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Title Organisation Program Brief Maximum Credit Points
Location Contact details
Surgical Teachers Course
RACS - Professional Development
The emphasis of this course is on improved
teaching and assessment of surgical trainees by the
surgeons who are involved in supervising and mentoring these trainees within the
Australian and New Zealand Hospital System
60 credit points
Category 7
Various locations throughout Australia
2010 & 2011
Alicia Mew
Ph +61 3 9276 7440 Fax +61 3 9276 7432
CSSANZ Journal Clubs
CSSANZ
SGL. Monthly Journal Clubs.
Downstaging after chemotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer
5pph
Category 4
Various Cities in Australia & NZ
2010
Dr Caroline Wright FRACS
Ph +613 9889 9458 Fax + 613 9889 7359
Training in the Assessment of
Permanent Impairment
Jim Stewart Consulting Pty
Ltd
Training in the evaluation of permanent impairment as mandated by various Workers Compensation
and Motor Accident Authorities in Australian
States
12 credit points
Category 7 Category 8
Various locations
Dr Jim Stewart
Ph + 612 9997 8847 Fax + 612 9997 1035
The Referral – Investigations
and Tests
MIGA
The 2 hour workshop
provides discussion on - optimising the referral
process - understanding the areas
of vulnerability - Issues include
inadequate clinical information, inappropriate
or unnecessary investigations, delay in communicating results and poor systems and
procedures - Based on MIGA’s claims
experience
2 credit points
Category 7 Category 8
Various locations
Between August 2010 and March
2011
Mark Helier
Ph + 618 8238 4444 Fax + 618 8238 4445
MIGA
Hypothetical – ‘Good medicine requires good notes: poor
notes = poor defence’
MIGA
The hypothetical is based on MIGA’s claims
experience. The topic is explored from the
perspective of the doctor, the patient, the defence of
a claim and indemnity issues
2 credit points
Category 7 Category 8
Various locations
Between August 2010 and March
2011
Mark Helier Ph + 618 8238 4444 Fax + 618 8238 4445
Be INFOrMED Specialist
Management Services
A web-based training resource on the medico-
legal principles of consent to treatment
1 credit point per hour
Category 7
Online
Brendon Tudor
Ph +61 400 090 436 Fax +61 3 9836 2044
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Credit Points Location Contact details
SET Selection Interviewer
Training
RACS –
Professional Development
This 2 hour face to face workshop provides
professional development for Fellows involved in selection interviewer
training.
2 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
Various dates
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Orthopaedic Case Studies MIGA
Part of MIGA’s Interactive Risk Management
Program
1 credit point per hour
Category 4
Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Practice Review MIGA Online Activity
1 credit point per hour
Category 4
Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
General and Risk Focussed Questionnaires,
Quizzes
MIGA Online Activity
1 credit point per hour
Category 4
Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
The Difficult Patient – Case
Studies MIGA
Part of MIGA’s Interactive Risk Management
Program
2 credit points
Category 7 Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Non-procedural Case Studies –
Series B MIGA
Part of MIGA’s Interactive Risk Management
Program
2 credit points
Category 7 Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Non-procedural Case Studies –
Series A MIGA
Part of MIGA’s Interactive Risk Management
Program
2 credit points
Category 7 Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Procedural Case Studies –
Series B MIGA
Part of MIGA’s Interactive Risk Management
Program
2 credit points
Category 7 Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Procedural Case Studies –
Series A MIGA
Part of MIGA’s Interactive Risk Management
Program
2 credit points
Category 7 Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Practice Management –
Follow up Systems
MIGA Part of MIGA’s Interactive
Risk Management Program
2 credit points
Category 7 Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
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Credit Points Location Contact details
Drafting a Consent MIGA Part of MIGA’s Interactive
Risk Management Program
2 credit points
Category 7 Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Medical Notes MIGA Part of MIGA’s Interactive Risk Management Program
2 credit points
Category 7 Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Follow up – Your Duty of
Care Explored MIGA Part of MIGA’s Interactive
Risk Management Program
2 credit points
Category 7 Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Introduction to Risk
Management MIGA Part of MIGA’s Interactive
Risk Management Program
2 credit points
Category 7 Online
Mr Mark Helier
Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Supervisors and Trainers for SET (SAT SET) Course
RACS –
Professional Development
The SAT SET course helps to support supervisors and trainers to clarify their roles
within the Surgical Education and Training (SET) program
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Mastering Work / Life
Balance
Cognitive Institute
Practical, proven techniques to help tip the balance in
your favour.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
Mastering Shared
Decision Making
Cognitive Institute
Reducing litigation and enhancing patient
relationships by improving doctors’ skills in facilitating effective patient decision
making.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
Mastering Professional Interactions
Cognitive Institute
Reducing a risk of litigation through effective
communication with colleagues.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
Clinical Incident
Management Program
Cognitive Institute
A comprehensive program for organisations to ensure
prompt, effective and consistent conversations
with patients following serious adverse outcomes.
14 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White Phone: +61 7 3511 5000
Fax: +61 7 3876 5522 [email protected]
Mastering Improved Clinician
Performance
Cognitive Institute
Positive coaching skills to increase the ease and
effectiveness of managing clinicians towards improved
performance.
