cost:
Free

Each workshop consists of 2 sessions:

• Module 1: 9.00am – 11.30am
  • Mental Health Awareness and Conditions
    Provides an overview of common mental health conditions and illnesses including signs, symptoms and treatment options and an introduction to recovery.
• Module 2: 12.15pm – 3.00pm
  • Mental Health Specialised Services and Mental Health Act 2016
    Introduces participant to Mental Health Specialised Services (MHSS) systems including teams, models of care and referral processes. It also provides an overview of the Mental Health Act 2016.

This training is designed in two modules that can be attended together or individually.

If you wish to only attend Module 1 or Moule 2, please register for the workshop on Eventbrite and then email sc-mhet@health.qld.gov.au

Duration:
3-hrs

Program Outline:
NOTE: All times listed are AEDT/AEST

The Talking About Suicide in General Practice workshop aims to increase GPs skill and confidence in:

• recognising presentations where suicide risk is high
• undertaking a detailed risk assessment
• management planning using a collaborative, team based approach

Accreditation:

• 6 CPD Activity points (RACGP)
• 3 Educational Activity PRPD (ACRRM)

Prerequisites:
Pre-disposing activity

Suitable for:
GP Registrars, GPs

Topics Covered:

• Topic 1 The Suicidal Crisis
• Topic 2 Acute Management
• Topic 3 After the Attempt
• Topic 4 Bereaved by Suicide

Learning Objectives:
By the completion of this program participants will be able to:

• undertake a suicide risk assessment effectively
• develop a collaborative safety plan
• provide effective management following a suicide attempt

Duration:
3 hrs

Program Outline:
NOTE: All times listed are AEDT/AEST

GPs often play a central role in the provision of healthcare to communities in the immediate, acute phase of emergency situations, and on an ongoing basis for the long-term recovery of individuals and their broader community.

Emergency Service Workers are one of the high-risk groups for trauma exposure and are more vulnerable to developing mental health problems. These mental health conditions have significant impact on their employment, family/relationships, and wellbeing.

This workshop has been designed with a focus on GPs, to diagnose patients with acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and other comorbidities. Evidence based guidelines will be used as the foundation to appropriately diagnose and identify treatment pathways including recommended referrals, trauma focused psychological therapy and psychological first aid to help support their management of emergency service workers. The training may also be relevant to other health professionals.

This training aims to increase participants’ skills and confidence to:

1. Understand the relationship between traumatic events and the development of mental health conditions
2. Identify evidence-based treatment and referral pathways for a patient impacted by trauma
3. Recommend evidence-based resources, including e-Mental Health, for family/kinship groups impacted by trauma

FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM

The Grant Program for Emergency Services Workers trauma Care, including PTSD support services, is funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Home Affairs.

https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/davidlittleproud/Pages/mental-health-grants-support-emergency-services-workers.aspx

Accreditation:

• 6 CPD Activity points (RACGP)
• MH CPD activity (GPMHSC)
• 3 Performance Review PDP units (ACRRM)

Suitable for:
GP Registrars, GPs

Topics Covered:

1. Understanding the context of Emergency Service Workers
2. Diagnosing PTSD
3. Your role
4. Self-care for practitioners

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognise responses to trauma in emergency service workers, their families and kinship groups
2. Identify validated screening and assessment tools for common mental health conditions related to trauma
3. Apply evidence-based treatment/management plan for a patient impacted by trauma
4. Identify a range of appropriate referral pathways and collaborative care options
5. Identify and use self-care strategies and resources to manage their own mental health and wellbeing

Topics:

• Spotlight of Lung Cancer – Early Referral and Diagnosis of Patients with Lung Cancer
  Presented by: Dr Johanne Tan – Bundaberg Hospital
• Respiratory Referrals: Essential Information for Triaging
  Presented by: Ms Fay Barker – Bundaberg Hospital

RSVP:
Vicki Kelly, Senior GP Representative
Email: vicki.kelly@astrazeneca.com
Phone: 0428 335 344

You are cordially invited to the third networking night hosted by the Fraser Coast Local Medical Association.

