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Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
In an increasingly litigious medical environment, an awareness of the medico-legal hazards associated with practice is vital for GPs. GPs are involved every day in a wide range of issues, such as patient confidentiality, consent to treatment, dealing with complaints, providing reports and the keeping of medical records. Any of these may give rise to difficulties if the GP is unaware of the principles of the correct medico-legal approach.
0.5 Performance review hour
0.5 Educational activity hour
Professionalism
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
Planning for your retirement involves consideration of many aspects of your practice and is as important as planning for a medical career. Understanding what is required from a professional and medico-legal perspective can help doctors in making the transition from ‘practice to private life’ a smooth one. Factors which need to be considered include notifying patients, notifying other professionals, identifying patients for follow up, disposal of medical records and prescription pads, along with the business requirements of winding down a practice.
1 Educational activity hour
Professionalism
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
In an increasingly litigious medical environment, an awareness of the medico-legal hazards associated with practice is vital for GPs. GPs are involved every day in a wide range of issues, such as patient confidentiality, consent to treatment, dealing with complaints, providing reports and the keeping of medical records. Any of these may give rise to difficulties if the GP is unaware of the principles of the correct medico-legal approach.
1 Educational activity hour
Professionalism
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course provides an update on consent from a medico-legal perspective.
1 Educational activity hour
Professionalism
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on the application of dermoscopy for suspicious skin lesions. Participants will acquire knowledge in using the dermatoscope as a tool to assist in the identification and management of benign non-melanocytic lesions commonly seen in the practice. This course identifies the four most common types of benign non-melanocytic skin lesions commonly seen in daily practice. It explains in detail the use of dermoscopy in diagnosing seborrheic keratosis, dermatofibroma, vascular tumours and sebaceous hyperplasia and includes numerous dermoscopic images. The course explains the factors influencing the prevalence and morphology of these benign lesions. The course concludes with three management rules to follow in order not to miss melanoma that mimics benign non-melanocytic tumours.
3.5 Educational activity hours
5.5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This webinar will give an overview of current knowledge and best practice in relation to managing difficult patient situations. (note: this webinar is for Avant members only).This webinar panel will consist of Avant experts and cover topics of:Managing a difficult patientTypes of difficult patientPatient complaints and responsesEnding the doctor patient relationship
1 Educational activity hour
Professionalism
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This webinar provides an update on the professionalism issues surrounding prescribing to friends, family and staff. There are a number of reasons why providing care to close friends, family members or colleagues can be unsafe or inappropriate, yet in some cases providing care is unavoidable. This webinar discussion will cover these issues and discuss strategies to manage them.
1 Educational activity hour
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This module aims to provide participants with information on the Good medical practice: a code of conduct for doctors in Australia and how it relates to practice.
1.5 Educational activity hours
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
Patients often come to an appointment with expectations regarding their treatment and care that they may, or may not, make clear to the general practitioner. One of the challenges faced by the general practitioners is knowing what the patient expectations are, both spoken and unspoken and ensuring that these expectations are realistic. Failure to identify and correctly manage patient expectations, be they clinical or organisational, are often the result of poor doctor patient communication and has negative consequences for both patient and doctor alike. A study by Shirley and Saunders found that unmet expectations are one of the key contributors to patient dissatisfaction and complaints.For general practitioners, the consultation is one of the best opportunities to effectively manage patient expectations. A good consultation is one where, through a process of communication and negotiation between patient and doctor, the doctor applies their best clinical skill to resolve the problems which brought the patient to seek their care, and the patient leaves feeling confident their problems have been appropriately dealt with.Most patients realise that they are not an expert in medical matters and expect to rely on the experience and expertise of the doctors they consult to provide them appropriate and realistic treatment advice for managing their problem.
1 Educational activity hour
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on identifying specific skin conditions suitable for facial peels and how to evaluate the use of skin conditioning and retinoids in aesthetic medicine. Tools to assess skin conditions are introduced including the classification of photo damage. The wound healing process and understanding of skin anatomy are featured before moving into understanding what a chemical peel is, and expected reactions and complications from chemical peels. The course concludes with a detailed description of how to perform a chemical peel.
4.5 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice