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Event date and time: Wednesday, 1 May 2024 – Thursday, 2 May 2024
Event venue: Venue TBA, in Sydney near the airport.
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
A blend of hands-on skills-based workshops, and updates from experts in the field.
Sessions include:
Cost: $600
Contact Email: courses@benchmarquegroup.com.au
Event date and time: Wednesday, 1 May 2024, from 12.30 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
Have you had a data breach? Privacy issue? Been hacked? Or do you know a practice who has?
Did you know 22% of all notifiable data breaches come from healthcare? With emailing becoming commonplace and Artificial Intelligence being adopted at such a fast pace the official guidelines can’t keep up, this webinar will help you feel safer to move your practice into this next digital era.
Cost: Free
Event date and time: Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6.00 pm – 8.30 pm
Event venue: Canterbury Hospital Education Centre, 575 Canterbury Road Cnr Thorncraft & McKenzie Street Campsie, NSW 2194
Registration: Registrations via the event website. RSVP 29 April 2024
Canterbury Hospital would like to invite General Practitioners, who practice in the Canterbury area, to an information evening to provide an update on our new services and referral pathways.
The evening will include presentations from:
Hospital Information Stalls 6pm – 6-30pm
Cost: Free
Contact Email: Suzanne.Baker@health.nsw.gov.au
Event date and time: Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This interactive online workshop will discuss the benefits of using digital mental health tools with patients, how to use them effectively plus how to find tools and, recommend those that are proven to work.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: education@blackdog.org.au
Event date and time: Saturday, 4 May 2024, 8.30 am – 2.30 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This one-day, live interactive online course, will feature presentations from Australia’s leading interdisciplinary experts in this field. Throughout the course, the session will delve into case studies, explore the latest evidence-based practice, and discuss key considerations for primary care providers and specialists to manage a range of common pelvic floor disorders. This will enhance your knowledge and skills, enabling you to provide optimal care and support to your patients living with pelvic floor disorders.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: med.ob.gyn.courses@monash.edu
Event date and time: Saturday, 4 May 2024, 9.30 am – 12.30 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This is a half-day workshop for mental health professionals supporting adults who experienced sexual abuse in childhood. This workshop is aimed at providing an opportunity to connect, and discuss challenges of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) treatment, as well as offer practical solutions for responding to most common client presentations and concerns that arise in a clinical setting. An experienced trauma-informed psychotherapist will guide you through thought evoking case studies and intervention examples that can enhance your professional skills in the areas of CSA disclosures, trauma symptoms and frequently encountered barriers to client engagement and recovery.
Learning Objectives:
Cost: $275
Contact Email: existentialanalyst@outlook.com
Event date and time: Saturday, 4 May 2024, 8.35 am – 4.35 pm
Event venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Sydney, 117 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
GPs contribute significantly to the healthcare of female patients. Women’s health-related matters are the fifth most common reason for GP presentations, highlighting the importance for GPs to be well informed of women’s health concerns.
This activity will provide GPs with a greater understanding of a range of women’s health issues, including; fertility assessment, family planning, contraception, chronic pelvic pain and breast cancer screening. These issues are some of the most common reasons women visit their GP. A greater understanding of these clinical presentations will allow GPs to be best placed to identify areas of concern and how best to investigate, manage and/or treat these concerns.
Cost: $30 for Registrars, $60 for GPs
Contact Email: CPD@myhealth.net.au
Event date and time: Webinar series starting on: Monday, 6 May; Thursday, 16 May; Monday, 27 May and Thursday, 6 June 2024.
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
May is Neurofibromatosis awareness month. In support of this occasion, Alexion is delighted to invite you to Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) Insights with the Experts – A virtual series on the latest developments in paediatric NF1 clinical practice.
These 1-hour meetings aim to provide you with the latest evidence and best practices from both international and local speakers on topics that will have a direct impact on your clinical practice.
