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Date: 01/01/2023 Location: ACT
This online education activity involves reading articles and answering questions. Topics covered include medical records (storage and privacy considerations), giving evidence in court, and providing effective feedback to colleagues. It should take around 2 hours to complete the entire activity; which can be completed over multiple sittings.
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: ACT
This online activity explores how to facilitate an informed consent process that leads to optimal patient understanding and shared decision-making. It focuses on more challenging areas where gaps in education and knowledge have been identified; particularly documentation, determining patient capacity to consent, consent with children and mature minors, and the consultation process of shared decision-making. This highly interactive activity is available online at MDA National Members’ convenience and learners can complete it over multiple sittings. It includes opportunities to compare your responses to questions with that from other participants and from medico-legal experts. The activity is relevant for doctors at all stages of their career.
2 Educational activity hours
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: ACT
Medical records are integral to good quality patient care. They enable continuity of care, reduce errors, and improve outcomes. This interactive online activity helps doctors and practice managers to create good quality medical records and deal with medical documentation issues such as release to third parties, secure storage of personal information, retention of records, and access to records when leaving a group practice. The activity uses case scenarios and quiz questions. Take home (downloadable) information is supplied. The online activity focusses on areas identified as being problematic for doctors in recent court and medical board findings, the medical literature, feedback at education activities, and a medical indemnity insurer’s advice requests and claims and complaints experience.
1.5 Educational activity hours
1 Performance review hour
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: ACT
Prescribing Opioids is a 3-hour online education activity. The broad goals are to enhance participants' skills and confidence in:Identifying patients who are drug-dependent (or at risk of this) or drug-seeking, and ways to minimise harmEstablishing boundaries with patients and managing their expectations about opioidsUnderstanding lawful and good practice prescription of opioids.
3 Educational activity hours
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: ACT
The Challenging Emotions of Difficult Newsis a 2.5-hour, interactive, online education activity. The activity facilitates practising doctors, doctors in training and medical students to explore ideas concerning how doctors can communicate difficult news in ways that benefit patient outcomes and doctor wellbeing. The education activity aims to provide practical advice on how to:Respond most appropriately to patients’ and families’ reactions such as anger, acute distress and denialCommunicate empathically, providing support and promoting trust and realistic hopeManage personal reactions doctors may have to communicating difficult news such as feelings of failure, identification, personal grief, and fear of causing distress.
3 Educational activity hours
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
This module looks at the common causes of under-diagnosis and misdiagnosis of hereditary haemochromatosis in Australia. Participants will learn how to determine when hereditary haemochromatosis should be part of their differential diagnosis. The module also covers iron study test results and how to explain these results to patients.
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
This module provides an overview of hereditary haemochromatosis and the symptoms of iron overload. Participants will gain an understanding of how to interpret iron study results, and how to determine when genetic testing is warranted. The module also covers how to access the therapeutic venesection service offered by the Australian Red Cross Blood Service.
1 Performance review hour
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
Vascular Complications and Emergenciesis a foundation component of Anatomy For Injectors which focuses on the risks and complications related to filler injections, including the use of Hyaluronidase to reverse Hyaluronic Acid Dermal Fillers in emergency and non-emergency situations.
2 Educational activity hours
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
GPs are often the first health professional to detect a patient’s skin cancer. Early detection, diagnosis and treatment of melanoma are associated with a greater chance of survival, however, there are barriers to performing a skin check that need to be overcome. This practical interactive learning module will provide GPs with time-efficient strategies to conduct skin checks for individuals at highest risk and optimise patient health benefits for the consultation time investment. It will also help GPs maximise opportunities within the current healthcare system, create practice-based improvements to clinical protocols to optimise identification of high-risk individuals, and explore the use of additional resources to help with ongoing monitoring of skin health more efficiently.
1 Educational activity hour
Date: 01/01/2023 Location: Other
In the rapidly evolving field of skin cancer medicine, it is important for GPs to be up to date with the latest developments to ensure patients receive the best possible care. In this recorded hybrid GP Education Evening held by Melanoma Institute Australia, hear from the experts in melanoma and complex non-melanoma skin cancer as they translate our latest understanding of the disease into the clinic setting. The multidisciplinary presentations featured in this 2-hour video cover the following topics:Early detection: Essential knowledge for GPs (Dr Annika Smith - Dermatologist)Surgical management of melanoma (A/Prof Alex van Akkooi - Surgeon)Surgical management of non-melanoma skin cancer (A/Prof Sydney Ch’ng - Surgeon)New developments in systemic treatment for early melanoma (A/Prof Alex Menzies - Medical Oncologist)The session concludes with an engaging Qandamp;A discussion.
2 Educational activity hours