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Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This education covers the effects of heat on health including cardiovascular disease and aims to ensure GPs can identify those at risk, medications that increase risk and appropriately advise their patients about how to manage in extreme heat and bushfires.
0.5 Performance review hour
0.5 Educational activity hour
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This education covers the core clinical knowledge and management for osteoarthritis and aims to ensure GPs can contribute towards improving outcomes of osteoarthritis, with simple and practical management and prevention strategies.
0.5 Educational activity hour
0.5 Performance review hour
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
The relief of pain and suffering is one of the most common reasons for seeking acute medical care. Sadly pain is often poorly managed in the acutely ill or injured patient with research identifying that at least a half of adults and two thirds of children who experience significantly painful conditions receivenoanalgesia when they present for acute care. Even when analgesia is provided it is often ineffective. So pervasive is the problem that researchers have coined the term “oligoanalgesia” and hundreds of studies have been published in an attempt to understand how pain management can be improved in the setting of emergency medical practice.
2 Educational activity hours
3.75 Performance review hours
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This education reviews the current concepts of aetiology, diagnosis and management of bone marrow failure syndromes. While most GPs will rarely encounter bone marrow failure, it has significant consequences for both the patient and their family. It aims to ensure GPs can recognise some of the features in a cytopenic patient that may indicate an underlying bone marrow failure syndrome, and introduce some of the principles of management for these conditions.
0.5 Performance review hour
0.5 Educational activity hour
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This education outlines an approach to cryptorchidism used by many paediatric surgeons, place the various anomalies in their embryological context, and discuss the diagnosis and management of these conditions. It aims to ensure GPs can triage referrals appropriately and avoid unnecessary investigations. It also provides an insight into paediatric surgical thinking regarding cryptorchidism, to harmonise messaging being delivered to families by medical practitioners of different specialties.
0.5 Performance review hour
0.5 Educational activity hour
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
Blood gas testing (on an arterial sample) has been used in emergency medicine as part of the assessment of patients with severe respiratory disease andamp; patients suspected to have an acid base disorder such as diabetic ketoacidosis and acute poisoning. With access to bedside blood testing (commonly on venous samples), with iStat andamp; EPOC machines, abnormal blood gas results are now commonly encountered in routine clinical practice, requiring a greater degree of expertise with the interpretation of blood gases andamp; recognition of acid base disorders. This trend will continue as bedside blood gas testing becomes more widespread in a variety of healthcare settings.
1.5 Educational activity hours
6 Performance review hours
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This education provides an overview of the current clinical practice in the genetic evaluation of MI and briefly explores other novel genetic tests in this field. It aims to ensure that GPs have a basic knowledge of the current genetic tests to be performed in male infertility and to understand the relevance of these genetic tests in the different causes of male infertility.
0.5 Educational activity hour
0.5 Performance review hour
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This education explores an approach the screening and management LTBI in immunocompromised patients and aims to ensure GPs can decide which patient require screening, how to implement preventative treatment and suggestions about when to refer to an infectious diseases specialist.
0.5 Performance review hour
0.5 Educational activity hour
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
The Assessment and managment of Obstetric Emergencies course explores many of the life threatening obstetric emergencies that may present to the emergency department and require immediate management. Topics include emergency delivery, obstetric complications in early and late pregnancy and the post natal period and resuscitation of the neonate.
3.5 Educational activity hours
3 Performance review hours
6 MOPS (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) hours
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
Mechanical ventilation is one of the central skills in critical care medicine. In the emergency patient it is most often used to improve oxygenation and ventilation in the patient with acute respiratory failure, altered conscious state and to treat acute raised intracranial pressure.
3.5 Educational activity hours
2.5 Performance review hours