Contact Email: david.truong@alexion.com
Event date and time: Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 9.00 am – 4.30 pm
Event venue: Holiday Inn Sydney Airport, Cnr of Bourke Road and O’Riordan Street, Mascot NSW 2020
Registration: Registrations via the Benchmarque website.
Develop knowledge and skills exploring a range of wound closure and suture techniques with a face-to-face workshop where students are equipped with a workshop kit. Understand what the optimal wound closure methodology would be based on the simplest procedure with the most durable outcome for patients.
Learning Outcomes
Cost: $700
Contact Email: courses@benchmarquegroup.com.au
Event date and time: Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This training is adapted from the 2-day workshop, which was based on LGBTIQ+ Health Australia’s Working Therapeutically with LGBTI Clients: A Practice Wisdom Resource. This resource was developed by practitioners with extensive experience and deep knowledge about working with LGBTIQ+ people and communities.
Practice Wisdom is an experiential training that translates expertise to a counselling room context, focusing on being a trusted collaborator, survival and resilience, minority stress, intersectionality, and concepts of power in therapeutic work.
Learning Objectives
Improve your role as a therapist supporting LGBTIQ+ people
Understand the complexity of living as an LGBTIQ+ person in modern Australia
Introduce the power of naming experiences and being an effective ally
Learn to talk about intimacy, bodies and sex
Engage effectively with transgender people
Engage effectively with people with an intersex variation.
Target Audience
Mental health and suicide prevention professionals who engage in counselling or therapeutic work with LGBTIQ+ people.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: mindout@lgbtiqhealth.org.au
Event date and time: Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This webinar, aimed at health professionals and educators, will outline the value of pleasure-focused, positive approaches to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Relationships and Sexuality Education. It will emphasise the need to move beyond traditional harm reduction/risk minimisation paradigms and towards affirming and holistic care that promotes sexual well-being, empowerment, and safer sex practices. Attendees will hear from a range of guest speakers with experience in either clinical or education settings and gain practical tips and tools to incorporate pleasure-positive approaches into their own work.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: education@ashm.org.au
Event date and time: Thursday, 9 May 2024, 9.00 am – 4.30 pm
Event venue: Holiday Inn Sydney Airport, Cnr of Bourke Road and O’Riordan Street, Mascot NSW 2020
Registration: Registrations via the Benchmarque website.
Further development of wound closure knowledge and skills increases capability of wound clinical management across a range of primary healthcare settings including general practice, community-based care, dermatological, and educational. Understand guidelines for administration of local anaesthetics, infection management, post-operative care, MBS billing item numbers, professional indemnity considerations, all covered in this Advanced Practice Program.
Learning Outcomes
Cost: $700
Contact Email: courses@benchmarquegroup.com.au
Event date and time: Thursday, 9 May 2024, 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This free APNA and RACGP accredited webinar is for general practitioners, nurses and allied health staff to learn to:
1. Interpret child growth charts in the early years
2. Recognise the skills required to have meaningful conversations with families about a healthy growth
3. Identify key messages to support the healthy growth of young children.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: KRTNE-ConnectingTheDots@health.nsw.gov.au
Event date and time: Thursday, 9 May 2024, 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
Join Kidney Health Australia with Prof David Johnson (Nephrologist) and Dr Caitlin Sum (General Practitioner) as they explore how to detect and diagnose chronic kidney disease in at risk populations. They will identify the three elements of the Kidney Health Check and why testing for albuminuria is critical. Tips for creating a simple plan to detect and diagnose chronic kidney disease in individuals without a coded diagnosis will be outlined.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: primary.care@kidney.org.au
Event date and time: Saturday, 2 March 2024 and Saturday, 11 May 2024
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
An interactive virtual workshop for those new to Immunisation, or with some experience, who would benefit from a small classroom setting, learning the basics of ‘how to do a catchup?’. Develop an understanding of vaccination planning, and various schedules following the guidelines of the Australian Immunisation Handbook. Using simple scenarios your ongoing learning will be developed and tested with other practitioners in a small classroom setting. Review catch-up principles and scenarios, and advance your learning by asking the questions you need from your clinical setting in a supportive environment.
