Self-paced learning for health professionals

Asthma in Australia series

Asthma Australia is a content partner with ThinkGP, and proudly sponsors free, evidence-based, up-to-date and accessible learning for healthcare professionals. The Asthma in Australia series is a patient-focused and clinically relevant medical education is provided with flexibility in mind:

• six single Modules, each worth 1 hour of Educational Activity (EA) time
• an Advanced Course which will provide 6 hours of EA time and 2 hours of Reviewing Performance (RP) time
• videos of different perspectives on lived experience with asthma. 

Increasing the uptake of MyMedicare patient registration

Currently, patients in Australia can visit multiple GPs or clinics without formally registering with a specific practice. While this flexibility offers choices, it can also result in fragmented care and inefficient resource allocation.

By analysing the demographic and health profiles of their registered patients, practices can identify patients who could benefit from voluntary patient registration.

• Activity 1: Chronic Condition Management mini data audit
• Activity 2: MyMedicare long audit activity

Demystifying Dementia webinar series

COORDINARE - South Eastern NSW PHN, Capital Health Network (ACT PHN), partnered with Dementia Training Australia to develop a series of webinars for Primary Care clinicians to offer a practical and stepwise approach to improve, knowledge, skills and confidence in recognising, diagnosing and managing dementia in the general practice setting. The webinars also include information for Practice Nurses, including:

• Practice Nurse: Dementia Education Webinar 1
• Practice Nurse: Dementia Education Webinar 2

Disaster Preparedness in General Practice

Are you a practice owner, GP, Practice Manager, or someone appointed as your practice's emergency coordinator?

COORDINARE have created an RACGP CPD Accredited mini audit looking at Disaster Preparedness planning in general practice.

CALDWays course - Culture and Dementia

MCCI is now offering a new free CALDWays course on culture and dementia! Through videos with practical examples and interactive activities, you will gain skills and knowledge which can help you better understand and care for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds living with dementia.

The course is available for free via the MCCI website and can be done in your own time. After completing the course, you receive a certificate which shows your commitment to culturally inclusive care.

CareSearch online learnings for Health professionals

The A-Z of palliative care education, there are variations within each teaching resource, some are fully developed educational programs with training and self-evaluation activities, some are compendia of teaching materials or PowerPoint slides on relevant topics, and a few are discussion starters.

Gwandalan National Palliative Care Project

Gwandalan National Palliative Care Project is funded by the Australian Government under the Public Health and Chronic Disease Care Grant, National Palliative Care Projects 2020-2023.

The suite of education and training materials were developed to support relationships between service providers, frontline staff and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities through cross- cultural education and the sharing of knowledge.

Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U) project

Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U) project provides open-access resources aimed at improving palliative care knowledge and skills. Access VET  Sector Toolkits, Educator Community Hub, Simulation and Interprofessional learning resources.

For full access to the PCC4U site, you first need to create an account here.

End of Life law for Clinicians (ELLC)

End of Life law for Clinicians (ELLC) is a training program for medical practitioners and students, nurses and other allied health professionals focuses on the law relating to end-of-life decision -making. There are 13 modules available.

Disaster support for babies, toddlers & caregivers

This free, short module goes through practical measures to support vulnerable babies and toddlers in disaster emergencies and is is designed specifically for emergency responders of all kinds, evacuation centre management, health, early childhood education and care, donations, local government, welfare, and catering.

GPEx - Practice Nurse Education and Development Program

GPEx’s Practice Nurse Education and Development Program is specifically tailored to nurses wanting to transition into a general practice setting, or those who are already working in primary health care who want to upskill.

ACRRM Grief and Bereavement Module

Through this course, you will learn to support your patients through grief and bereavement. This course has 2 CPD hours – Educational activity. It has been developed to be suitable for all General Practice staff. This course is free to members and non-members who work in COORDINARE’s catchment. If you are not a member and would like to access this course, please email info@coordinare.org.au to access a discount code.

ASHM - NSW Introduction to Syphilis for Midwives and Clinicians Providing Antenatal Care

This online learning module is designed to provide midwives and clinicians providing antenatal care in NSW, with the tools to identify priority populations for antenatal syphilis testing in their practice, and distinguish the stages of syphilis infection based on a patient’s history and clinical presentation. 

Becoming more LGBTQIA+ friendly in your practice

People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual/agender (LGBTQIA+) often face serious health inequities compared to the general population, as well as additional challenges due to marginalisation and harrassment.This 1-hour educational activity is designed to empower GPs to create a safer and more welcoming environment for LGBTQIA+ people in order to provide them with more holistic and patient-centred healthcare.

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum

This RACGP webinar series will help you to understand more about hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP), how to assess NVP symptom severity and how to plan and implement best practice holistic care.

GPEx Cervical Screening, HPV and Self-Collection

This course has a strong focus on HPV self-collection, presenting the latest evidence and the current self-collection policy, outlining when self-collection is not appropriate, plus an in-depth look at the screening pathway.

RACGP Cervical Screening in General Practice

The Cancer Institute NSW and Royal College of General Practitioners have partnered in a one-hour webinar to educate General Practitioners about the change to the self-collection policy and the critical role that General Practitioners play in supporting this change.

GPEx Breast, Bowel and Cervical Cancer Screening

This course will address such challenges, dispel myths and uncertainties around screening, offer tips to boost screening, and provide further resources for your practice.

STI and HIV Care in General Practice

This course aims to build GPs' and GP registrars' confidence when faced with a variety of sexual health care scenarios.

Learners will also be introduced to key NSW resources and support services to assist the delivery of high quality sexual healthcare to patients.