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CAT 2 or ALM
This education will discuss the purpose and function of the personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR), the quality use of data and the utilisation of e-tools to facilitate data cleansing and ensuring the quality of data in general practice. Change management, using the RACGP Quality Framework, is demonstrated.
Posted Tue, 27/09/2011 - 9:30am 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 - 10:54am 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 - 1:59pm 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 - 3:05pm 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 - 11:43am 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 - 11:43am 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 - 3:36pm by Adam Fyfe
This education discusses the reasons why it is important for general practices to have systems in place to identify their patients who are Aboriginal. The education discusses the specific Medicare item numbers applicable to Aboriginal patients, as well as other specific initiatives. The barriers to care are discussed and methods to overcome these are explored. The role of these initiatives and item numbers in patient management is discussed.
Posted Tue, 27/09/2011 - 10:13am by Adam Fyfe
This activity reviews the various types of chronic leg ulcers, their causes and predisposing factors. The activity encompasses the various types of dressings available and provides a guide to the choice of the appropriate dressing.
Posted Mon, 22/08/2011 - 11:45am by Adam Fyfe
Follow a discussion with Dr Chris Levi, who is Director of Acute Stroke Services at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. We will look at how we can safely and effectively decide on which therapy to reduce stroke in our patients who have AF and discuss new medications that are becoming available.
Posted Tue, 16/08/2011 - 12:20pm by Adam Fyfe
ALM
This ALM will guide GPs through the epidemiology of skin cancers in Australia, skin cancer prevention, balanced approach to UV and vitamin D awareness and the diagnosis and management of melanoma and the most common non-melanoma skin cancers.
Posted Tue, 09/08/2011 - 3:13pm by Adam Fyfe
Follow a discussion with Dr Chris Levi, who is Director of Acute Stroke Services at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. We discuss the use of the CHADS 2 tool to assess the real risk of stroke in your patients with AF and ensure the early and safe use of anti-coagulant medication.
Posted Wed, 03/08/2011 - 10:08am by Adam Fyfe
This education discusses the common causes of vision loss, the presenting features, diagnostic assessments and management. Indications for referral and the contents of referral letters to the optometrist/ophthalmologist are detailed.
Posted Tue, 26/07/2011 - 2:49pm by Adam Fyfe
Dr Deborah Bateson, the Medical Director of Family Planning NSW (FPNSW) talks about the contraceptive consult with our young female patients.
Posted Mon, 11/07/2011 - 10:34am by Adam Fyfe
This activity covers the assessment, diagnosis and management of issues related to sexuality in patients who have had cancer, and in their partners. The education will address the features related to the consequences of both the disease and its management. Options for solutions to minimise the impact of the disease on patients will be discussed as will methods of addressing the concerns raised by patients in relation to their sexuality following cancer.
Posted Tue, 05/07/2011 - 9:29am by Adam Fyfe
