UQ Health Insitu - Education Program Catalogue

	A nurse's guide to insertion and removal of chest tubes and management of chest drains in adults
	FREE PROGRAM Designed for nursing staff who assist in inserting and removing chest tubes and manage chest drains in adult patients. Contains a step-by-step guide and risk assessment strategies. RCNA endorsed.

	Effective clinical communication
	This course will equip you with a new set of communication skills which underpin patient safety and improve teamwork. RACGP accredited. RCNA endorsed.

	Effective clinical teams
	This course provides practical skills which any clinician can use to improve teamwork in their clinical workplace. RACGP accredited. RCNA endorsed.

	Extended Course: Advanced Diabetes Care
	Provides an overview of a best-practice approach to GP diabetes and diabetic complication management, including strategies that maximise the opportunity for successful patient self-management and behaviour modification. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

Extended Course: Care of Ageing Australians

Australian society is aging rapidly, with a quadrupling of Australians > 85 years expected by 2050. Queensland currently has only 20 geriatricians to support this growing need, and much of the responsibility for managing the unique needs of older Australians, their carers and families - physical, psychosocial and environmental - will fall to primary care, particularly the family GP. This expansion of care need will require an understanding of the global effects of aging on function, broad knowledge of the roles of different members of the health care team and key community agencies, skills in managing a broader range of clinical conditions which present commonly in older age groups, and an understanding of the ethical and legal dimensions associated with end-of-life decision-making.

	Extended Course: Chronic Disease Management in General Practice
	Does chronic disease management comprise the majority of your case load these days? Have you identified this area as a major learning priority for yourself? If so, this may be the course for you. Includes a one-day skills workshop. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

	Extended Course: General Practice Dermatology
	Covers the common and important skin presentations in Australian general practice, and assists GPs to understand the evidence (or lack of) behind the rapidly-growing options in skin therapy available to Australian patients and communities. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

	Extended Course: Mental Health and the GP
	This course will deliver training appropriate to the Better Outcomes in Mental Health level 1 and 2 proficiencies in important areas in general practice. Skills to be developed include interpersonal therapies and motivational interviewing. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

	Extended Course: Primary Care Ophthalmology
	Develop advanced knowledge and skills in the history, assessment and management of a variety of eye conditions in primary care and practice how to apply to the clinical setting. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

	Insertion of chest tubes and management of chest drains in adults
	FREE PROGRAM A step by step guide to chest tube insertion and removal, principles, and techniques. Suitable for junior doctors and as a refresher for experienced doctors.

	Short Course: Advanced diabetic care – The GP’s increasingly complex role in diabetes and co-morbidity management
	An overview of a best-practice approach to GP diabetes management. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

	Short Course: Ageing – Common geriatric syndromes and their assessment 1 – delirium/ dementia/ falls
	Explores, assessment and management approaches the management of difficult behavioural and psychological dementia presentations, and falls prevention approaches appropriate for general practice. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

	Short Course: Ageing – Common geriatric syndromes and their assessment 2 – traps in polypharmacy / managing incontinence/ supporting the patient’s carer / family
	Provides the important assessment and management strategies required to tackle major clinical challenges in caring for older Australians. ACRRM accredited.

	Short Course: Chronic disease management – Creating effective teams in the practice – forming, norming and maintaining effective teams
	Learn the strategies that will enhance your practice teamwork and create practice systems to deliver optimal chronic disease management. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

	Short Course: Chronic disease management – Helping patients manage lifestyle, including motivational interviewing techniques and application
	This course provides a blueprint for cultivating patient self-management skills, fostering positive behavioural change and promoting empowerment in your chronic disease patients. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

	Short Course: Dermatology - Comprehensive update on the management of non-melanoma skin cancer and photoageing
	This short course, which includes a hands-on workshop (held in Brisbane, Queensland), will provide you with the contemporary knowledge you need to manage premalignant and malignant lesions in your practice. RACGP and ACCRM accredited.

	Short Course: Dermatology - Nonsurgical treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer
	Learn the different types of treatment options for skin cancer, and what you can perform in your own practice? ACRRM accredited.

