The first week in August is Dental Health Week, so we’re also taking a look at teeth. As GP’s, particularly rural GPs, we have patients presenting as a result of dental disease almost on a daily basis. For most of us, our undergraduate teaching barely touched on problems in the mouth, and it’s certainly an...
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“Syncope is a sudden, transient, self-limiting loss of consciousness associated with an inability to maintain postural tone”. In this webinar excerpt, Associate Professor Geoff Couser discusses an approach to patients presenting with syncope. Geoff (FACEM MEd) is a senior staff specialist in emergency medicine at the Royal Hobart Hospital and a Clinical Consultant with Ambulance...
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This month, Dr Sonia Singh discusses cultural communication in general practice. Dr Singh co-ordinated a session at the last RVTS workshop on “Cultural Diversity”. During the session, consults were presented by registrars in a traditional setting in their own language. Guessing the context of the consult from the dynamics and body language revealed implicit biases....
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Please note that this episode is more than seven years old. Some content may no longer be current best practice. Understanding absolute cardiovascular risk is vital in clinical decision making. Taking various risk factors into consideration and identifying those at increased cardiovascular risk can improve the health outcomes for your patients. So how do you...
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Please note the content of this episode is more than seven years old. Some content may no longer be best practice. In this webinar excerpt with John Kelly, we discuss HYPERTENSION. The Heart Foundation’s latest Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of hypertension in adults have some changes which are highlighted. John discusses the diagnosis...
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How do you explain a diagnosis to a patient in a concise, understandable, succinct way? During a recent discussion with a registrar, a few universal tactics were discussed: find out what the patient already knows about the condition tailor the information to the individual use simple language that will be easily understood provide written information (there are...
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In this webinar recording, Shirley Alexander discusses childhood obesity and gives practical tips for GPs to manage this important condition. Recognising obesity in children is not as easy as you may think and requires measuring and plotting weight to identify those at increased risk. Addressing the topic in a non-judgemental way gives the best chance...
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Dr Vincent Cornelisse is on a crusade to improve sexual health medicine in Australia, and is doing a great job at it! Recently he presented to a group of GPs on “healthcare for men who have sex with men”, which was filmed. The recording has been made available to be viewed, so please access it here. Sexual health...
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In this months interview, I speak with the RVTS CEO and director of training, Pat Giddings. We discuss the unique training model RVTS utilises, which includes remote supervision, weekly webinars, workshops twice a year, clinical teaching visits, an online learning platform with interactive modules and online discussion forums. RVTS is unique in that it trains via...
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This webinar recording follows on from the previous discussion. In today’s excerpt, Dr Emma Boulton discusses 4 patients presenting with Menstrual Issues. These cases provide an introduction to assessing patients with period problems. It is by no means exhaustive, but gives a great overview and approach to patients presenting with these problems. 4 Cases of Menstrual...
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