Special guest visit by AMA Queensland President Dr Chris Perry.

Learning Objectives

• To understand the role of Medicinal Cannabis in treating Chronic Pain
• Understand the history of Medicinal Cannabis and how it works on the Endocannabinoid system
• Learn evidence based indications for the appropriate prescription of Australian Cannabinoid therapies
• Learn the difference between THC vs CBD
• Understand the symptoms, side effects, and drug interactions associated with Medical Cannabis
• Access – Learn how to access Medicinal Cannabis via TGA pathway in Australia and the SASB process requirements

Course Summary 
This webinar will provide GPs and primary care nurses with introductory knowledge regarding the care and management of hepatitis B.

Synopsis 
Primary care practitioners play a crucial role in ensuring improved health outcomes for people with hepatitis B, through testing, diagnosis, informed clinical management and support of individuals and families.

Event Description
This webinar is being delivered in partnership with the RACGP

In 2018, over 227,000 people were living with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in Australia; of these, 72,000 were undiagnosed and 177,000 were not engaged in regular care. The most common cause of hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide is CHB. Primary care practitioners play a critical role in the diagnosis and management of CHB in the community, and in reducing preventable deaths from liver cancer.

Presenter
Presented by Dr Nicole Allard, a GP and HBV s100 Prescriber, this webinar will provide participants with crucial knowledge and understanding of hepatitis B and the impact of COVID-19 on patients living with hepatitis B.

Target Audience
General practitioners

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify priority populations for hepatitis B testing in Australia.
2. Interpret hepatitis B serology results.
3. Describe the role of primary care in the testing, diagnosis and management of patients with hepatitis B in the community.

Accreditation
This educational activity has been awarded 1 HBV CPD points under the HBV CPD

Free GP training via Sunshine Coast Eating Disorders Access Trial (SCEDAT).

This activity has CPD points for RACGP / ACRRM.

Presenters:

• Dr Nga Tran – Psychiatrist, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
• Dr Kiera Buchanan – Founder and Director CFIH, Clinical Psychologist and Health Psychologist

Key Learnings:

• Outline and demonstrate the screening and detection of an eating disorder in a suspected or at-risk patient.
• Discuss strategies to effectively engage and collaborate with a patient with an eating disorder.
• Review the assessment and process involved in medically managing a patient with an eating disorder.
• Summarise the escalation process: when, where and how to refer your patient to hospital.
• Identify and troubleshoot the pragmatic barriers and community myths, misconceptions and biases about eating disorders experienced in managing patients with an eating disorder.

Deadly Sex is organised by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sexual health workers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers through an Organising Committee Structure. Topics in 2021 will include updates on current and emerging issues in blood-borne viruses and STIs with a focus on hep C, HIV and syphilis, harm reduction, contact tracing, men’s and women’s health, healthy relationships, sexuality and gender diversity, and resource development.

The eligibility criteria for attendance at the Deadly Sex Congress 2021 are as follows.

Preference will be given to: 

• An Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health Worker/ Blood Borne Viruses or Indigenous Sexual Health/ Blood Borne Viruses Worker whose primary role is to deliver sexual health services and programs.
• A Generalist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker who can demonstrate that they perform sexual health/ Blood Borne Viruses duties as part of their generalist work.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community worker, project, health promotion and/ or support officer in the following sectors (NGO):
• HIV/ AIDS
• Viral Hepatitis
• Injecting Drug Use
• Sexual and Reproductive Health
• An Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander person currently working in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health sector with imminent plans to move into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sexual health/ Blood Borne Viruses service delivery i.e. within 12 months.

PLEASE NOTE: Eligibility is at the discretion of the organising committee with the Chairperson holding a deliberate and casting vote. Deadly Sex is organised by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sexual health workers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers through an Organising Committee Structure.

Palliative care medications in renal dysfunction

The session will be presented by Lorna Chess-Williams, Senior Pharmacist at the Robina Hospital, Gold Coast.