6 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
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Location Contact details
Mastering Supervision Challenges
Cognitive Institute
This is a practical
development workshop designed for supervisors of
trainees to gain skills in managing ‘problem trainees’
so they are able to reach their full professional
potential
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
Mastering Adverse
Outcomes
Cognitive Institute
This workshop takes a comprehensive approach to
the difficult area of discussing adverse
outcomes with patients.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
Mastering Your Risk
Cognitive Institute
This workshop gives doctors a thorough understanding in the issues surrounding risk
management and introduces practical preventative skills and techniques doctors can implement immediately to
reduce exposure to litigation.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
Mastering Open
Disclosure
Cognitive Institute
This workshop takes a
comprehensive approach to the difficult area of discussing adverse
outcomes with patients and overcoming the barriers of successful open disclosure
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
Mastering Difficult Patient
Interactions
Cognitive Institute
This is a practical skills development workshop
designed to give healthcare professionals competence in
handling difficult patients.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
5th Executive Masterclass
Australian Council on Healthcare Standards
Masterclass including themes of ‘Change Culture + Innovation’ and also ‘Making a new decade for Patients
and Staff’.
14 credit points
Category 7 Various
Joy Brumby
Phone: +61 2 9281 9955 Fax: +61 2 9211 9633 [email protected]
Mastering Your Risk
Medical Protection
Society
An introduction to risk management.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
Mastering Adverse
Outcomes
Medical Protection
Society
Exploring the effective management of adverse
outcomes for the benefit of patients and clinicians to
reduce risk.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
Mastering Professional Interactions
Medical Protection
Society
Reducing risk through more effective communication with
colleagues.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
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Mastering Difficult Patient
Interactions
Medical Protection
Society
A solution focused approach to enhancing the effectiveness and
ease of dealing with difficult patients and situations.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
Mastering Shared
Decision Making
Medical Protection
Society
Reducing litigation and enhancing patient relationships by improving doctors’ skills in
facilitating effective patient decision making.
3 credit points
Category 7 Various
Sarah White
Phone: +61 7 3511 5000 Fax: +61 7 3876 5522
AMA Difficult Cases
Workshops
RACS – Professional Development
Guidelines from the American Medical Association (AMA) to
provide guidance and direction to medico legal practitioners in
Australia.
3 credit points
Category 7 Category 8
Locations throughout Australia
2010
Rebecca Clancy
Phone: +61 3 9276 7473 Fax: +61 3 9276 7432
Emergency
Management of Severe
Burns (EMSB) (Re-Approval)
Australian & New Zealand
Burns Association (ANZBA)
Day long workshops teach how
to recognise, assess and transfer the severely burnt
patient. The series of lectures highlights the importance of
Aetiology, pathophysiology and emergency management and
treatment of the patient
9 credit points
Category 4 Various
Prof Peter Maitz, FRACS Ph + 617 3325 1030 [email protected]
Medical
Fatigue Risk Management Competency
Modules
QLD Health
Fatigue competency modules have been developed through ELMO e-learning systems and
made available through classroom sessions. Training
modules on the management of fatigue have been developed to support the introduction of the
Medical Fatigue Risk Management HR policy
1 credit point per
module
Category 7
Online Melissa Grant
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
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Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
ACT Annual Scientific Meeting
ACT Regional Committee
Annual Scientific Meeting - presentation of papers by surgeons
and trainees
6 credit points
Category 4
Canberra
18 September 2010
Eve Edwards
Ph + 612 6285 4023 Fax + 612 6285 3366
Australian Hand Surgery Society 2010 Registrar Hand Surgery
Review Course
Australian Hand Surgery Society
(c/- Taylored Images)
Scientific an d Research papers
presented by leading Hand Surgeons, specialists and
international guest speakers
13 credit points
Category 4
Canberra
21 – 22 March 2010
Lauren Born
(Taylored Images) Ph + 617 3366 2205 Fax + 617 3366 5170
2010 Australian Hand Surgery Society Annual
Scientific Meeting
Australian Hand Surgery Society
(c/- Taylored Images)
This Conference will involve Scientific and
Research papers presented by leading
Hand Surgeons, specialists and
international guest speakers
18 credit points
Category 4
Canberra
17 – 20 March 2010
Lauren Born
(Taylored Images) Ph + 617 3366 2205 Fax + 617 3366 5170
New South Wales
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact details
Multidisciplinary Trauma Forum
John Hunter Hospital,
Trauma Service
SGL based on an interesting and
recent multi-trauma patient presented
chronologically from scene to discharge.
Emphasis on timing, decision
making and possible therapy
alternatives
5pph
Category 4
Dr Cino Bendinelli FRACS Ph + 612 4921 4259 Fax +612 4921 4274
ASOHNS NSW
Section CPD Meetings
ASOHNS
These bi-monthly
meetings are designed to fulfil
requirements for a Type 1 surgical
practice, i.e surgeons
undertaking operative
procedures in hospitals or day
stay units
30 credit points
Category 4
Various bi-monthly 2008, 2009
& 2010
Mark Carmichael Ph: +61 2 99545856 Fax: +61 2 99576863
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Approved Medical
Specialist Forums
Workers Compensation Commission
Bi-monthly forums with an emphasis
on problem solving and case studies to improve quality of decisions, reduce
appeals and provide a forum for discussion
2 credit points per forum
Category 7
Darlinghurst Bi-monthly
Lyn Martin
Ph + 61 2 8381 6390 Fax + 61 2 9261 3156
Email: [email protected]
Acute Surgical
Care Conference in the Vineyards
Hunter Surgical Society
Conference education focusing on management of
acute surgical conditions with an
emphasis on obesity
9 credit points
Category 4
Hunter Valley, NSW
20 - 21 November
2010
Dr Costa Karihaloo Ph + 612 4985 5568 Fax + 612 4921 4274
Writing Reports for Court
RACS –
Professional Development
This half-day workshop focuses
on the fundamentals of an excellent medico
legal report.
