E-learning activities
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The Challenging Emotions of Difficult News
- Gain practical advice on how to respond most appropriately to patients’ and families’ negative reactions; communicate empathically, providing support and promoting trust and realistic hope; and manage personal negative reactions resulting from communicating difficult news.
- Delivered by Dr Frances Poliniak, this 2.5-hour online activity allows you to share ideas with fellow participants, critique video scenarios, and download PDF resources.
- A participation certificate is provided and CPD recognitions apply.
- Access and more information here.
Informed Consent Challenges
- Develop your knowledge and skills in facilitating a consent process that leads to optimal patient understanding and shared decision-making.
- Delivered by Dr Genevieve Yates, this 2-hour online activity explores several case scenarios allowing you to compare your anonymous answers with other doctors and medico-legal experts, and to reflect on how you implement informed consent processes into your consultations.
- A participation certificate is provided and CPD recognitions apply.
- Access and more information here.
Medico-legal CPD Quiz
- Read short articles about medical records, privacy and professional obligations, and answer questions
- Around 2 hours to finish
- Relevant for all doctors
- Participation certificate supplied on completion
- CPD recognitions apply
- Access and more information here.
Noteworthy: The How, What, Where and Why of Medical Documentation
- Do you effectively use medical records to support continuity of care and confidently manage access to records?
- In this 2.5-hour activity, Dr Eric Khong and Claims Manager, Victoria Astill-Smith, help you create good quality records and deal with issues surrounding documentation.
- The focus is on areas identified as being problematic for doctors in recent court and disciplinary cases.
- The example scenarios and quiz questions are suitable for doctors at all career stages.
- A participation certificate is provided and CPD recognitions apply.
- Access and more information here.
Prescribing Opioids
- Enhance your skills in identifying patients who are drug-dependent (or at risk of this) or drug-seeking, minimising harm, establishing clear and ethical boundaries, and managing a patient’s expectations.
- Join Prof Moira Sim to explore case scenarios and lawful and good practice opioid prescribing.
- Participants can anonymously share ideas and learnings with each other.
- This 3-hour activity is for General Practitioners and GP Registrars; however, others are welcome to participate.
- The activity is CPD-recognised with the RACGP and ACRRM.
- Access and more information here.
Surgeons' Risk Self-Assessment – Privacy in Private Practice
- Explore risks to patient safety in surgery and how to minimise them.
- Answer questions, compare your processes with other participants’, and plan improvements.
- These activities are designed for specialists and registrars in Ophthalmology and Surgery.
- The activities do not attract CPD recognition.
- Access and more information here.
Introduction to Open Disclosure
- The activity introduces the Australian Open Disclosure Framework and how it can be applied to a practice setting
- This 1 hour activity explores the barriers and benefits to Open Disclosure and provides participants with an opportunity to explore the components of Open Disclosure and how it can be applied.
- The example scenarios and quiz questions are suitable for doctors at all career stages.
- A participation certificate is provided and CPD recognitions apply.
- Access and more information here.
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