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6 October 2022

Climate Action for Health - webinar

Adult Asthma - what's new webinar

The role of GPs in caring for palliative care patients

General practice frontline staff: Adapting to evolving workplace

1. Navigate the mounting pressure from patients at the front desk
2. Deal with the ever increasing demands
3. Adapt to the changing nature of general practice
4. Provide effective feedback to and influence positive change with practice managers and owners

Spirometry in general practice
 

Practice Nurses Education Series (Lunch and Learn)

Practice Nurses Education Series (Lunch and Learn)

AOD Learning Platforms for health professionals

Case conferencing in primary care for residential aged care facilities

Boosting the Local Care Workforce Program

Registered and unregistered National Disability Insurance Agency providers and other industry stakeholders can attend a full day roundtable event by Boosting the Local Care Workforce, in collaboration with the NDIS.

You will:

• Hear from the NDIA about the demand and opportunities for support services in the Gippsland region

• Develop an understanding of service delivery innovation to meet the needs of your local community.

National Disability Insurance Agency providers and industry stakeholders

Bairnsdale International, 355 Main St, Bairnsdale
Tuesday
11 October 2022
9.30am-3pm.

Register here

Male Fertility and Preconception Health

This Men’s Health in Primary Care webinar series webinar will discuss male fertility and preconception health and the role of primary care professionals. 

In the webinar, GP Dr Glenn Duns and Endocrinologist and Andrologist, Prof Robert McLachlan, will provide an overview of the key aspects of male fertility and preconception. The panel will also discuss a case study, highlighting approaches in primary care settings and referral pathways for additional support when needed.
 

Voluntary Assisted Dying

This introductory webinar is mental health professionals to find out more about Voluntary Assisted Dying and its relevance to the practices of psychologists, social workers and other clinicians working in mental health.

The session will include an overview of VAD Legislation - who can access VAD, what is the required assessment process for people seeking VAD, what are the legal responsibilities of health professionals?

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How to engage with patients who use domestic violence

This Safer Families workshop is for GPs and other primary care providers to enhance confidence in responding safely and sensitively to disclosures of using domestic violence

 A GP-led panel of experts will discuss how to consider the whole family when working with people who use violence and how to access appropriate referral pathways. GPs attain 3 CPD points for attending this session and 2 CPD points for the pre-learning module. Contact Safer Families to find out more about how to acquire 40 CPD points in this triennium or a similar activity applicable to the new triennium in 2023. 

Alcohol brief interventions in the breast screening setting

Coinciding with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this presentation from Turning Point will consider how population-based breast screening programs are uniquely positioned to provide timely health information and behaviour change strategies to improve women’s alcohol literacy and reduce consumption. 
 

Standard Refresher Mental Health First Aid

The four-hour refresher course in Mental Health First Aid from Latrobe Regional Hospital allows people who have previously completed a Standard MHFA course to refresh their knowledge and skills.
 
The course also offers Accredited MHFAiders an opportunity to extend their accreditation for a further three years.

 Training provided free of charge for East Gippsland and Wellington Shire participants to aid in Bushfire Recovery.
 

Youth Refresher Mental Health First Aid

The four-hour refresher course allow people who have previously completed a Youth Mental Health First Aid course from Latrobe Regional Hospital to refresh their knowledge and skills.
 
The course also offers Accredited MHFAiders an opportunity to extend their accreditation for a further three years.
 
Training provided free of charge for East Gippsland and Wellington Shire participants to aid in Bushfire Recovery.
 

End of Life Law

The End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC) is a free national training program for health professionals.

The module is designed for medical practitioners, medical students, nurses, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners and health workers and allied and other health professionals. It aims to help clinicians:

• Understand legal considerations that can arise in the context of caring for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and families at the end of life.
• Recognise how health professionals can provide Culturally Safe and Culturally Responsive end of life care. 

Eating Disorders
Core Skills

National Eating Disorders Collaboration presents Eating Disorder Core Skills: eLearning for GPs, an accredited professional development and training course that provides GPs with the key information needed to provide best practice care for patients with eating disorders.

• The training is free and is accredited by the RACGP as a CPD Accredited Activity (40 points).
• The course provides foundational training for GPs to equip them to be able to understand, identify and assess eating disorders, provide medical treatment, lead the multidisciplinary team, manage MBS items and provide ongoing recovery support.

Ear Wax Removal - Microsuction

This accredited course from the Benchmarque Group  will provide participants with a range of knowledge and skills to perform ear wax removal by microsuctioning.