4 credit points
Category 7
Sydney
20 November 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Providing Strategic Direction
RACS –
Professional Development
Gain the skills and knowledge to produce and implement an organisational
strategy
18 credit points
Category 7
Sydney
19-21 November 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Advanced
Arthroscopy Shoulder
Symposium
Johnson & Johnson Medical
Pty Ltd
Didactic presentations, live
surgery footage and panel discussions
14 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
19 – 20 November
2010
Peter van Gaalen
Ph + 613 9902 1376 Fax + 613 9560 3742 [email protected]
Advancements in Rhinology CME Dinner 2010 - "Intra-nasal
steroids: dispelling myth
to novel therapies"
St Vincents Hospital
1 hour education lecture and dinner.
The lecture will cover the use of steroids in the
management of sino-nasal disease.
1 credit point
Category 4
Point Piper, NSW
15 November 2010
A/Prof Richard Harvey FRACS Ph +614 1060 7630
Fax: +612 9360 9919 [email protected]
2010 Sydney
Colorectal Surgical Meeting
RACS
This conference enables Colorectal
Surgeons to discuss current issues. This
year’s theme is “Care of patients
with rectal cancer”
7 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
13 November 2010
Katie Fagan
Ph + 613 9249 1248 Fax + 613 9276 7431
Temporal Bone
Dissection Course
St Vincent’s Hospital
This course is mandatory for all
ENT trainees. Surgical
presentations and case discussions
with videos regarding essential
skills in Mastoid Surgery
20 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
5 - 7 November 2010
Dr Nigel Biggs
Ph + 612 8382 6413 Fax + 612 8382 6402
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
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Location Contact details
Macquarie
Neurosurgical Research and
Clinical Symposium 2010
Australian School of Advanced
Medicine, Macquarie University
Themes: State of the Art Clinical Practice and
Scientific Advances in CSF Disorders and
Radiosurgery
11 credit points
Category 4
Macquarie University,
Sydney
5 – 6 November 2010
Maggie Drummond Ph + 612 9812 3511 Fax + 612 9812 3600
7th International Congress of the
Society for Melanoma
Research and 4th Meeting of
Interdisciplinary Melanoma/Skin Cancer Centres (Melanoma 2010
Congress)
Melanoma Institute Australia
Integrated meetings that encapsulate the ongoing translation of our basic
knowledge of the cellular pathways underlying
melanoma development to the design of new
molecular therapies to treat this disease.
30 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
4 – 7 November 2010
Associate Professor Jonathan
Stretch Ph + 612 9911 7366 Fax + 612 9954 9435
25 Years of
Modern TKA & THA Clinical Symposium
Johnson & Johnson Medical
Pty Ltd
This clinical symposium
will focus on the presentation of current issues and solutions
regarding hip and knee arthroplasty, with a
specific focus on the heritage and clinical
management outcomes regarding the Sigma total knee system and Corail cementless hip system
15 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
4 – 5 November 2010
Gabby Caponi Ph + 613 9902 1371 Fax + 613 9560 3742 [email protected]
Introductory
Course: Process Communication Model (PCM)
Kahler Communications
Oceania / RACS
Professional Development
Process Communication
Model (PCM) enables you to decode behaviour, to understand underlying
psychological structures, to identify the onset of
dysfunctional behaviour and allows for
constructive, supportive intervention inside and outside the operating
theatre
20 credit points
Category 7
Sydney 29 – 31 Oct 2010
Merrily Smith
Ph + 613 9276 7441 [email protected]
Hernia Forum 2010
NSW ACT Hernia
Interest Group
The Hernia Forum will be
an opportunity for surgeons with an interest
in hernia surgery to present and share their experience and transfer
knowledge to others
4 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
16 October 2010
Mr Nabeel Ibrahim, FRACS
Fax + 612 9649 6611 [email protected]
Hand Trauma Emergency Care
Course
Sydney Hospital Hand Unit
Interactive and case based teaching of assessment and
management of all acute hand trauma. Sessions
will include lectures, case studies, scenarios, Q & A
sessions
6 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
25 September 2010
Dr Benjamin Hope, FRACS
Ph + 612 9382 7350
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
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Location Contact details
2010 ASPORL
Meeting
Australasian Society of Paediatric
OtoRhinoLaryngology (ASPORL)
To cover current issues in Paediatric Rhinology, Paediatric Otology, Paediatrics airway
surgery
10 credit
points
Category 4
Sydney
10 – 12 September 2010
Dr Alan Cheng, FRACS
Ph + 612 9763 1111 Fax + 612 9763 1234
5th Australasian
Rhinology Society Conference
St Vincent’s Hospital
Aimed at practising Surgeons and Registrars,
this course will cover advanced areas of
surgical management
16 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
3 – 5 September 2010
A/Prof Richard Harvey, FRACS
Ph + 612 9360 4811 Fax + 612 9360 9919
Australian & New
Zealand Head and Neck Cancer
Society Annual Scientific Meeting
