This education utilises the NSW STIPU STI Testing Tool to guide GPs in the management of STIs. The education will guide the participant through the Who? Why? Which? and How? of STI testing as well as providing tips on sensitively initiating a discussion with patients about their sexual history. Resources are provided to assist with contact tracing.
Posted Mon, 07/02/2011 - 8:48am by Adam Fyfe
This education discusses the use of opioids in the management of chronic pain. Pain management is discussed in terms of holistic management, with other treatment modalities explored. The WHO pain ladder is placed in context and the drugs described in the ladder discussed in detail.
Posted Tue, 08/05/2012 - 9:58am by Adam Fyfe
This education discusses the management of hepatitis B & C in Aboriginal patients. The prevalence, diagnosis and natural history are explored. The cultural aspects impacting on detection and management are outlined and options for overcoming barriers to care are detailed.
Posted Tue, 01/05/2012 - 10:22am by Adam Fyfe
This education discusses the use of benzodiazepines in the elderly. The background to the use of the drug in Australia is discussed, as well as the indications for use and the side effects and potential consequences of longer term use. Alternative options are presented and schedules for drug withdrawal discussed.
Posted Thu, 26/04/2012 - 8:05am by Adam Fyfe
This case discusses the diagnostic dilemma in a patient with intellectual disability and limited mobility. The clinical scenario offers various options to explain the patient’s deterioration and increased number of seizures. The participant is encouraged to consider all the possible explanations and is assisted in reaching a diagnosis and management decision.
Posted Wed, 11/04/2012 - 3:16pm by Adam Fyfe
This video education will discuss the current classification of seizure disorders. Assessment and management of seizure disorders will be discussed and recommendations made for assisting the patient and their family to manage the impacts of the condition of their lives. Access to a range of resources will be facilitated.
Posted Wed, 28/03/2012 - 11:49am by Adam Fyfe
This activity looks at issues related to sexuality in our patients who have had cancer. Asking a patient with cancer about their sexual health and discussing how this can be managed is so important to minimise the impact of the disease on a person's total well being.
Posted Wed, 21/03/2012 - 12:16pm by Adam Fyfe
This education will focus on the assessment of absolute cardiovascular risk. Use of various risk calculators will be discussed. The management of patients at risk of cardiovascular disease as a result of hypertension will be a focus of the education. Those with a BP reading not at target will be considered, and the development of a management plan for them will be described.
Posted Wed, 15/02/2012 - 11:21am by Adam Fyfe
This education will discuss sexual health. Topics to be covered include the aspects required to take a comprehensive sexual health history, the requirements to include on a pre-and post testing counselling session and the need for contact tracing. Vignettes demonstrate how to initiate consultations which GPs and patients may find awkward, and also discusses the testing required for the comprehensive management of sexually transmissible infections.
Posted Tue, 31/01/2012 - 9:52am by Adam Fyfe
ALM
This Active Learning Module has been developed to support your work in preventing major chronic diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. It will focus on lifestyle risk factors known to be linked to these major chronic diseases: smoking, hazardous alcohol consumption, poor nutrition, lack of physical activity and overweight and obesity.
Posted Wed, 30/11/2011 - 9:54am by Adam Fyfe
The educational activity discusses the role of general practitioners in contact tracing for STIs. The opportunities to initiate a discussion with patients are identified, advice provided in relation to the STIs for which contact tracing is recommended and methods to do this described. Options to assist patients with tracing sexual contacts are also described.
Posted Wed, 16/11/2011 - 12:59pm by Adam Fyfe
Join neurologist Dr Peter Brimage as he leads a discussion on how to manage some different presentations of migraine in our practices.
Posted Wed, 09/11/2011 - 2:05pm by Adam Fyfe
GP NSW and ThinkGP bring you Dr Tim Senior, a GP from Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation in South West Sydney, and Medical Advisor in the RACGP National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. Dr Senior will discuss the reasons it is important for practices to facilitate the identification of Aboriginal patients and will provide advice as to how this may be done.
Posted Mon, 17/10/2011 - 10:43am by Adam Fyfe
GP NSW and ThinkGP bring you Dr Penny Abbott a GP at the Aboriginal Medical Service Western Sydney and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Sydney. Dr Abbott will discuss the item numbers and their role in patient management.
Posted Mon, 17/10/2011 - 10:43am by Adam Fyfe
Leading Psychiatrist, Dr Bill Lyndon, discusses what is relevant in the long term management of depression. What are the important approaches to the long term management of this common condition?
Posted Fri, 14/10/2011 - 2:36pm by Adam Fyfe