This course is designed to provide management strategies, recognise complications and risks associated with microsuction, and identify referral pathways for specialist care in relation to a range of conditions associated with microsuction, based on detailed pre-requisite knowledge of the anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology of the auditory system.
 

Webinar: Flashes, floating and blurring

This interactive webinar by a specialist ophthalmologist from the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital is for general practitioners to improve their knowledge and skills in the assessment of patients with visual flashes, floaters, blurring and loss.

The  60-minute interactive lecture style presentation is for for GPs and GP registrars.

Dr Penelope Allen, an ophthalmologist who works at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, will present her insights on how to assess and manage patients with visual flashes, floaters, blurring and loss. 

Osteoporosis management for general practitioners

Immuniser Training - Managing Immunisation Emergencies

Join Steph, a Registered Nurse and Immuniser, for a refresher on Immunisation Emergencies, in particular anaphylaxis.
 
Various dates and times are available to join the training, or contact facilitators for your team’s personal education session including CPR.
 

 

Anaphylaxis refresher

Join Steph, a Registered Nurse from Gippsland, for a refresher on anaphylaxis.
 
Renew your knowledge, refine assessment skills and refresh your confidence and competence in recognising and managing anaphylaxis in a GP setting. 

 

Paediatric palliative care education

This paediatric palliative care education is for all health professionals in hospital and community services that provide care for seriously ill children and their families.
 
It is a blended learning approach where participants are required to complete eLearn modules prior to face-to-face interactive workshop.

DOWNLOAD FLYER
 

Annual Clinical Vaccinology Update

The annual MVEC Clinical Vaccinology Update (CVU) is an opportunity for healthcare professionals to come together to hear from leading experts on the latest developments and trends in immunisation.
 
The face-to-face event will provide professional development delivered via keynote sessions and interactive breakouts, as well as the opportunity to connect and network with peers.
 

ThinkGP - Mental health skills training for GPs

If you are an Australian GP, you are able to access the additional mental health MBS item numbers (2715 and 2717) by completing the Mental Health Skills Training (Modular Pathway), which requires both a Mental Health Skills Training Core Module and one Clinical Enhancement Module to be completed.

To ensure your activity is reported to Medicare, please check that your Medicare Provider Number is up to date in your college database. See further instructions for RACGP members
 

Safer Families - domestic and family violence workshop

Pivoting to the perpetrator: How to engage with patients who engage in domestic and family violence is the topic for this training from SaferFamilies.
 
The training is for general practitioners and other primary care providers to enhance knowledge and confidence to safely engage with people who engage in domestic and family violence.
 
Part 1 is the introduction level and Part 2 the advanced level. CPD points available.
 

Family Violence AOD Community of Practice

The Victorian Government has provided support to VAADA to administer a fully-funded, centralised workforce development program for the AOD sector until December 2022. 

This training and professional development program - Elevate! - is available to all AOD workforce currently employed within funded AOD services across Victoria. 

For details go to eLearn: MARAM Brief and Intermediate eLearn course for practitioners working with victim survivors.

Mental Health Victoria - training and development

Mental Health Victoria has partnered with Fundamental Training and Development to offer a series of courses that build leadership skills with a special focus on mentally healthy practice.

You can foster your leadership skills with ‘Leading others through change’, build on your existing leadership practice with ‘Resilience building’ and ‘Courageous conversations’ and prepare to lead change in your organisation with ‘ChangeAbility’.
 

Mental Health Victoria - professional development and accredited training
 

Mental Health Victoria is presenting a new set of accredited training and courses that allow accrual of Continual Professional Development (CPD) points.

In partnership with Suicide Programs, MHV is now offering ‘Accidental Counsellor’, a program that provides participants with an understanding of the counselling process and strategies for dealing with people in crisis.
 

Health Complaints Commission - training seminars

The Health Complaints Commissioner is still providing two online modules, the General Code of Conduct and Health Records.

You can access the list of available seminars here. All training and education seminars are free to attend and are currently delivered in an online environment.
 

How do you know it's an eating disorder?

 Listen to How do you know it's an eating disorder? - Butterfly Foundation to learn more about what is – or isn’t – an eating disorder.

Eating Disorder Core Skills training

The Eating Disorder Core Skills training has been developed specifically for mental health professionals. It is evidence-based, nationally recognised and free to access here.
 
This training builds on National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC) Core Skills series, the first of which was accredited Eating Disorder Core Skills: eLearning for GPs, developed for GPs and accessible here.

Search the interactive national database of credentialed mental health professionals and dietitians with expertise in treating eating disorders here.

Butterfly Foundation professional development

Register now for one of the Butterfly Foundation term 2 small group, interactive, professional development virtual workshops. 