Australian & New Zealand Head
and Neck Cancer Society
Focus on head and neck oncology
17 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
2 – 4 September 2010
Dr Bob Smee Ph + 612 9902 8144 Fax + 612 9438 3760
Endoscopic Sinus
& Skull Base Surgery Workshop
St Vincent’s Hospital
This course is aimed at practicing Surgeons and
Registrars. Advanced areas of surgical
management will be covered. Includes live surgery, lectures and
discussions
18 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
26 – 28 August 2010
A/Prof Richard Harvey, FRACS
Ph + 612 9360 4811 Fax + 612 9360 9919
Rhinoscopy
Cadaver Workshop
St Vincent’s Hospital
Modern concepts of
airways disease, inflammatory processes and an evidenced based
approach. There is a ‘hands on’ rhinoscopy cadaver lab with an
instructional session on rigid and flexible
endoscopy of the upper airway. Includes live surgery, lectures and
discussions
10 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
26 – 27 August 2010
A/Prof Richard Harvey, FRACS
Ph + 612 9360 4811 Fax + 612 9360 9919
Advancements in
Rhinology: ‘Approaches to the Sphenoid – the key
stone of sinus surgery’
St Vincent’s Hospital –
Advancements in Rhinology Lecture
Series
1 hour education lecture and dinner. The lecture will cover endoscopic
surgical approaches to the sphenoid sinus and how they apply to sinus
surgery in general
1 credit point
Category 4
Sydney
16 August 2010
A/Prof Richard Harvey, FRACS Fax + 612 9360 9919
Making Meetings More Effective
RACS –
Professional Development
This workshop explores the ten principles for
effective meetings and explores the roles and responsibilities of the chair and committee
members
7 credit points
Category 7
Sydney
7 August 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
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Location Contact details
Clinical Application
of PET/CT in Oncology
North Eastern Metropolitan
Integrated Cancer Service
(NEMICS)
- Description of PET/CT technology - Clinical application of PET/CT in diagnosis, staging and restaging of oncological disease - Accessing PET/CT for patients in regjonal Victoria
1 credit point
Category 4
Albury
6 August 2010
John Lawrence
Ph + 613 9496 3712 Fax + 613 9496 3898
Vertebral Body Replacement
(VBR) & Fracture Management in the
ThoracoLumbar Spine
Australian School of Advanced
Medicine
Overseas and local faculty surgeons with expertise in vertebral body replacement will present to the group on
their experiences. Topics will include radiation options prior
to surgery and surgery techniques
50 credit
points (5 pph)
Category 4
Macquarie University,
Sydney
30 – 31 July 2010
A/Prof Richard Appleyard [email protected]
SWAN XVIII Trauma
Conference
South Western Sydney Areas Health Service
Latest developments in the treatment of trauma care
14 credit
points
Category 4
Liverpool, NSW
30 – 31 July
2010
Dr Scott D’Amours, FRACS
Ph + 612 9828 3927 Fax + 612 9828 3926
Inaugural Australian
Emergency Surgery
Conference (IAESC)
Dept of Surgery Sydney West Area Health
Service, Nepean Hospital
The aims of the Conference are to introduce and discuss
specific aspects of emergency surgical care and delivery of emergency surgical services to the Australian population
15 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
22 – 23 July 2010
Prof Michael Cox Ph + 612 4734 2608 Fax + 612 4734 3432
LIA Preceptorship
Programme
DDB Remedy
The programme is designed
to enable attendees to observe and learn the Local
Infiltration Analgesia technique (LIA)
7 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
14 – 15 May 2010
11 – 12 June
2010
9 – 10 July 2010
Andrea Lobos Ph + 612 8260 2882 Fax + 612 8260 2982
LMT Surgical Foot & Ankle Scientific
Meeting
LMT Surgical
A forum for lectures and cadaver demonstrations outlining current and new
innovations in foot and ankle surgery
10 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
19 – 20 June 2010
Kerry Lawford
Ph + 617 3367 6600 Fax + 617 3367 6699
Triennial Best
Practice Workshop
Urology Oncology Program (NSW)
Triennial update of best practice in all aspects of
urological oncology
12 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
18 – 19 June 2010
Dr Andrew Richards, FRACS
Ph + 612 9043 2415 Fax + 612 9650 4175
4th Asia Pacific Knee Expert
Training Cadaveric Workshop
Australian School of Advanced
Medicine
Lectures and cadaveric workshop for knee
arthroplasty with navigation
30 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
29 May 2010
A/Prof Richard Appleyard
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
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Location Contact details
Medico-Legal Minefield 2010
MDA National Insurance
A series of forums to be held in major capital cities on the
medico-legal topic:
National Registration: Mandatory reporting of
colleagues and dealing with adverse events
2 credit points
Category 7
Sydney
24 & 27 May 2010
Jacinta Raad
Ph +612 9023 3315 Fax + 612 9460 8344
Articulate Live Hip and Knee
Arthroplasty Live Surgery Course
DePuy Johnson and Johnson
Medical
Aimed at Orthopaedic Surgeons, the course
specialises in elevating best practice in complex primary and revision hip and knee
arthroplasty.
