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Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
This course begins with describing palliative care, care providers and patients eligible for palliative care. It focusses on the medical practitioner role including breaking the news, how the patient may feel, cultural awareness, goals of care and having the
5 Educational activity hours
6 Performance review hours
Culturally safe practice
Addressing health inequities
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/02/2025 Location: Other
This module explores common legal issues that may arise at the end of life in residential aged care and home and community care, and the provision of safe, high-quality, person- centred end of life and palliative care.
Ethical practice
Professionalism
0.25 Educational activity hour
0.75 Performance review hour
Date: 09/06/2023 Location: Other
This education offers an overview of paediatric palliative care (PPC) services, symptom burden in this cohort, principles of advance care planning, child and parent experiences, end-of-life-care and bereavement. It aims to ensure the GP can recognise when a
0.5 Performance review hour
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
This medicinal cannabis course focuses on geriatric and palliative medicine. The course briefly revisits the history of cannabis use and its legislation in Australia in 2016. Two main cannabinoids are distinguished: THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD
4.54 Educational activity hours
6 Performance review hours
Culturally safe practice
Addressing health inequities
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
This course outlines the principles of the palliative approach to a range of end of life presentations and includes non-pharmacological, pharmacological and interventional treatment options. Content includes the understanding and management of three common
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Addressing health inequities
Culturally safe practice
6 Performance review hours
4 Educational activity hours
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
This course looks at the planning of clinical treatment and dosing for conditions with medicinal cannabis. General rules of dosing with cannabis medicines are given noting that doses of cannabis medicines should be administered with consistency and regularity.
4.5 Educational activity hours
6 Performance review hours
Culturally safe practice
Addressing health inequities
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
This medicinal cannabis course focuses on cancer research for potential treatment with medical cannabis leading to a curative approach that goes beyond symptom relief. The course evaluates treatment options for breast and pancreatic cancer patients with
4 Educational activity hours
6 Performance review hours
Culturally safe practice
Addressing health inequities
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/02/2025 Location: Other
This module explores what legal issues can arise in aged care at the end of life, and what role law plays in end of life care. It also outlines how knowing these laws can help clinicians provide safe, high-quality aged care.
0.5 Educational activity hour
Ethical practice
Date: 03/07/2025 Location: Other
This podcast episode focuses on lymphoid malignancies, including leukemia and lymphoma, critical areas for general practitioners (GPs). Lymphoid malignancies constitute a significant proportion of haematological conditions seen in clinical practice. GPs play
1 Educational activity hour
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
This course discusses COPD and the possible contributing heterogenous group of associated processes. Characteristics, aetiology, pathogenesis and the burden of this disease are outlined. Each stage of the COPD-X guidelines: Case finding and confirm diagnosis,
4.5 Educational activity hours
6 Performance review hours
Culturally safe practice
Addressing health inequities
Professionalism
Ethical practice