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The faculty’s ongoing partnership with Jean Hailes will carry a collection of sources and occasions for Ladies’s Well being Week.
This week’s round-up additionally contains a chance for GPs to change into a digital well being knowledgeable advisor with the Australian Digital Well being Company, and upcoming CPD-eligible occasions.
Ladies’s Well being Week partnership
The RACGP has once more teamed up with Jean Hailes for Ladies’s Well being Week (5–11 September) to rejoice girls on the whole follow and to lift consciousness of ladies’s well being points.
RACGP President Professor Karen Value has mentioned she is proud to function a girls’s well being ambassador this yr, and is reminding all girls, ladies and gender numerous people who it’s okay to place your self first and set a while apart to prioritise your well being.
Ladies’s Well being Week serves as a precious reminder of missed scheduled well being checks over the previous months, and the RACGP is reminding girls to e-book an appointment with their GP.
Extra info, sources, instruments and tricks to assist girls’s well being and wellbeing can be found on the Ladies’s Well being Week web site.
Turn out to be a digital well being knowledgeable advisor
The Australian Digital Well being Company (ADHA) is in search of functions by means of a Request for Tender course of for suitably certified and skilled people to affix their group of knowledgeable advisors who will assist the company’s program of labor.
As a digital well being knowledgeable advisor, you’ll apply on a regular basis well being business expertise to the design, growth and implementation of ADHA services. This contains specializing in the medical security, high quality and value of all services developed by the ADHA, together with the programs inside which the ADHA operates.
Purposes shut 19 September. Extra info and functions can be found on-line.
Administration of much less frequent sleep issues on the whole follow
Webinar: Tuesday 27 September, 5.30 – 7.00 pm (AEST)
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This webinar will present GPs with up-to-date info on analysis and administration of the much less frequent sleep issues: narcolepsy, stressed legs syndrome and REM sleep behaviour dysfunction.
Introduced by Dr Kerry Hancock, Chair of RACGP Particular Pursuits Respiratory Medication, together with a panel of sleep problem specialists, it is going to embody dialogue about how GPs and sleep physicians can finest work collectively to offer collaborative look after sufferers.
RACGP ‘Psychological bites’: Trauma-informed care
Webinar: Thursday 1 September 1.00 – 1.30 pm (AEST)
Eligible for 1 RACGP CPD level
Register on-line
The RACGP’s ‘Psychological bites’ lunch-time webinar collection supplies bite-sized info offered by the school’s Particular Pursuits Psychological Medication group.
GPs are conscious of psychological well being assessments, analysis, and administration, however this collection can be a chance to be taught extra about the best way to do the work – the micro-skills of engagement, forming secure and efficient therapeutic alliances and communication with sufferers.
The seventh webinar within the collection, offered by Dr Johanna Lynch, President of the Australian Society for Psychological Medication, will deal with trauma-informed care, and the significance of sense of security as a strength-based method to trauma within the basic follow setting.
The webinar will define sensible abilities GPs can use whereas treating and speaking with sufferers. There can even be a Q&A with an knowledgeable on this discipline.
Demystifying dementia webinar collection
Webinar: Wednesday 7 September, 7.00 – 8.00 pm (AEST)
Eligible for two RACGP CPD factors
Register on-line.
Introduced by Dementia Coaching Australia and RACGP Particular Pursuits, this three-part webinar collection presents a sensible and stepwise method to enhancing data, abilities, and confidence in diagnosing and managing dementia on the whole follow.
Introduced by three GP specialists in dementia, the primary webinar within the collection, ‘Reframing dementia – Making use of GP-friendly frameworks to raised perceive dementia’, describes the phases and domains method to recognising and diagnosing dementia on the whole follow.
Studying outcomes of the webinar:
- Recognise options apart from reminiscence loss in folks with dementia by making use of the Domains Framework
- Apply the Inclusion/Exclusion Standards Framework in assessing sufferers for a attainable analysis of Alzheimer’s dementia
Symbolize your GP group – nominate for the School Council elections
Nominations for the RACGP School Council elections shut at 4.00 pm (AEST) this coming Monday 29 August.
Nominating to affix a School Council is among the strongest methods GPs can affect their school, form the occupation, and make sure the views and voice of the final follow group are heard.
Extra info and to appoint can be found on the School Elections webpage.
Integrating genomics into basic follow
Webinar: Tuesday 27 September, 7.00 – 8.00 pm (AEST)
Register on-line.
Session 2: ‘Experiences with uncommon autosomal aneuploidies (RAA) NIPS outcomes’
This webinar collection on non-invasive prenatal screening past the frequent trisomies and reproductive service screening will present perception and experience for efficiently implementing non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPS) past the frequent aneuploidies into medical follow.
Pre- and post-NIPS counselling issues can be addressed utilizing case examples. Along with NIPS, the collection can even deal with the present state of reproductive service screening.
AGPT Program 2023: Purposes closing quickly
Purposes for the Australian Basic Observe Coaching (AGPT) Program shut on 30 August.
Basic follow is the right profession selection for any physician who enjoys diagnosing and treating a variety of circumstances and constructing long-term relationships with their sufferers.
With GPs on the frontline of major healthcare in the course of the current pandemic, there are extra alternatives than ever for a rewarding profession on the whole follow – notably those that select to coach in rural and distant Australia.
Extra info and functions for the 2023 AGPT Program is accessible on the RACGP web site.
Finance collection: Assist for buying a brand new residence and follow
This two-part webinar collection has been designed to equip GPs with helpful info to make knowledgeable monetary selections in relation to:
- shopping for their first residence and making the method as straightforward as attainable
- buying and financing their follow premises by means of a self-managed tremendous fund (SMSF) and the method concerned.
Webinar 1: First residence consumers info session
Tuesday 20 September, 7.00 – 8.00 pm (AEST)
Register on-line.
Webinar 2: The advantages of buying and financing your follow premises by means of an SMSF
Thursday 6 October 7.00 – 8.00 pm (AEST)
Register on-line.
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