34 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
17 – 20 May 2010
Claire Drew
Ph + 61 409 323 354 Fax + 612 9815 3711
2010 Bi-Annual Shoulder and
Elbow Society of Australia Closed
Conference
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Scientific and Research papers and workshops presented by leading Shoulder and Elbow
surgeons, specialists and international guest speakers
27 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
5 – 9 May 2010
Meghan Collier
Ph + 617 3366 2205 Fax + 617 3366 5170
Advancements in Rhinology: ‘Big
holes, small holes and nitric oxide
story’
St Vincent’s Hospital
This 1 hour lecture will cover inflammatory sinus disease, the use of nitric oxide as a
marker of mucosal health and appropriate surgical
interventions
1 credit point
Category 4
Sydney
3 May 2010
A/Prof Richard Harvey, FRACS Fax + 612 9360 9919
2010 Avant
Medico-Legal Forum
Avant Mutual Group Ltd
The forums aim to educate and inform Avant members on
current medico-legal issues
3 credit points
Category 7
Sydney
22 April 2010
Casey Mackay
Ph +613 9026 5978 Fax + 613 8673 5015
Laser ENT Course ASOHNS This course is aimed at ENT consultants and trainees with
a broad range of interests
16 credit points
Category 4
Thursday 1 April 2009
Mark Carmichael
Phone: +61 2 9954 5856 Fax: +61 2 9957 6863 [email protected]
Comprehensive Rhinology Course ASOHNS Workshop
8 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
31 March 2010
Mark Carmichael
Phone: +61 2 9954 5856 Fax: +61 2 9957 6863 [email protected]
ASOHNS Annual Scientific Meeting
2010 ASOHNS
Annual scientific meeting with a focus on current practices, treatments and techniques in the discipline of OHN surgery.
21 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
28 – 30 March 2010
Mark Carmichael
Phone: +61 2 9954 5856 Fax: +61 2 9957 6863 [email protected]
The Assessment of Permanent
Impairment of ENT in Australia
ASOHNS Workshop 4 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
27 March 2010
Mark Carmichael
Phone: +61 2 9954 5856 Fax: +61 2 9957 6863 [email protected]
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Location Contact details
BPPV: From Beginner to Expert
and Beyond: Theory and
Practice
ASOHNS Workshop 4 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
27 March 2010
Mark Carmichael
Phone: +61 2 9954 5856 Fax: +61 2 9957 6863 [email protected]
Sialendoscopy Workshop ASOHNS
This course is aimed at ENT consultants and trainees who
wish to either get an introduction to or gain further experience in sialendoscopy
6 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
27 March 2010
Mark Carmichael
Phone: +61 2 9954 5856 Fax: +61 2 9957 6863 [email protected]
Sustaining Your Business
RACS Professional Development
Dept
This workshop provides the foundation for the development and
implementation of business plans to sustain business growth and performance
20 credit points
Category 7
Sydney
26 – 28 March 2010
Ally Chen
Ph + 613 9249 1212 Fax + 613 9276 7432
Temporal Bone Workshop ASOHNS
An extensive non-dissectors programme running 2 days
has been devised, covering all aspects of otology.
15 credit points
Category 7
Sydney
26-27 March 2010
Mark Carmichael
Phone: +61 2 9954 5856 Fax: +61 2 9957 6863 [email protected]
AAFPS
Rhinoplasty and Lasers –
‘The Cutting Edge’
Australasian Academy of
Facial Plastic Surgery
Lectures and panel discussion on Rhinoplasty and Lasers
14 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
26 – 27 March 2010
Jayson Oates
Ph + 618 9382 4800 Fax: + 618 9382 4833
Occupational
Medicine Bridging Course for Surgeons
RACS
This Industrial Medicine program is designed for
specialist surgeons within Australia and New Zealand to
enhance return-to-work outcomes for patients with
musculoskeletal and surgical conditions
15 credit points
(5 points per hour)
Category 7
NSW
24 March 2010
Rebecca Clancy
Ph + 613 9276 7473 Fax + 613 9276 7432
Single Incision Laparoscopic
Surgery
Covidien
This master class is for educating surgeons already familiar with laparoscopic
surgical techniques
7 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne Adelaide Sydney
Brisbane
22 – 25 March 2010
Tracey King
Ph +612 8904 8009 Fax + 612 8904 8546
The Deteriorating Patient
Change Champions
Highlight Quality and safety initiatives on timely and
appropriate recognition of, and response to patients who
are at risk of clinical deterioration.
1 credit point per hour
Category 4
Sydney
11 – 12 March 2010
Char Weeks
Phone: +61 2 4963 5150 Fax: +61 2 4963 6656
Treating Adolescents – A Challenge in
Confidentiality and Consent
MIGA
90 minute interactive hypothetical as part of a half
day Risk Management conference being held across
2009 and 2010.
2 credit points
Category 7
Sydney
6 March 2010
Mr Mark Helier Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 14 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
12th Annual Health Congress Informa Australia
Three day gathering of health leaders who will collectively
discuss the national approach to health reform, and develop
strategies and solutions to manage health needs.
21 credit points
Category 7
Sydney
3 – 5 March 2010
Leah Dansie
Ph: +61 2 9080 4349 Fax: +61 2 9290 2577
Practice Made Perfect
RACS – Professional Development
A six hour workshop designed for both surgeons and their practice managers to build and consolidate a range of
skills essential for managing a surgical practice
6 credit points
Category 7
Sydney
3 March 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Open Structured Rhinoplasty Workshop
St Vincent’s Hospital
This course is aimed at practicing ENT and Plastic
Surgeons. Lectures, discussions, demonstrations
and dissection are all included in the programme.
8 credit points
Category 4
Darlinghurst
20 February 2010
A/Prof Richard Harvey Ph: +61 2 8382 6413 Fax: +61 2 8382 6402
Austrauma 2010 Austrauma Trauma conference involving workshops and forums.
