What's on elsewhere
These events are not provided by GPpartners. Please use the links or contact details provided to register.
If you're looking for more education, check our listing of online providers. If you're looking for mental health skills training, see our Mental health page.
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7 March & 16 May |
Changing Diabetes: From Theory to Practice (series) – Series developed by Dr Chrys Michaelides to provide practical skills and information for GPs to optimise diabetes prevention and management strategies in their clinical practice. Series consists of 3 workshops - The ABC's of Managing Diabetes, Understanding, Managing and Minimising Complications and Micromanaging Diabetes for the Life of the Patient. 40 Category 1 RACGP points. Facilitated by local experts including an endocrinologist, GP facilitator, diabetes educator, podiatrist and dietitian. For more information phone Michelle Casella 07 3630 7335. |
Novo Nordisk |
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12 & 19 March |
Chronic Disease Self Management Skills Set Training - Course includes 2x1 Day Workshops AND Post Workshop Activities. Understand the theory and evidence of CCSM; Use a self-management assessment; Apply the motivational problem & goals approach; Develop a self-management care program; Utilise a range of self-management interventions and strategies; Enhance your partnerships with clients with chronic conditions. Normally $700 pp however, with Government subsidy, only $175 pp! Contact Paul 07 32845155 or paul@mbgpn.com.au |
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16 March Masonic Care Sandgate |
Prevention is Better Than Cure – As part of Wound Awareness Week activities, the Queensland Would Care Association is hosting a free information session for health professionals and the public. The treatment of wounds can last for many years and cost thousands of dollars. Yet wounds are largely preventable. Attend this session to learn from wound care experts and researchers about how to prevent wounds and hear the personal experiences of patients. Topics include: Promoting Healthy Skin in Residential Aged Care, Pressure Ulcer Prevention, Diabetic Foot Ulcer Prevention and Preventing Venous Leg Ulcer Recurrence and more; an expert panel will also feature. 9.30am – 11.30am. RSVP to info@qwca.org.au or phone 07 3348 7380. | Queensland Wound Management Association |
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17 & 24 March 15 Butterfield Street, Herston |
Opioid Substitution Treatment Prescribers training: Fixing Fractured Lives – gradually. Opioid substitution treatment is a specific treatment modality for people with problems related to dependence on opioids - either pharmaceutical opioids such as morphine and oxycodone, over-the-counter medications such as Nurofen Plus (Regd), or heroin. This free course will cover assessment of patients with possible opioid dependence, protocols for commencing patients on buprenorphine, and opioid substitution, maintenance and withdrawal. A one day clinical placement will be arranged as part of opioid substitution treatment prescriber accreditation. Ph 07 3837 5710 or 07 3328 9890. |
Queensland Health |
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18 & 19 March Building 14, ‘Rosemount’ Cartwright Street, Windsor |
Overcoming bulimia nervosa and binge eating - Interactive 2-day workshop presented by experienced eating disorder therapists. The workshop will provide an overview of bulimia nervosa and binge eating, key cognitive behavioural treatment concepts, and practical skill development in evidence-based self help strategies. Prior knowledge of cognitive behaviour therapy or bulimia nervosa and binge eating is not required. | Queensland Health, Eating Disorders Outreach Service |
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19- 20 March or 4-5 June |
Orientation Program for Nurses New to General Practice - A General Practice Queensland 2 day orientation program to support new Practice Nurses who have been working in general practice for up to 12 months. Two sessions to choose from. Enhance your clinical, management and professional knowledge and skills. |
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22 March Jindalee Hotel & Function Centre |
Business Breakfast “Work-Life Balance: Lessons from Parenting Programs Targeting Working Parents” - Explore the feasibility and efficacy of using the workplace as a setting to promote positive parenting practices. Presented by Matthew Sanders, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Director of the Parenting and Family Support Centre at the University of Queensland and founder of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. | Brisbane South Division of General Practice |
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26 March |
Management of arthritis and osteoporosis - Arthritis Queensland seminar for health professionals. Inflammatory arthritis and emerging treatments; Surgical interventions of OA hip & knee; Fast tracking patients undergoing hip replacement from research to clinical practice; Ankylosing Spondylitis diagnosis and management; Arthritis and the foot; Diagnosing osteoporosis with bone mineral densitometry; Osteoporosis, bone markers and treatment options; Vitamin D – Sun. Expert speakers from Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital. |
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27 March |
Australian Doctor Education Seminars - Mental Health - University of Queensland. Bipolar disorder, Assessing suicide risk, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Schizophrenia management, Early-stage dementia, Personality disorders, Perinatal depression. Earn 40 Category 1 points PLUS additional Category 2 points. Undertake your Mental Health Skills Training. Complete your basic CPR training. Registration details |
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30 or 31 March Joseph Alexanders Restaurant, Milton |
Lifting the Profile on COPD - Like help to identify patients with COPD in your practice? The CLEAR program (Clinical Learning, Evaluation, Action in Respiratory Disease) has been developed by Doctors to assist GPs and Practice Nurses in the early detection, diagnosis, and management of COPD. Recognised by the RACGP (40 CME points), the program involves attending one educational evening discussion workgroup and screening patients in the practice for COPD using a supplied screening tool. Speaker: Dr Robert Edwards, Thoracic and Sleep Physician, Wesley Medical Centre. 7 pm start. Ph Cheryl Birch 0449 252 788. | Medimark |
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12 April |
ENT Conundrums - Attend both Pictorial Otology: problems and outcomes and The Three ‘S’s’ in ENT – Sleep, Sinus and Sudden hearing loss to earn 40 Category 1 QA&CPD points (upon completion of pre & post activities). Free event. Speakers include Dr Bruce Black, Dr William Earnshaw, Dr Jonathan Askew, Dr David Bell-Allen and Dr Maurice Stevens. |
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May, August & November |
Mater Mothers’ Hospital GP Maternity Shared Care Alignment Program - By March 2011 GPs who want to share antenatal care with the Mater Mothers’ Hospital will have to complete our GP Shared Care Alignment Program. The program supports the increasing complexity of antenatal care provision and the need to proactively manage risks to both women and doctors in the shared care model. It aims to strengthen the link between hospital and GP and deliver the best in obstetric care to public women. Category 1 (40 CPD points). |
Mater Mothers Hospital |
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3 June |
Palliative Care Forum - The Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine invites medical practitioners to attend its palliative care forum. This session will cover evidence surrounding end stage renal failure (ESRF), factors that patients need to know to inform their decision making, variable trajectories of care in ESRF, multidisciplinary care in ESRF and managing symptoms in ESRF. |