CPD for Doctors (and Medical Students) - the next chapter!

Looking back over the year, it has certainly been a busy one in terms of continuing professional development in addition to my teaching duties at the University and working as an occasional BLS/ALS trainer. You certainly never stop learning as a doctor!

The Cool Topics in Neonatology conference and the Supporting Neonatal Transition workshop presented by the Royal Women's Hospital were excellent. There is so much interesting research going on, much of it here in Melbourne.

The Royal Children's Hospital deserves to be commended for its CPD program - weekly Grand Rounds, special Practical Paediatrics events for GPs and the recent Campus Research and Education Week, which was simply outstanding.

Also deserving of credit are the RVEEH (Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital) for its series of updates for GPs, and MIPS, a medical indemnity organisation which runs risk management workshops for its members.

The RACGP runs several workshops and seminars over the course of the year, as does Australian Doctor, and the ones that I attended were both interesting and worthwhile.

Over the past couple of years I have attended both of the Anaesthetics symposia run by St Vincent's Hospital and the Alfred, and these are normally of a very high standard.

The Monash University Disaster Resilience initiative continued its series of periodic symposia in 2012, and these appear set to continue in 2013.

The International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine hosted some interesting presentations, and it was a good opportunity to meet fellow practitioners from around the world. Perhaps the highlight was the visit on the last day to the Air Ambulance facility at Essendon Airport and the Trauma Centre at the Alfred Hospital. Some photos appear at the bottom of this page.

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RWH – Cool Topics in Neonatology 2012 2.0* RWH – Supporting Neonatal Transition 2012 1.0* Social Media, eHealth and Telehealth (MIPS Education) 0.5* RCH Campus Research and Education Week 3.0* (Events attended: Optimising the use of modern learning environments; Qualitative Research; Clinical Update: Sleep and Allergy; Research Higher Degree Workshop (Authorship and Plagiarism); Grand Round: Paediatric Fracture Guidelines; Epidemiology of trauma at RCH; Designing education to address learners’ needs; Statistics: the basics (CEBU); Basic principles of coding qualitative data; Contemporary evaluation of injury severity scoring; MESS: amputation vs conservation; The Primary Trauma Care Course – Trauma education in less affluent countries; Non-operative management of occiputo-cervical dissociation in children; Tactical Medicine: Medical care in the modern combat environment; Selling our message to patients in the new millennium; The Big Idea; The rise of the ‘ePatient’: how it is affecting our clinical practice and research; Telemedicine; But I thought the Internet would provide the interaction; The Great Debate: “Social media is a vital tool in healthcare research and education”.) Dealing with Difficult Patients (MIPS Education) 0.5* RVEEH - Dizziness, Vertigo and Common Eyelid Disorders 0.5* Mastering Patient Expectations Workshop (Cognitive Institute) 0.5* 60th International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine, Melbourne 4.0* Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Values Symposium 1.0* Short Course in Perioperative Medicine Intensive Weekend 2.0* The Alfred Anaesthetics Symposium: Goal Directed Therapy 1.0* RCH Practical Paediatrics Program: Paediatric Orthopaedics Part 3 0.5* Australian Doctor Paediatrics Seminar 0.5* RACGP Psychodynamic Approaches to Focused Psychological Strategies 1.0* Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre – Lymphoma, Leukaemia and other Haematological Cancers, Late Effects of Cancer Treatment – What GPs Need to Know 0.5* University of Melbourne MD Student Conference 3* RVEEH - Cataract and Pterygium, Rhinitis and Polyps 0.5* Ambulance Victoria Remote Area Nurses (Victoria) Emergency Care Update Program – Workstations observer 1* Australian Resuscitation Council (Victorian Branch) 5th State Conference. Resuscitation 2012: Translating Evidence into Practice. 1* Monash Disaster Resilience Forum – Managing internally displaced people 1* RCH Grand Round – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Tired but never boring. New opportunities for a common illness. Acute Life-Threatening Emergencies, Recognition and Treatment (ALERT) 2* MIPS Seminar - Healing at the end of life 0.5* AMA - Working Overseas in Crisis Areas Seminar 0.5* Rogaining Training Day, Victorian Rogaining Association 1* Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Equity and Staff Development Forum: Working together to support work-life balance 0.5* Dealing with Difficult Patients 0.5* Australian Doctor Mental Health Seminar 1* RVEEH – Hoarse Voice & the Inflammatory Red Eye 0.5* Melbourne Med. School – Integrating Communication Skills in Clinical Rotations 0.5* Melbourne Medical School – Providing Feedback to Students 0.5* Monash Disaster Resilience Forum – Learning lessons:recent disaster reviews 1* RCH Grand Round - Does general anaesthesia damage the developing brain? SVH Department of Anaesthesia Workshop: ‘Avoiding Disasters – Minimising Risk and Maximising Safety’ 1* Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Course 1* Medical Education Unit, Melbourne University Medical School – Principles of Clinical Practice Tutor Training Workshop 0.5* Orientation Tour, new Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne 0.5* Medical Education Unit, Melbourne University Medical School – Case-Supported Learning Tutor Training Workshop 1* ACCET Choral Conductors 19th Summer School 4*

Photos from ICASM visit to the Air Ambulance base and the Alfred Hospital Trauma Centre, Helipad and Hyperbaric Chamber (20 September 2012).