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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
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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
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6 Performance review hours
4 Educational activity hours
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
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Addressing health inequities
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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
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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
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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
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Addressing health inequities
Professionalism
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Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
The aim of this course is to apply a chronic disease management framework for medical practitioners managing patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia. Learning includes incorporating a teams-based approach to ongoing patient management. The
6 Performance review hours
4 Educational activity hours
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Professionalism
Ethical practice
Addressing health inequities
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
As we age, the overall risk of cancer increases. This course outlines how to identify common cancers that may occur in the elderly and the role of the general practitioner in their management. The course commences with statistics including cancer types as we
6 Performance review hours
4 Educational activity hours
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Date: 06/02/2024 Location: Other
This module provides an overview of the cause and key symptoms of Machado Joseph Disease (MJD). It is designed as a learning resource for healthcare professionals delivering primary and allied health services for all MJD patients, in particular Aboriginal and
3 Educational activity hours