1 credit point per hour
Category 4
Sydney
11 – 13 February 2010
Dr Valerie Malka
Phone: +61 3 9249 1139 Fax: +61 3 9276 7431
Definitive Surgical Trauma Care
Course (DSTC)
Liverpool Hospital Trauma
Department
Focus on surgical decision-making and operative
technique in critically ill trauma patients
17 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
8 – 9 Feb 2010
28-29 July 2010
Ms Sonia Gagliardi Fax+61 2 9828 3926
Endoscopic Orbital Workshop
St Vincent’s Hospital
This course is aimed at practicing ENT surgeons and
Ophthalmologists.
8 credit points
Category 4
Sydney
30 January 2010
A/Prof Richard Harvey FRACS
Phone: +61 2 9360 4811 Fax: +61 2 9360 9919
2010 Oculoplastic and Breast Symposium
Satellite Meeting
Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
Lectures by prominent Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
by satellite and in person.
14 credit points
Category 4
Kingscliff
15 – 17 January 2010
Mr Charles Betts
Phone: +61 2 9437 1901 Fax: +61 29437 9210
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 15 -
Queensland
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
Central QLD ENT Journal
Club
Central QLD ENT Club
Small Group Learning Activity
5 credit points
per hour
Category 4
Rockhampton
Monthly
Dr J F Malan FRACS Phone: +61 7 4927 3444
Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine
Australian Institute of Ultrasound
This course satisfies the requirements for both
the pre requisite physics and basic module for
the CCPU offered jointly by RACS/ASUM
32 credit points
Category
AIU Ultrasound Training Centre,
Gold Coast
Various
Tony Davies
Ph+61 7 5526 6655 [email protected]
Introduction to Ultrasound for
Surgeons
Australian Institute of Ultrasound
This course satisfies the requirements for both
the pre requisite physics and basic module for
the CCPU offered jointly by RACS/ASUM
20 credit points
Category 4
AIU Ultrasound Training Centre,
Gold Coast
Various
Tony Davies
Ph+61 7 5526 6655 [email protected]
2010 NSW &
QLD Combined Hand Surgery Conference
C/- Taylored Images
This conference will involve scientific and
research papers presented by leading
Hand Surgeons, specialists and
international guests
16 credit points
Category 4
Hamilton Island
18 – 21 November 2010
Lauren Born
(Taylored Images) Ph + 617 3366 2205 Fax + 617 3366 5170
Introductory
Course: Process Communication Model (PCM)
Kahler Communications
Oceania / RACS
Professional Development
Process Communication
Model (PCM) enables you to decode behaviour, to
understand underlying psychological
structures, to identify the onset of dysfunctional
behaviour and allows for constructive, supportive intervention inside and outside the operating
theatre
20 credit points
Category 7
Brisbane 17 – 19 Nov 2010
Merrily Smith
Ph + 613 9276 7441 [email protected]
Acute CT Interpretation Fundamentals
Lightbox Radiology Education
The aim of the course is
to teach accurate identification of the
fundamental features of normal and abnormal computed tomography
in the acute setting
7 credit points
Category 4
Noosa, QLD
13 – 14
November 2010
Linda Greenaway Fax + 617 30306 6660
2010 ASCTS Annual Scientific
Meeting
2010 ASCTS ASM
This conference will involve Scientific &
Research papers and workshops presented by leading heart surgeons,
specialists and international guest
speakers
15 credit points
Category 4
Great Barrier
Reef
4 - 7 November 2010
Meghan Collier Ph + 617 3366 2205 Fax + 617 3366 5170
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 16 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact details
QLD Statewide
Trauma Symposium
Royal Brisbane and Women’s
Hospital – Trauma Service
First day is dedicated to
pre-symposium workshops, free papers and a disaster response exercise. Second day
focuses on trauma management delivered by oral presentations and interactive panel
discussions
13 credit points
Category 4
Brisbane
4 – 5 November 2010
Kerena Grant
Ph + 617 3636 0864 Fax + 617 3636 0604
ANZSVS Annual
Scientific Meeting
Vascular 2010
Australian and New Zealand
Society for Vascular Surgery
Vascular 2010 aims to
examine and debate the emerging challenges of
vascular disease in Australia and New
Zealand and provide a vision for managing
vascular disease
15 credit points
Category 4
Gold Coast
4 – 5 October 2010
Amanda Richmond Ph + 613 9276 7414 Fax + 613 9249 1119
COGNO 3rd Annual
Scientific Meeting
Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro Oncology
(COGNO)
The Annual Scientific
Meeting the meeting will focus on future
treatments for glioma, the use of biomarkers,
and challenges in clinical
trials
7 credit points
Category 4
Coolum, QLD
2 - 3 October 2010
Rebecca Letson
Ph + 613 9246 1294 Fax + 613 9246 1293
Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
(NSA) ASM 2010
NSA NSA Annual Scientific Meeting
15 credit points
Category 4
Coolum
30 Sep – 2 Oct 2010
Stacie Gull
Phone: +61 3 9249 1294 Fax: +61 3 9249 1293
Ultrasound Techniques for
Breast Surgeons
Australian Institute of Ultrasound
This course satisfies the requirements for both
the pre requisite physics and basic module for
the CCPU offered jointly by RACS/ASUM
20 credit points
Category 4
AIU Ultrasound Training Centre,
Gold Coast
20 – 22 September 2010
Tony Davies
Ph+61 7 5526 6655 [email protected]
General
Surgeons Australia (GSA)
Annual Scientific Meeting
General Surgeons Australia
This conference enables General
Surgeons to discuss current issues involving
this year’s topic – Emergency Surgery:
The Cutting Edge
14 credit points
Queensland
17 – 19 September 2010
Emma Thompson
Ph +613 9249 1139 Fax + 613 9276 7431
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 17 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
Applied
Ultrasound for Breast and Endocrine Surgeons
- A Practical Workshop
RACS
Designed to enable Breast and Endocrine Surgeons to gain an
understanding of the role of ultrasound and its practical
application in the management of breast and endocrine
patients in daily practice. The course will include ultrasound
anatomy, pathology, and interventional techniques for surgeons managing breast,
thyroid and parathyroid disease
7 credit points
Category 4
Queensland
17 September 2010
Emma Thompson
Ph + 613 9249 1139 Fax + 613 9276 7431
2010 Surgical
Specialties Controversies
in Foot and Ankle Surgery Conference
c/- Taylored Images
This conference will involve scientific and research papers
as well as workshops presented by leading foot and
ankle surgeons, specialists and international guests
12 credit points
Category 4
Gold Coast, QLD
19 – 21 August 2010
Gosia Wisniewska Ph + 617 3366 2205 Fax + 617 3366 5170
Medico Legal Conference
AOA and RACS Medico Legal Committees
Presentations and workshops covering medico legal topics
16 credit
points
Category 7 Category 8
Gold Coast, QLD
13 – 15 August 2010
Brendan Dooley Fax: + 613 9416 0812 [email protected]
QLD Regional Committee and
QLD Health Annual State
Meeting
RACS Conference &
Events
An opportunity to be updated on major College business and on matters affecting surgery in
Queensland.
