Education and professional development

We offer a number of education and training opportunities for treating medical practitioners and their practice staff.

Online Courses

ReturnToWorkGP

ReturnToWorkGP is a free online course designed to provide you with the skills, tools and knowledge to help guide and progress your patients' recovery and return to work.

Developed by ReturnToWorkSA in partnership with GPEx, the course teaches:

  • the health benefits of work
  • how GPs can help their patients return to work
  • how to navigate the Return to Work scheme.

This is a free, two-hour online course, which is CPD accredited with the following organisations in the 2023-2025 triennium:

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP):

  • Educational Activities: 1 hour
  • Reviewing Performance: 1 hour
  • Total: 2 hours

Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM):

  • Accreditation for the new triennium is pending.

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Opioids and Your Patient

Opioids and Your Patient is a free online course designed to provide you with the skills, tools and knowledge to help maximise patient benefits and minimise the potential harms associated with opioids. Supported by ReturnToWorkSA and developed by ReachForTheFacts in collaboration with industry experts, the course includes:

  • opioids and the dangers of use
  • when and how to prescribe
  • monitoring and review
  • de-prescribing prescription opioids.

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Upcoming Events

January 2024

Work injuries clinical audit

Five-stage audit, run from January/February - June 2024

Occupational specialists, Dr Thanh Ha and Dr Mary Wyatt, will guide and mentor participants through how to specifically address return to work barriers and implement strategies to bring about changes that enhance patient outcomes.

This activity incorporates reflection, self-directed activity, education and mentoring within the framework of a clinical audit process.

This is a five-stage audit activity to be completed over five to six months from January/February to June 2024.

The majority of the audit is self-driven reflection and action. There are two mandatory group discussion/reflection meetings held in February and May.

Leaning outcomes:

  • Review current practice and processes for screening, assessment and management of work-injured patients.
  • Identify ways to incorporate multi-disciplinary and biopsychosocial care into routine practice for work injuries.
  • Develop an action plan for implementation to improve psychosocial screening, collaboration with key stakeholders involved in a work injury claim, and management aligned to best-practice recommendations.

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Education at your clinic

Our work injury management modules include strategies and discussion points that are applicable to all patients, not just work injured. All modules include considerations for certifying capacity. These sessions are delivered by our Medical Advisors- external site- external site- external site- external site- external site- external site- external site- external site at your practice for your convenience.

Topics available include:

  • working with work injured patients
  • managing persistent pain
  • managing acute lower back injury and pain
  • the role of allied health in patient education.

Want to more information?

To learn more about our education offerings, including to arrange a session, please contact us on (08) 8238 5757 or email us at - external site- external site- external site- external site- external site- external site- external site- external s- external site- external site- external site