| GP Registrar Teleconference details | |
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Convenor: |
Nina Stupples |
| Date: | 10th July |
| Topic: | Starting Insulin in Diabetes - Topic / case studies
and guest speaker - Dr Tarun Weeramanthri (community physician from RDH). |
| Learning Objective: | 1. To discuss the general management of DM. 2. To discuss the approach to commencing insulin in patients with DM |
| Recommended Reading: | 1. CARPA 4th edition2. CHECK program Feb/March 2002.
Type 2. Diabetes Syndrome. 3. Diabetes Management in General Practice 2002. Diabetes Australia/RACGP 4. Medicine Today Supplement August 2002. Insulin in Type 2 Diabetes 5. Australian Prescriber Vol 25/2/p29-31 available at www.australianprescriber.com6. Lancet Vol 352 p 837-865 1998. UK Prospective Diabetes Study |
| Website Links: | None Submitted |
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| Convenor: | Chris Watson |
| Date: | 11th September |
| Topic: | COPD |
| Learning Objective: | Review of COPDX guidelines put out by the Australia and NZ Thoracic Society with guest Jenny Hipple Respiratory Nurse |
| Recommended Reading: | None submitted |
| Website Links: | None submitted |
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| Convenor: | Azra Potapov |
| Date: | 25th September |
| Topic: | Lower Back Pain |
| Learning Objective: | None submitted |
| Recommended Reading: | Hudson, R. Low Back Pain - a simple protocol for GPs Vol 3, Number 6. June 2002 |
| Website Links: | None submitted |
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| Convenor: | Ghandi Kathiresu |
| Date: | 2nd October |
| Topic: | STI Screening |
| Learning Objective: | None Submitted |
| Recommended Reading: | AFP May 2003, Current Therapeutics July 2000, CARPA Treatment Manual |
| Website Links: | None Submitted |
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| Convenor: | Anita Watts |
| Date: | 9th October |
| Topic: | Osteoporosis |
| Learning Objective: | None Submitted |
| Recommended Reading: | None Submitted |
| Website Links: | None Submitted |
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| Convenor: | Simon Morgan |
| Date: | 30th October |
| Topic: | GP Urology |
| Learning Objective: | 1.To understand the management of common male
urological presentations in general practice. 2.To understand the issues in screening for prostate cancer. |
| Recommended Reading: | Word Document (see link below) |
| Website Links: | Beyond the Penis (word doc 42.6KB) |
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| Convenor: | Agnes Ocampo |
| Date: | 6th November |
| Topic: | Dizziness |
| Learning objective: | None Submitted |
| Recommended Reading: | Word Document (see link below) |
| Website Links: | Dizziness (word doc 894 KB) |
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| Convenor: | Tamsin Cockayne |
| Date | 13th November |
| Topic: | Hepatitis & Parenchymal Liver Disorders Various case studies for discussion re: diagnosis, investigation and treatment. |
| Learning Objective: | 1. To better understand the use & interpretation
of viral hepatitis investigation. 2. To discuss management of hepatitis in the acute & chronic setting. 3. To briefly discuss other causes of parenchymal liver disorders. |
| Recommended Reading:: | Murtagh AFP Volume 30 Number 5, May 2001 - the disordered liver (Handouts to be faxed) |
| Website Links: | None Submitted |
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| Convenor: | Marianne Bookalil |
| Date | 4th December |
| Topic: | Hepatitis A |
| Learning Objective: | None submitted |
| Recommended Reading: | 1. Hanna J, Fulminant hepatitis A in Indigenous
children in north Qld, MJA 2000;172: 19-21 2. Australian Immunisation Handbook, 8th edition, read the chapter on Hepatitis A. |
| Website Links: | 1. http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/172_01_030100/hanna/hanna.html 2. http://immunise.health.gov.au/handbook.htm |
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