Objectives:

• Identify symptom control needs and prescribing anxiety in renal dysfunction
• Consider the polypharmacy and medical complexity of person with renal dysfunction

This webinar will have a case based focus to illustrate a variety of general endocrinology presentations in primary care, their assessment, management and referral pathways . There will be time for Q & A.

Presenters Dr Brett Sillars:

• Clinical Director, Endocrinology, Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
• Dr Edwin Kruys: General Practice Liaison Officer, Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service

Learning outcomes:

• Review the interpretation and management of abnormal calcium, PTH, vitamin D tests, and when to refer (HealthPathways: Hypercalcaemia);
• Review the interpretation of other common endocrinology pathology tests in general practice;
• Discuss the management of hyperthyroidism, thyroid enlargement and thyroid nodules (HealthPathways: Hyperthyroidism, Thyroid nodules);
• Describe the management of adrenal insufficiency and adrenal nodules (HealthPathways: Non-acute endocrinology assessment).

This activity has RACGP and ACRRM points pending

Motivational Interviewing Workshop for Primary Health Professionals and Community Workers

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a person–centred, goal–oriented approach to helping people achieve change through exploring and resolving ambivalence. Motivational interviewing was developed in the 1980’s by Drs William Miller and Stephen Rollnick to help addiction treatment clinicians achieve better retention and engagement in changing problematic behaviours. Since then, MI has been disseminated across a broad spectrum of clinical, educational, corrections, and sporting settings, as well as in the area of organisational change. MI has fast become a cornerstone skill for anyone performing in a helping role, no matter the discipline or industry.

The trainer, Mikel Gellatly, has been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since 2017,and has provided a variety of national and international MI training events in addiction, corrections, medical and hospital settings, and for defence force psychologists in Singapore. Mikel’s practice experience has focused on the understanding and treatment of addiction behaviours, as well as designing and delivering residential alcohol and drug treatment services since 2010. Mikel is the clinical services manager for Lives Lived Well, Residential Services Central QLD.

Foundational Skills and Building Skills Workshops (1–day Workshop)

• Agenda Setting and Review with Group
• Overview of MI: Getting on the same page –Exploring change and motivation
• Introduction to MI
  • What is (and is not
  • How it was developed
  • Research supporting MI
• MI Spirit, skills and strategies
• Importance, values and meaning
• The importance of understanding and interacting with in–session language
  • Discrepancy
  • Ambivalence
  • Sustain talk
  • Change talk
  • Discord
• Deepening reflective listening skills
• Working with change and sustain talk
• Rolling with discord
• Weaving it together in your work setting
• Ongoing skill building plan

Become a Mental Health First Aider to support friends, family members, colleagues and others.

About 1 in 5 Australian adults experience a common mental illness each year. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training will teach you practical skills to support someone with a mental health problem. Make a real difference to people in your community.

Standard MHFA training benefits:

• Knowledge
  Improves knowledge of mental illnesses, treatments and first aid actions.
• Confidence
  Increases confidence in providing first aid.
• De-stigmatising
  Decreases stigmatising attitudes.
• Support
  Increases the support provided to others.

Learn practical first aid skills:

• Recognise common mental health problems
• Provide initial help using practical, evidence-based Action Plan
• Seek appropriate professional help
• Respond in a crisis situation

This a 12-hour educational course, not a therapy or group support.

How do sign up?

Please register by telephone 07 4897 0200 by Friday 11th June 2021.

Winter can be a dangerous time for people living with a lung condition. As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout takes centre stage this year, Lung Foundation is urging all Australians to take steps to protect themselves against influenza and other vaccine preventable conditions. An important first step is a conversation with their primary health care team. 

In this 1-hour webinar, Professor Kristine Macartney, Director of the Australian Nation Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) and senior editor of the Australian Immunisation Handbook will present on the importance of updating vaccinations, particularly in patients with chronic lung disease and First Nations people. Consequences of under-vaccination, the impact of acute and chronic cycles of infection and recent changes to the National Immunisation Program will also be discussed.