By the end of this virtual workshop, you will have refreshed your knowledge on how to work through a basic catch-up and the processes involved. You will practice working through one or more scenario’s using the Australian Immunisation Handbook Catch-Up Tables, and be provided with answers for any questions you might have.
Cost: $95
Contact Email: courses@benchmarquegroup.com.au
Event date and time: Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This webinar for primary care providers, including Medical Practitioners and Nursing Professionals, aims to improve knowledge and confidence in supporting and caring for patients from migrant and refugee communities.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: education@ashm.org.au
Event date and time: Session 1: Saturday, 18 May, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm and Session 2: Saturday, 25 May, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
The course will provide Nursing and Midwifery Professionals with advanced practical skills and knowledge in hepatitis B nursing.
The course includes presentations and case discussions that introduce the epidemiology and natural history of hepatitis B, vaccination, testing, fibrosis assessment, advanced liver disease, stigma and discrimination and the cultural context of hepatitis B nursing and midwifery.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: education@ashm.org.au
Event date and time: Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This 60-minute webinar will provide nurses in primary care with evidence and information for routine care for people living and aging with HIV. Participants will hear from clinical experts in HIV and representatives of NSW peer organisations and learn how to increase the delivery of care.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: education@ashm.org.au
Event date and time: Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
Through a case study, a presentation, interactive quizzes and an online learning module, this online workshop will provide nurses and midwives with the introductory skills to incorporate STI and BBV screening within their workplace.
This workshop is comprised of a mandatory online learning module, followed by an interactive live session.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: education@ashm.org.au
Event date and time: Thursday, 30 May 2024, 7.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
Pre-Exposure Prophyaxis, more commonly known as PrEP, prevents HIV infection if and when someone is exposed to the virus. As of June 2022, almost 60,000 people have accessed PrEP at least once and worldwide data shows falling rates of new HIV infections where PrEP coverage is good in high-risk populations. This course will inform you about PrEP and the dosing schedule for oral and injectable PrEP.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: education@ashm.org.au
Event date and time: Course commencement dates: Friday, 31 May 2024; Friday, 12 July 2024; Friday, 30 August 2024 and Friday, 18 October 2024.
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
The Certificate of Dermoscopy course is delivered online and designed for general practitioners, primary care nurses, and qualified dermal clinicians with minimal experience in Dermoscopy. The 6 week course enables practitioners to implement Dermoscopy in their primary care setting. Featuring live interactivity with expert dermoscopists, students have the opportunity to ask questions and receive feedback in real time during live webinar sessions. This course is accessible fully online and offered six times a year.
Cost: $2,100
Contact Email: education@skincancercollege.org
Event date and time: Saturday, 1 June 2024, 9.00 pm – 4.05 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
The Monash Victorian Heart Institute invites primary care physicians, nurses, allied health professionals and students with a specific interest in cardiology relevant to general practice, to attend the cardiology masterclass.
The program was designed specifically with General Practitioner’s in mind and the evidence-based presentations have a strong focus on providing practical advice with plenty of time for Q&A so you can gain the specific knowledge you require.
The Monash Victorian Heart Institute Cardiology Masterclass has an expert faculty lined up to summarise the latest research and clinical practice updates over 10 modules:
Cost: Free
Contact Email: vicheartinstitute@monash.edu
Event date and time: Saturday, 1 June 2024, 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This is an engaging webinar on trauma-informed practice, is tailored for Speech-Language Pathologists. Whether you’re new to trauma-informed practice or wish to deepen your knowledge, this session will enhance your skills in effectively working with both adults and children. Beyond specific cases of trauma, you’ll discover that the strategies we cover are universally applicable, equipping you to improve therapeutic outcomes, regardless of trauma history.
