Short Course: Chronic disease management – Helping patients manage lifestyle, including motivational interviewing techniques and application [HI4510]
Short Course: Chronic disease management – Helping patients manage lifestyle, including motivational interviewing techniques and application [HI4510]
Once a chronic disease diagnosis has been made and a treatment strategy is established, GPs increasingly rely on patients to confidently take charge of much of their day-to-day health care and carry out a collaborative management plan.
This course provides a blueprint for cultivating patient self-management skills, fostering positive behavioural change and promoting empowerment in your chronic disease patients.
Estimate to complete short course: 3.5 hours
According to the ABS National Health Survey, over 75 % of the Australian population reports having at least one chronic disease. Managing these patients is forming an increasing component of every GPs daily workload. However, the day to day management of most chronic diseases falls ultimately to the afflicted patient. This requires the patient to take on a new role and be ‘empowered’ to play their part. In, Chronic disease self-management (ES-8034-11) you’ll learn how to select appropriate patients for self-management and successfully empower them through education, effective communication, and expectation management to become optimally involved in their health care.
Chronic disease management- changing patient behaviour and motivational interviewing (ES-8035-11) provides more detail on the elements of self-management support. Topics include:
tools for collaborative planning
information and skills development
ongoing support for behavioural change
planned follow-up
the role of GP motivational interviewing during consultations in facilitating behaviour change
Evidence-based approaches to decreasing common risk factors for chronic disease in general practice (ES-8037) offers structured tools -SNAP framework and DoHA Lifescripts- to encourage behavioural changes in chronic disease patients and in those patients with risk factors for chronic disease.
For further information about the scope of the program, click on the links below.
If you have any queries relating to the clinical content of this course, please emailGillian Vey or telephone the UQ School of Medicine Discipline of General Practice on (07) 3365 5379.
When you complete the entire suite, you will be eligible to upgrade to the Extended Course for this topic, at a discounted fee. Extended Courses qualify for RACGP Category 1 points and may also be recognised as the equivalent of two units of prior learning for the Master of Medicine (General Practice) offered by The University of Queensland. For further information contact the Program Manager.
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