A Q&A session, moderated by Lung Foundation Australia’s Respiratory Care Nurse, Ms. Amanda Curran, RN will address pre-submitted and live audience questions.

This webinar is supported by an independent medical education grant from GlaxoSmithKline.

Speakers:

• Professor Kristine Macartney
  MBBS, BMedSci, MD, FRACP
  Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS)
  

  Professor Kristine Macartney is the Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS), a paediatric infectious disease consultant at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Her research interests include all aspects of vaccine preventable disease, particularly policy development, vaccine safety and prevention of viral diseases.

  Kristine acts regularly as an expert consultant to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and is a member of peak advisory committees in Australia. She also leads the Australian national AusVaxSafety and Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) networks, and is the founding chair of the Australian Regional Immunisation Alliance (ARIA), which is working with countries and partners in the IndoPacific region.

• Ms. Amanda Curran
  RN
  Respiratory Care Nurse, Lung Foundation Australia

  The session will be moderated by Lung Foundation Australia’s skilled Respiratory Care Nurse, Ms. Amanda Curran. An expert in the field with over 34 years’ experience as a Registered Nurse, Amanda provides guidance for people living with COPD or bronchiectasis on all aspects of their condition according to clinical management guidelines, connecting them with the information, education, resources and support they need to live well with their lung condition.

Duration:
3 hrs

Program Outline:
NOTE: All times listed are AEDT/AEST

GPs often play a central role in the provision of healthcare to communities in the immediate, acute phase of emergency situations, and on an ongoing basis for the long-term recovery of individuals and their broader community.

Emergency Service Workers are one of the high-risk groups for trauma exposure and are more vulnerable to developing mental health problems. These mental health conditions have significant impact on their employment, family/relationships, and wellbeing.

This workshop has been designed with a focus on GPs, to diagnose patients with acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and other comorbidities. Evidence based guidelines will be used as the foundation to appropriately diagnose and identify treatment pathways including recommended referrals, trauma focused psychological therapy and psychological first aid to help support their management of emergency service workers. The training may also be relevant to other health professionals.

This training aims to increase participants’ skills and confidence to:

1. Understand the relationship between traumatic events and the development of mental health conditions
2. Identify evidence-based treatment and referral pathways for a patient impacted by trauma
3. Recommend evidence-based resources, including e-Mental Health, for family/kinship groups impacted by trauma

FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM

The Grant Program for Emergency Services Workers trauma Care, including PTSD support services, is funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Home Affairs.

https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/davidlittleproud/Pages/mental-health-grants-support-emergency-services-workers.aspx

Accreditation:

• 6 CPD Activity points (RACGP)
• MH CPD activity (GPMHSC)
• 3 Performance Review PDP units (ACRRM)

Suitable for:
GP Registrars, GPs

Topics Covered:

1. Understanding the context of Emergency Service Workers
2. Diagnosing PTSD
3. Your role
4. Self-care for practitioners

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognise responses to trauma in emergency service workers, their families and kinship groups
2. Identify validated screening and assessment tools for common mental health conditions related to trauma
3. Apply evidence-based treatment/management plan for a patient impacted by trauma
4. Identify a range of appropriate referral pathways and collaborative care options
5. Identify and use self-care strategies and resources to manage their own mental health and wellbeing

Back to the future

What’s new in the management of back pain, spinal surgery, inflammatory arthritis, crystal arthropathies.

Presenters

• Dr Stephen Byrne – Neurosurgery
• Dr Matthew Terrill – Rheumatology

Learn skills and gain confidence to assist friends, family and co-workers experiencing mental health problems.

Mental health first aid is the help provided to a person who is developing a mental health problem, experiencing a worsening of a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis. The first aid is given until the appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves.

Course information:

• 12-hour Standard Mental Health First Aid (SMHFA) course
• Course topics cover: developing mental health problems, depression, anxiety problems, psychosis and substance use problems, as well as suicide and other mental health crisis.
• Participants must purchase a copy of the Standard MHFA manual at own cost
• Participants are eligible to become an accredited Mental Health First Aider.