Cost: $76.58 – $90.09
Contact Email: kizzy@attunedspeech.com.au
Event date and time: Monday – Tuesday, 29 – 30 January; 3 – 4 June and 21 – 22 October 2024, 8.30 am – 4.00 pm
Event venue: Australian College of Nursing, Level 6, 9 Wentworth Street, Parramatta NSW 2150
Registration: Registrations via the event website, January; June or October sessions.
A 2 day wound management course whose content can be immediately applied to the workplace to support clinicians working in nursing, allied health and pharmacy.
Cost: $550
Contact Email: lesley.saunders@acn.edu.au
Event date and time: Saturday, 13 April 2024 and Saturday, 8 June 2024
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
An interactive virtual workshop for an experienced Immuniser in Australia, validating and expanding your clinical experiences are essential for your ongoing continued learning, and sharing these with other practitioners in a small classroom setting. Review catch-up principles and scenarios, and advance your learning by asking the questions you need from your clinical setting in a supportive environment. Discussing larger more complex catchup scenarios that may involve families and routine catchup schedules but with added complexity, such as country of origin.
By the end of this virtual workshop, you will have refreshed your knowledge on how to work through a more complex catch-up process and what needs to be considered. You will practice working through one or more scenario’s using the Australian Immunisation Handbook Catch-Up Tables, and be provided with answers for questions you might have.
Cost: $95
Contact Email: courses@benchmarquegroup.com.au
Event date and time: Part 1: Tuesday 11 June, 6.30pm – 9.00pm; Part 2: Thursday 13 June, 6.30pm – 9.00pm; Part 3: Tuesday 18 June, 6.30pm – 9.00pm and Part 4: Thursday 20 June, 6.30pm – 9.00pm.
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This four-part online training course helps nurses, midwives and sexual health workers understand the public health aspects and clinical management of common STIs, HIV and hepatitis B. The course helps participants develop confidence in a proactive and practical approach to health care and evidence-based practice.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: education@ashm.org.au
Event date and time: Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 12.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This free training course provides nurses and midwives with the knowledge and confidence to increase screening and management of hepatitis C in primary care settings.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: education@ashm.org.au
Event date and time: Monday, 17 June 2024, 6.30 pm – 8.00 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This session will provide a sexual health and HIV update for NSW-based primary care clinicians. The presenters will discuss emerging sexual health and HIV trends, new treatments/clinical practice and guidelines, resources/support available. Content areas will include Syphilis, Doxy-PEP, Long-acting injectable HIV PrEP, and Pelvic inflammatory disease.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: education@ashm.org.au
Event date and time: Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
This free RACGP-accredited webinar is for general practitioners, nurses and allied health staff to learn:
a) Key elements of responsive feeding practices for promoting and supporting continued breastfeeding
b) Key elements of responsive feeding and safe practices for infants being offered bottles as their feeding method.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: KRTNE-ConnectingTheDots@health.nsw.gov.au
Event date and time: Saturday, 15 June 2024, 8.00 am – 5.00 pm
Event venue: Club Central Hurstville, 2 Crofts Ave, Hurstville NSW 2220
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
Waratah Private Hospital invites you to this CPD Activity Orthopaedic Update. By participating at this conference, you will receive up to 10+ CPD hours of Education 2024 CPD Accredited activity for GPs with RACGP.
Speakers: Prof Sam Adie, Dr Anthony Keeley, Rehabilitation Experts and more to be announced.
Cost: Free
Contact Email: marketing@waratahprivate.com.au
Event date and time: Wednesday, 17 July 2024; Thursday, 29 August 2024; Tuesday, 17 September 2024; Friday, 18 October 2024 and Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
GPs often play a central role in the provision of healthcare to communities in the immediate, acute phase of emergency situations, and on an ongoing basis for the long-term recovery of individuals and their broader community.
Emergency Service Workers are one of the high-risk groups for trauma exposure and are more vulnerable to developing mental health problems. These mental health conditions have significant impact on their employment, family/relationships, and wellbeing.