19 credit points
Category 4
Gold Coast, QLD
6 – 8 August 2010
Katie Fagan Ph + 613 9249 1139 Fax + 613 9276 7431
Medical Leadership in
Action Program
QLD Department of Health
This program provides participants with the
opportunity to undertake self-reflective learning and develop
the necessary leadership skills to assist them in delivering safe
and quality patient care, managing others
effectively and working toward continuous improvements in
service delivery
46 credit points
Category 7
Brisbane
20 & 23-26 July
13 December 2010
Megan Crethar
Ph + 617 3636 2052 Fax + 617 3636 6478
Head and
Neck Cadaver Dissection
Course
Department of
Otolaryngology, Head and Neck
Surgery University of
QLD and Princess
Alexandra Hospital
This 2 day course is composed of four sessions each including a series of lectures followed by cadaveric demonstrations and
supervised dissections
70 credit points
Category 4
QLD
2 – 3 July 2010
Prof William B Coman Ph + 617 3240 2431 Fax + 617 3240 2427
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 18 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
2010 QLD Australian
Orthopaedic Association
(AOA) Annual Meeting
QLD Australian Orthopaedic Association
(AOA) C/- Taylored
Images
Scientific and research papers presented by surgeons, specialists and scientists
7 credit points
Category 4
Noosa, QLD
11 – 13 June 2010
Meghan Collier
Taylored Images Ph + 617 3366 2205 Fax + 617 3366 5170
Medico-Legal
Minefield 2010
MDA National Insurance
A series of forums to be held in major capital cities on the
medico-legal topic:
National Registration: Mandatory reporting of
colleagues and dealing with adverse events
2 credit points
Category 7
Brisbane 2 June 2010
Jacinta Raad
Ph +612 9023 3315 Fax + 612 9460 8344
2010 Avant
Medico-Legal Forum
Avant Mutual Group Ltd
The forums aim to educate
and inform Avant members on current medico-legal issues
3 credit points
Category 7
Brisbane
27 April 2010
Casey Mackay
Ph +613 9026 5978 Fax + 613 8673 5015
Global
Postlaryngectomy Cadaver Demonstratio
n Course
The University of QLD, Dept of
Otolaryngology, Head and Neck
Surgery
Designed to improve on surgical technique, to use new
surgical techniques with the aid of cadaver dissection
demonstrations and to update knowledge on these
techniques
14 credit points
Category 4
QLD
19 – 20 April 2010
Prof William B Coman Ph + 617 3240 2431 Fax + 617 3240 2427
Management
of the Glenoid
Instructional Course
DePuy
This instructional course focuses on teaching delegates
how to expose and manage the glenoid and soft tissue in
shoulder replacement procedures
7 credit points
Category 4
Queensland
17 April 2010
Cassandra Stevenson Ph + 613 9902 1362 [email protected]
CPD
Workshop – Spine
Surgery
Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Issues covered include minimally invasive spine
surgery, biologics, reconstructive techniques for trauma and malignancy and
revision strategies
11 credit points
Category 4
Port Douglas, QLD
16 – 17 April 2010
Rebecca Letson
Ph + 613 9249 1294 Fax + 613 9249 1293
Anatomic
ACL Reconstruction using a
Single Tunnel
through an Anteromedial
Approach Workshop
DePuy
This cadaver workshop will focus on soft tissue
reconstruction techniques used in knee surgery
4 credit points
Category 4
Queensland
16 April 2010
Melissa Mason
Ph + 613 9902 1375 [email protected]
Ultrasound in Phlebology
Australian Institute of Ultrasound
This course satisfies the requirements for both the pre requisite physics and basic
module for the CCPU offered jointly by RACS/ASUM
20 credit points
Category 4
AIU Ultrasound Training
Centre, Gold Coast
22 – 24 March 2010
Tony Davies
Ph+61 7 5526 6655 [email protected]
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 19 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
Single
Incision Laparoscopi
c Surgery
Covidien
This master class is for educating surgeons already familiar with laparoscopic
surgical techniques
7 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne Adelaide Sydney
Brisbane
22 – 25 March 2010
Tracey King
Ph +612 8904 8009 Fax + 612 8904 8546
C4 Lap CR Brisbane -
Laparoscopic Colorectal
Surgical Course 2
Johnson & Johnson Medical
The three-day course is
conducted across 4 Brisbane hospitals. Participants will be encouraged to observe and
interact with the surgeons for all cases, typically 8-12
laparoscopically-assisted colorectal procedures over the
three day workshop. Day 1 includes a dinner meeting
where presentations on study results are given
26 credit points
Category 4
Brisbane
Various from 3 March 2010
Georgina Ng Ph + 612 9878 9000 Fax + 612 9805 0335
