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Pain and GDMT: Bridging Principles and Practice

Date: 04/02/2025 Location: Other

Pain and GDMT: Bridging Principles and PracticeThis continuing professional development (CPD) programme aims to enhance the understanding and application of guidelines-directed medical therapy (GDMT) in pain management for primary care providers. It addresses the need for GPs to integrate evidence-based guidelines into daily practice to improve patient outcomes. The course focuses on the practical application of GDMT principles to manage pain through multimodal care. Participants will learn to apply these principles in various clinical scenarios, ensuring optimal care for patients with new, recurrent, and long-term pain. This includes using clinical guidelines for decision-making and implementing multimodal strategies that combine pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches. Participants will explore the evidence and clinical experience underpinning guidelines, gaining insights into the rationale behind recommended practices. The programme emphasises personalised care, considering patient-specific factors that influence the risk-benefit balance.Challenges of implementing GDMT in primary care include consistent application of guidelines, managing opioid use complexities, and maintaining a patient-centred approach. These are addressed through practical tools and case-based learning, enabling GPs to apply theoretical knowledge to real-world situations.

5 Outcome measurement hours

1 Performance review hour

2 Educational activity hours

Paediatric Basic Life Support - 03/02/2025 - 31/12/2025

Date: 03/02/2025 Location: Other

Paediatric Basic Life Support (PBLS) is the foundational resuscitation training designed to equip healthcare professionals with the cognitive and psychomotor skills required to respond effectively to paediatric cardiac and respiratory deterioration. PBLS focuses on providing timely, high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and ensuring airway management in accordance with Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) guidelines. These skills are critical in managing paediatric deteriorations, where rapid intervention can dramatically improve survival and outcomes.

1.5 Educational activity hours

0.5 Performance review hour

HLR (General practice)

2 MOPS (Emergency Medicine) hours

Better Man GP training, ANROWS study - 03/02/2025 - 19/12/2025

Date: 03/02/2025 Location: Other

People who use domestic violence have an increased risk of alcohol and substance abuse, rates of depression, suicidal thoughts, stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and increased use of health services. The National Plan to end violence against women calls for services to engage with men using violence through perpetrator interventions that hold them to account and support them to change their harmful behaviour GPs are in a unique position to help men who have used domestic violence to identify and reflect on their behaviour causing concern and to support early intervention before violence escalates. Despite this, few GPs receive specific training to support them to work with patients using domestic and family violence. We are trialling a primary care-based intervention to increase GP capacity to work with men using violence, using the I-ENGAGE model and a digital intervention called Better Man. I-ENGAGE is a model for primary health system responses to men using violence developed within the Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence. It is a stepwise approach for GPs to identify and engage with men using violence and to provide them with a range of tools to support behavioral change, from digital interventions to on-referral for specialist support. The Better Man website is an evidence-based digital tool for men using DFV which can be offered by GPs to their patients to build readiness, knowledge and skills for behaviour change.

1.5 Performance review hours

0.5 Educational activity hour

Better Man GP community of practice, ANROWS study - 03/02/2025 - 31/12/2025

Date: 03/02/2025 Location: Other

People who use domestic violence have an increased risk of alcohol and substance abuse, rates of depression, suicidal thoughts, stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and increased use of health services.(1, 2) The National Plan to end violence against women calls for services to engage with men using violence through perpetrator interventions that hold them to account and support them to change their harmful behaviour.(3) GPs are in a unique position to help men who have used domestic violence to identify and reflect on their behaviour causing concern and to support early intervention before violence escalates. Despite this, few GPs receive specific training to support them to work with patients using domestic and family violence.(4) We are trialling a primary care-based intervention to increase GP capacity to work with men using violence, using the I-ENGAGE model and a digital intervention called Better Man. I-ENGAGE is a model for primary health system responses to men using violence developed within the Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence. It is a stepwise approach for GPs to identify and engage with men using violence and to provide them with a range of tools to support behavioral change, from digital interventions to on-referral for specialist support. The Better Man website is an evidence-based digital tool for men using DFV which can be offered by GPs to their patients to build readiness, knowledge and skills for behaviour change. (5, 6)

2 Performance review hours

eLearning modules: End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC) The role of law in aged care - 01/02/2025 - 31/12/2025