This workshop has been designed with a focus on GPs, to diagnose patients with acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and other comorbidities. Evidence based guidelines will be used as the foundation to appropriately diagnose and identify treatment pathways including recommended referrals, trauma focused psychological therapy and psychological first aid to help support their management of emergency service workers. The training may also be relevant to other health professionals.
This training aims to increase participants’ skills and confidence to:
Cost: Free
Contact Email: nationalemergencyworkersupport@blackdog.org.au
Event date and time: Friday, 19 July – Saturday, 17 August 2024
Event venue: Online (Friday, 19 July – Friday, 16 August) and Face-to-face venue in Sydney (Saturday, 17 August)
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
The Certificate of Skin Cancer Medicine is the recommended starting point for GPs wanting to expand their knowledge and skills in primary care skin cancer medicine. The foundational course commences with a 4-week online learning phrase, followed by a hands-on practical workshop. This course offers comprehensive support from experienced practitioners for the safe practice of skin cancer medicine surgical techniques.
Cost: $2,530
Contact Email: education@skincancercollege.org
Event date and time: Friday, 19 July 2024, 8.30 am – 3.00 pm
Event venue: Canada Bay Club,8 William Street, Five Dock, NSW 2046
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
Presented by Dr Michelle Gibb, Nurse Practitioner of Wound Management and Founder and Director of Wound Specialist Services.
Wish you knew what dressing to use?
Want some handy hints on how to get bandages and dressings to stay where you put them?
Need to know what dressings you can and can’t cut?
Then this practical workshop is for you!
Most workshops give you a whole lot of ‘what’. This workshop will deliver a whole lot of ‘how’!
Focusing on the basics of wound care and will be discussing treatment options for different types of common wounds, how to best address challenges in wound care, and working through ten case studies. The workshop also includes a 90-minute practical session.
The Back to Basics Wound Care workshop will offer healthcare professionals an in-person opportunity to refresh their skills and knowledge in the basics of wound care. Guests will be able to use the time spent in the workshop towards their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements that aim to maintain, improve, and broaden their professional knowledge.
Cost: $10
Contact Email: marketing@sssaustralia.com.au
Event date and time: Saturday, 20 July 2024, 8.30 am – 5.15 pm
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
Following on from 6 years of running the successful two-day course: “Let’s Talk About Sex: Sexuality and Sexual Difficulties”, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University have developed a one-day live, online course on managing sexual pain.
In this course we have the opportunity to dive deeper into the breadth and complexities of helping people who are experiencing painful sex.
Cost: $380-$480
Contact Email: med.ob.gyn.courses@monash.edu
Event date and time: Friday, 25 – Saturday, 26 October 2024
Event venue: Hyatt Regency, 161 Sussex St, Sydney NSW 2000
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
Save the date for the 2024 Australasian Melanoma Conference, hosted by Melanoma Institute Australia.
This highly-anticipated conference will be held on 25-26 October 2024 in the heart of Sydney’s magnificent Darling Harbour.
AMC 2024 will bring together multidisciplinary healthcare professionals and researchers from across Australia, New Zealand and beyond. It will provide a unique platform to share insights and latest melanoma research findings via thought-provoking discussions, workshops and presentations.
This conference will pave the way for new collaborations and significantly advance our understanding of melanoma as we all move towards our common goal of zero deaths from melanoma.
Cost: TBC
Contact Email: amc2024@melanoma.org.au
Event date and time: February 2024 – February 2025
Event venue: Online
Registration: Registrations via the event website.
The Royal Children’s Hospital, Education Hub has opened registrations for the 2024 GP Program.
The first live webinar is on Thursday 22nd February with expert speakers on topics such as tonsil and ear troubles, gender diversity in children, children and sleep, growth and short stature, common paediatric skin disease, headaches and migraines, epilepsy and seizures and early detection of cerebral palsy. All webinars are recorded for later viewing. The program includes an online chat forum and resources for each webinar. An addition to the program is a Peer Group session to discuss and ask questions that are relevant to GP practice.
Cost: $250 +GST
Contact Email: education.hub@rch.org.au