	Short Course: Dermatology – Photoageing
	Australians have the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. This short course will provide you with the contemporary knowledge you need to manage photoageing in your practice.ACRRM accredited.

Short Course: Mental Health Skills for GPs

This short course is accredited by the General Practice Mental Health Standards Collaboration (GPMHSC) as a Mental Health Skills Training (MHST) program. Completion of a MHST course and a Focussed Psychological Strategies (FPS) Skills Training course enables a GP to register as a provider of FPS.

GPMHSC Mental Health Skills Training (MHST) (previously known as Level One initial training)
RACGP - QA&CPD 40 Category 1 points (Activity 739908)
ACRRM - 8 PDP points (Activity OEACR-8002-PRIM)

	Short Course: Primary eye care – Common and important eye presentations in primary care and their diagnosis and management
	Reviews the most common ophthalmic presentations, and some of the most serious, provides a framework for the practical assessment of the red eye and offers a comprehensive approach to assessing both acute and chronic loss of vision in the outpatient practice. ACRRM accredited.

	Short Course: Primary eye care – Interpretation and grading of diabetic retinopathy, including accreditation for retinal camera photography
	Teaches GPs to accurately assess diabetic fundi for non-proliferative and proliferative retinal changes, and provides the opportunity to accredit for screening with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) pilot program. The optional accreditation assessment will be conducted in person at a regional education centre. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

	Short Course: Primary eye care – Taking a comprehensive eye history and examination and equipping the practice for high quality eye care
	A comprehensive overview of ophthalmological history taking and assessment in the primary care setting, and the costs and benefits of equipping the practice for effective eye assessment. RACGP and ACRRM accredited.

	Short Course: Working optimally with patients with diabetes and chronic disease - self-management techniques, behavioural change and motivational interviewing
	As type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle related disease, maximal involvement from the patient in addressing key issues here is fundamental to optimal GP management. This short course covers the skills and approaches GPs require to help their patients and communities to succeed in lifestyle review/modification. ACRRM accredited.

	Simulation training for doctors: Insertion of chest tubes in adults
	Improve patient safety and reduce the incidence of iatrogenic injury by advancing your skills and clinical judgement of inserting chest tubes. Combines an online education program with hands-on skills training, using a mannequin.

	Simulation training manual: Chest tube insertion, removal and chest drain management for nurses
	A manual for Facilitators involved in the delivery of the simulation component of the chest tube insertion, removal and chest drain management program for nurses.

	Simulation training manuals: Chest tubes insertion program for doctors
	Manuals for organisations, trainers and procedural experts delivering the simulation training component of the chest tube insertion program for doctors.

	Using measurement to improve healthcare
	This course examines the why, what and how of information collection, and equips clinicians and managers with effective methods of analysing healthcare data to help improve the quality of their practice. RACGP accredited. RCNA endorsed.

	Workshop: Dermatology – Best practice surgical techniques for excision and biopsy in general practice
	Aworkshop preceded by a web-based step-by-step guide to best practice elipse excisions, skin biopsy, skin apposition and deep skin closure techniques, useful in all general practice situations. ACRRM accredited.

Workshop: Dermatology – Pigmented lesions – diagnosis, dermatoscopy and management

An online overview of the spectrum of pigmented lesions encountered in general practice, and the technique of dermatoscopy, followed by a 1 hour workshop in an interactive small group skills environment, supervised by a dermatologist with a special interest in the area, that involves participants in the practical interpretation of dermatoscopy images and discussions re: the selection of appropriate dermatoscope for the practice population. ACRRM accredited.

Workshop: Dermatology – Treatment options for premalignant and malignant lesions – what should I choose for which patient, and what can be performed in my practice?

A workshop preceded by two extensive web-based units on the multitude of non-surgical approaches to managing skin cancer in the general practice setting. The 2 hour interactive small group skills workshop, conducted and supervised by a dermatologist with a special interest in chemical peels, reviews the approaches learnt and applies them to the specific general practice populations in which participants work. ACRRM accredited.

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