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General Practice Education eNewsletter
February 2020
What does 2020 have in store for the GP Education Project?
With the year well and truly underway, the GP Education project team have been working on exciting projects to bring you engaging education opportunities. We will keep you updated!
In 2020, we are working towards extending our supervised clinical attachments to include other tumor types. Some of you may have attended our previous supervised clinic attachments at the Oncology Breast Clinic at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. To find out more information please get in touch with the GP Education program.
Upcoming GP Events
Breast Cancer Update
Please note the change of date for this event.
This free seminar will provide an update for general practice on the management of patients with an increased risk of breast cancer and the pros and cons of diagnostic breast imaging.
Date: Thursday, 30 April
Time: 6:30 - 8.30pm
Cost: Free
Venue: Harry Perkins South, Fiona Stanley Hospital
Presented by:
• Professor Christobel Saunders, Head, Division of Surgery, UWA Medical School
• Dr Joanne Lazberger, Consultant Radiologist, Perth Radiology Clinic
• Dr Jacqui Thomson, Consultant Radiologist, Perth Radiology Clinic
This education is a CPD Activity under the RACGP CPD Program
Women's Health Day Spin Off - Joondalup
This seminar is a spin off event from the 2019 Annual Women’s Health Day for GPS and Practice Nurses. This seminar will cover women’s health topics including: Understanding Trans Health and Updates on Ovarian Cancer.
Date: Thursday, 2 April
Time: 6:30 - 8.30pm
Cost: Free
Venue: Sports Bar, HBF Arena, Joondalup
Presented by:
• Dr Sally Murray, Sexual Health Physician and Public Health Physician
• Dr Stuart Salfinger, Gynaecologic Oncologist
This education is a CPD Activity under the RACGP CPD Program
Save The Date - 16th Annual Women's Health Day for GPs & Practice Nurses
Date: Saturday, 5 September 2020
More details to come.
Palliative Care Education for GPs
Cancer Council WA's Palliative and Supportive Care Education (PaSCE) team have a great calendar of evidence-based education events lined up for General Practitioners.
PaSCE aims to increase knowledge for all health professionals caring for patients with a life limiting illness in all settings.There are multiple workshops suitable for General Practitioners that will enable you to apply a palliative approach to patients or up skill your palliative care knowledge.
Upcoming workshops include:
• Communication for Senior Staff in Aged Care
• Ways of Working with Grief & Loss in Aboriginal Communities
• Culturally Appropriate Palliative Care for Patients from the West Kimberley: A case study
• Clinicians Communication Program - Eliciting & Responding to Emotional Cues
New RACGP Guidelines for Supporting Smoking Cessation
In line with emerging evidence, the updated RACGP Guidelines for Supporting Smoking Cessation now recommend a three-step brief intervention model. The new model offers a more succinct and achievable approach to supporting smoking cessation than in previous editions:
• Ask and record smoking status
• Advise all people who smoke to quit and on the most effective methods
• Help by offering to arrange referral, encourage use of behavioural intervention and use of evidence-based smoking cessation pharmacotherapy
CCWA has welcomed the RACGP’s revised Guidelines for Supporting Smoking Cessation, which were first developed in 2011
Deserved attention for non-melanoma skin cancer
New clinical practice guidelines for keratinocyte (previously termed non-melanoma) skin cancer have been endorsed by the National Health and Medical Research Council. The guidelines summarise how GPs and healthcare professionals should best manage non-melanoma skin cancer. The guidelines contain the latest on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the condition. Subjects discussed include advice on skin cancer prevention and early detection for those at higher risk.
University of Melbourne Associate Professor, Peter Foley, stated that “one of the big changes is the non-melanoma skin cancer, which relate to basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, were rebadged as keratinocyte cancer’.
The guidelines can be found at Cancer Council Australia’s website.
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