Participants will learn the signs and symptoms of mental health problems, where and how to get help and what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective.

Standby will work with local Livingstone organisations and community groups to build their capacity to participate in a planned (community) approach to support those bereaved or impacted by suicide.

Register:
Email: Helen.Munn@cqrdgp.com.au
Phone: 0404 747 940

Webinar Overview

Working with Traumatic Grief: Understanding and managing the conflicting processes of trauma and grief.

Many traumatic experiences involve loss and grief. Whenever loss occurs in circumstances that are tragic, sudden, horrible or involve great suffering there is a traumatic dimension to the grief. Such loss needs to be distinguished from the pain of loss that may be natural, expected and yet still sad and painful. This webinar will describe the bodily, emotional and mental processes involved in the natural trauma and grief responses.

Much has been learned about trauma and grief in the last half century although they may occur together and we may think that any grief is traumatic, it is helpful to recognise they are quite distinct responses to different threats. Grief involves the loss of someone who is part of ourselves and their absence in the real world causes pain and motivates a process of accepting and adapting to it. Trauma involves an experience of threat to self or other and activates physical and psychological responses to cope that may not subside but keep reactivating the experience causing post-traumatic stress.

These two adaptive responses – grief and trauma have distinct physiological emotional and psychological patterns and require distinct techniques to facilitate recovery from them. In traumatic grief they alternate and often conflict or cut across each other preventing recovery.

The workshop will describe each of these processes so they can be recognised and discuss the strategies and techniques required to help them resolve. Examples and illustrations will be used to clarify the material.

Learning Outcomes

Following this webinar participants will:

• The defining patterns and responses of traumatic stress
• The defining patterns and responses of grief
• How these two responses interact in traumatic stress
• Broad strategic principles for disentangling them and facilitating recovery.

Presenter Biography

Rob Gordon, Ph.D is a Clinical Psychologist and has worked with survivors of traumatic events, disasters, work related critical incidents for 40 years. He has been a consultant to the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, Bushfire Recovery Victoria, The Victorian Department of Education and Training and the Emergency Services Department of Australian Red Cross for emergencies and traumatic events. He has worked with communities affected by disasters throughout Australia and New Zealand and consults to a range of agencies supporting people affected by trauma and grief; he provides training to many government and non-government agencies and has published articles and book chapters on trauma and grief. He is the President of the Australian Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies and conducts a psychotherapy practice in Box Hill, Victoria.

What to expect during the live stream?

In the one-hour live stream launch, NEDC National Director Dr Beth Shelton will introduce Eating Disorder Core Skills: eLearning for GPs, with GP Dr Jennifer Conway and people with lived experience of eating disorders. NEDC Clinical Resource Project Coordinator Emily Hardman will demonstrate how the interactive eLearning modules will step GPs through the key information needed to improve treatment outcomes through early detection, intervention, and best practice care.

There will be a live Q&A session after the presentation which will provide you with the opportunity to ask questions.

Eating Disorder Core Skills: eLearning for GPs 

The Eating Disorder Core Skills: eLearning for GPs has been developed specifically for general practitioners and is evidence-based, nationally recognised and freely accessible. The training has been developed by NEDC and steps general practitioners through the key information needed to provide best practice care for their patients with eating disorders. The four-hour, five-module, self-paced training is interactive, engaging and will take GPs through practical real-life scenarios. GPs will be provided with resources and tools to support implementing learnings in practice.

Eating Disorder Core Skills: eLearning for GPs is accredited by the RACGP as a CPD Accredited Activity (40 points) and the GPMHSC as Mental Health CPD, and free to NEDC members.

For more information on the course, click here.

Event Title:
Alleviating Allergic Rhinitis: Live Patient Consultation with Prof Pete Smith

Event Outline:
To mark World Allergy Week, Prof. Pete Smith and Dr Kerry Hancock will host the first of its kind virtual locum. Watch as Prof Smith provides a fly-on-the-wall insight to his management of a real patient with persistent moderate-to-severe allergic rhinitis, with the opportunity for live Q&A.

