GP Events

2 Day Workshop - A Skin Cancer Workshop for GPs

Discussion Points:

Diagnosis, excisions, margins & flaps repairs, scar management and medicolegal pitfalls.

Join our team of experts for this practical hands-on session featuring specialists:

• Dermatology: Dr Dougal Coates & Dr Lauren Young
• Plastic Surgery: Dr Lily Vrtik, Dr Matthew Peters, Dr Brendan Louie
• Pathology: Dr Richard Williamson
• Radiation Oncology: Dr Art Kaminski
• Oncology: Dr Adam Stirling
• Medicolegal: Talitha Burson

Program:

SATURDAY

• 8.00am – 4.00pm
• Topics include: Dermoscopy; biospies, shaves, curette and diathermy; non-surgical treatment; MOHs; pathology; radiation and medicolegal pitfalls

SUNDAY

• 8.30am – 12.00pm
• Topics: Flaps and grafts; scar therapy; MBS and billing

*please note that the program may be altered without notice.

Good Sport & Weighty Issues GP Education Evening

Discussion points:

Minor sports injuries, concussion, growing pains, updating bariatric surgery, GP challenges.

Learning outcomes:

• Identify the role of the Sports Medicine Physician in

the management of non-operative orthopaedics

• Implement a concussion management plan for the paediatric athlete

• Describe the differential diagnoses of “growing pains” in children

• Discuss bariatric surgery options, cost effectiveness, outcomes and complications

• Participate in a multidisciplinary team approach to weigh loss and the maintenance thereof.

Program:

6.00pm Registration and dinner

6.30pm Presentations and discussion

• Paediatric orthopaedics; not just growing pains - Dr Sheanna Maine, Orthopaedic Surgeon
• The role of the sports physician in non-operative orthopaedics - Dr Stacey Compton, Sports & Exercise Medicine Physician
• Bariatric surgery update: options, evidence base, cost effectiveness, GP challenges - Dr Benjamin Dodd, Bariatric and General Surgeon

9.00pm Evaluation and close

Presenters

Hereditary Gynaecological Cancer & Common Achilles Tendon Problems

Learning Outcomes

• Follow current guidelines for risk reduction in women with BRCA gene mutations

• Identify women at increased risk of developing  gynaecological cancers and refer appropriately

• Diagnose and manage common Achilles tendon problems

Presenters