Sessions include: Let’s talk body confident children and teens, body Image and boys for educators, body esteem educator training and understanding eating disorders in young people.

Murra Mullangari: Introduction to cultural safety and cultural humility

This course is appropriate for practising nurses and midwives from all career stages, clinical and non-clinical roles and backgrounds who may or may not have built an understanding of Cultural Safety and/or Cultural Humility.

The cost of the program is $495 (inc GST) which allows access to approximately eight hours of self-paced online learning and reflection activities.

New free Microcredential training

Women’s Health Victoria and 1800 My Options have announced a new free Microcredential on their learning platform.

To access WHV's existing suite of online training, including flexible online courses and a suite of Gender Equity and Workplace Equity Microcredentials, visit the website

Primary health and palliative care

Caresearch, a palliative care knowledge network, has developed a hub that provides evidence based guidance including triggers for consideration and recommendations for action, for health professionals working within primary care.

Visit Primary Health Care - Settings of Care - Health Professionals (caresearch.com.au) and learn about Pathways and Frameworks, roles in palliative care and multidisciplinary teams.
 

Pathways to Safety Training Program promotion in Gippsland

This domestic and family violence training is available for primary care providers in Gippsland. 

The 'Pathways to Safety' training program strengthens the capacity of primary care providers to effectively recognise, respond and refer domestic and family violence. 

• Self-directed e-learning nodules
• Online workshops and virtual classrooms
• RACGP Webinar series

Improving clinical psychology in RACFs

This series of workshops has been developed to upskill psychologists working in regional and rural Victoria to work therapeutically with aged care residents.
 
Each workshop will comprise a one-hour webinar followed by a one-hour peer supervision discussion.

 

Digital Health training

New My Health Record eLearning Modules

The Digital Health Agency has launched two new eLearning modules for healthcare providers:

• Using My Health Record in Nursing (2021)
• Electronic Prescriptions in Community Pharmacy

These CPD accredited activities are practical, tailored and self-paced.

Promoting participation in National Immunisation Program

ONLINE AND FACE-TO-FACE

For:

ONLINE COURSE:

Promoting Participation in the National Immunisation Program

Further information contact: 
courses@benchmarquegroup.com.au

Culturally responsive practice for older people

This online course with the Migrant and Refugee Health Partnership outlines appropriate clinical practice for working with aged care recipients from CALD backgrounds, targeting clinicians and health practitioners working in health and aged care settings.
 
Participation in this training may attract CPD for participants. Read details about the material in the flyer outline.

A systematic approach to investigating symptoms of lung cancer

In collaboration with Cancer Australia and clinical experts in lung cancer, Lung Foundation Australia has developed a free, accredited eLearning course for primary care health professionals based on Investigating Symptoms of Lung Cancer: a guide for all health professionals

A systematic approach to investigating symptoms of lung cancer is accredited for 40 RACGP CPD points.

Foundations of chronic disease program

The Benchmarque Group has recently launched its new free online-only Foundations of Chronic Disease program.

Delivered completely online, the program is aimed at a range of health professionals working within Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health or have Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients, and is estimated to take less than 10 hours to complete.

 

Topics include Nutrition, Foot Health and Chronic Disease care planning.

Completing the Foundations of Chronic Disease Program will enable students to register directly into these programs once they are available.

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Rural Workforce Agency of Victoria - scholarship

Focussed psychological strategies skills training for general practitioners.

RACGP and the Rural Workforce Agency of Victoria (RWAV) are offering 100 scholarships to Victorian GPs in Modified Monash Model (MMM) 3-7 and GPs working in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation in (MMM) 1-2 + (MMM) 3-7  locations to complete Focussed Psychological Strategies Skills Training (FPS ST).

GPs can apply for this fully subsidised training by submitting an expression of interest on the RACGP website.
 
For further queries and information contact RACGP 1800 472 247

• ONLINE - Cancer Council - 60min module
  Talking to patients about health and weight 
   
• PODCAST - Dementia in Practice
  Dementia in Practice: Now we’re talking!
   
• eLEARNING for GPs - National Eating Disorder Collaboration
  Eating Disorder Core Skills
   
• COURSE - ACRRM
  Pre-Hospital Emergency Care
  Transgender Primary Care
   
• ONLINE - Asthma Australia
  Online Spirometry Training
   
• ONLINE - Centre for Excellence in Rural Sexual Health
  CERSH: Facets of Rural Sexual Health - 12 Modules 
   
• Webinars and other online learning through the Victorian-Tasmanian PHN Alliance can be accessed here.

See Gippsland PHN Events calendar for further details and registration for all events