Contact Details:
education@insidepractice.com.au

• Prof Carol Pololock (Australia)
  Chairperson
  Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney Kolling Institute, Royal North Shore  Hospital, Australia
• Prof Mustafa Arici (Turkey)
  Speaker
  Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey
• Prof Louise Moist (Canada)
  Speaker
  Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

• Prof Carol Pololock (Australia)
  Chairperson
  Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney Kolling Institute, Royal North Shore  Hospital, Australia
• Prof Mustafa Arici (Turkey)
  Speaker
  Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey
• Prof Louise Moist (Canada)
  Speaker
  Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

Join us for a special COVID-19 vaccine update for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse GPs.
At this webinar, we’ll provide you with the latest information on the vaccine rollout. GPs and all health professionals are welcome.

Your panel:

• Dr Lucas de Toca 
  First Assistant Secretary, COVID-19 Primary Care Response
  Department of Health
• Dr Nitin Bagul
  Acting Assistant Secretary, Therapeutic Goods Administration
  Department of Health
• Professor Christine Phillips OAM
  CALD COVID-19 Health Advisory Group
  Department of Health

My health for life (MH4L) is a free behaviour change program designed for people at high risk of developing a chronic disease and shows participants that making small lifestyle changes can have major health benefits.

The program works in partnership with general practice and is a practical extension of advice given by GPs and nurses to their patients.

Participants can complete the program through face-to-face, video conferencing or telephone coaching.

Note: Participants can attend a VC session with a facilitator anywhere in Queensland.

13 RISK (13 74 75) will assist participants in selecting a program mode, timeslot and location that suits them.

Patients can be referred using the practice software MH4L referral template or calling 13 RISK.

Upcoming dates:

• Saturday 19 June
  8.30am – 10.30am
  Buderim
• Saturday 19 June
  10.45am – 12.45am
  Buderim
• Monday 5 July
  5.00pm – 7.00pm
  Gladstone
• Wednesday 7 July
  10.00am – 12.00pm
  Emerald
• Monday 12 July
  10.00am – 12.00pm
  Caloundra
• Friday 16 July
  10.00am – 12.00pm
  Marchoochydore
• Friday 16 July
  12.30pm – 2.30pm
  Noosaville
• Friday 23 July
  11.00am – 1.00pm
  Gympie
• Friday 20 August
  12.30pm – 2.30pm
  Noosaville

For more information, visit the website: www.myhealthforlife.com.au

Your local PHN can work with your practice to identify patients who are eligible for referral into the program. If you would like more information on how to get involved, please contact your area manager.

My health for life (MH4L) is a free behaviour change program designed for people at high risk of developing a chronic disease and shows participants that making small lifestyle changes can have major health benefits.

The program works in partnership with general practice and is a practical extension of advice given by GPs and nurses to their patients.

Participants can complete the program through face-to-face, video conferencing or telephone coaching.

Note: Participants can attend a VC session with a facilitator anywhere in Queensland.

13 RISK (13 74 75) will assist participants in selecting a program mode, timeslot and location that suits them.

Patients can be referred using the practice software MH4L referral template or calling 13 RISK.

Upcoming dates:

• Saturday 19 June
  8.30am – 10.30am
  Buderim
• Saturday 19 June
  10.45am – 12.45am
  Buderim
• Monday 5 July
  5.00pm – 7.00pm
  Gladstone
• Wednesday 7 July
  10.00am – 12.00pm
  Emerald
• Monday 12 July
  10.00am – 12.00pm
  Caloundra
• Friday 16 July
  10.00am – 12.00pm
  Marchoochydore
• Friday 16 July
  12.30pm – 2.30pm
  Noosaville
• Friday 23 July
  11.00am – 1.00pm
  Gympie
• Friday 20 August
  12.30pm – 2.30pm
  Noosaville

For more information, visit the website: www.myhealthforlife.com.au

Your local PHN can work with your practice to identify patients who are eligible for referral into the program. If you would like more information on how to get involved, please contact your area manager.