C4 Lap CR Brisbane -
Laparoscopic Colorectal
Surgical Course 1
Johnson & Johnson Medical
The three-day course is
conducted across 4 Brisbane hospitals. Participants will be encouraged to observe and
interact with the surgeons for all cases, typically 8-12
laparoscopically-assisted colorectal procedures over the
three day workshop. Day 1 includes a dinner meeting
where presentations on study results are given
22 credit points
Category 4
Brisbane
Various from 2 March 2010
Georgina Ng Ph + 612 9878 9000 Fax + 612 9805 0335
Treating Adolescents
– A Challenge in Confidentialit
y and Consent
MIGA
90 minute interactive hypothetical as part of a half
day Risk Management conference being held across
2009 and 2010
2 credit points
Category 7
Brisbane 13 February 2010
Mr Mark Helier Ph: +61 8 8238 4444 Fax: +61 8 8238 4445
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 20 -
Northern Territory
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
RACS SA, WA and NT Joint Annual
Scientific Meeting
RACS
Joint Annual Scientific Meeting includes the following themes:
- Pitfalls of dealing with indigenous health
- Trauma response - Disenfranchised surgeon
- Distance education – rural surgeons
7 credit points
Category 4
Darwin, NT
20 – 21 August 2010
Daniela Ciccarello
Ph + 618 8239 1000 Fax + 618 8267 3069
Polishing Presentation
Skills
RACS – Professional Development
Learn a step-by-step presentation planning process and practical tips
for delivering your message
6 credit points
Category 7
Darwin
26 March 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
South Australia
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact details
Lyell McEwin Orthopaedic Journal Club
Lyell McEwin Hospital
Small Group Learning Activity
5 credit points per hour
Category 4
Elizabeth Vale
Monthly 2010
Dr Paul Allcock
BreastScreen SA – Teaching
and Review Meetings
BreastScreen SA
A review of recent cases of particular interest or where
particular issues in diagnosis, treatment and management are raised. Development of assessment policy
and impact on surgical practice also
discussed
2 credit points (per meeting)
Category 4
Adelaide
3rd Tuesday of each month
Prof P G Gill, FRACS Ph + 618 8222 5516 Fax + 618 8222 5896
13th Advanced
Functional Endoscopic
Sinus Surgery Course
Dept ENT, The Queen
Elizabeth Hospital
Structured cadaver dissection based hands on course. Teaching anatomy
surgical skills, techniques,
management of complications to
avoid / minimise risks of adverse conditions
18 credit points
Category 4
25 – 27 November 2010
Professor PJ Wormald Ph +61 8 8222 7538
Fax + 61 8 8222 7419 [email protected]
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 21 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact details
2nd Adelaide
ES Management of
Vascular Injuries
Workshop
Dept ENT, The Queen
Elizabeth Hospital
Structured sheep model dissection hands on course,
teaching the surgical techniques required in a carotid artery event
40 credit points
Category 4
Adelaide
24 November 2010
Professor PJ Wormald Ph +61 8 8222 7538
Fax + 61 8 8222 7419 [email protected]
Surgical
Research Society 47th
Annual Meeting (Re-approval)
The Surgical Research Society
This course was previously approved
by RACS on 11 November 2009
7 credit points
Category 4
Adelaide
19 November 2010
Sue Pleass Ph + 61 8 8363 7513
C4 Lap CR
Perth – Laparoscopic
Colorectal Surgical Course
Johnson & Johnson
Medical Pty Ltd
Participants will be encouraged to
observe and interact with surgeons for all
cases, typically 5 – 10 laparoscopiscally-assisted colorectal
procedures over the two day workshop
16 credit points
Category 4
Adelaide
31 May – 1 June
20 – 21 September
15 – 16 November
2010
Georgina Ng Ph + 612 9878 9000 Fax + 612 9805 0335
University of
Adelaide Discipline of
Surgery Research
Dinner Meeting
The University of Adelaide Discipline of
Surgery
Presentations are made to update surgeons and
research fellows on the presenter’s latest developments and/or
findings on the research project they are undertaking (or have undertaken) in the field of surgical,
clinical and professional practice
2 credit points
Category 4
Adelaide
10 February
12 May
11 August
10 November 2010
Brooke Sivendra Ph + 618 8222 6852 Fax + 618 8222 6028
Surgical Sciences
Journal Club (Small Group
Learning)
University of Adelaide
Two journal articles are presented at each meeting followed by group discussion on the presented article and its applicability to surgical and clinical
practice
5 points per
hour (max 30 points)
Category 4
Adelaide
10 March 14 April 9 June 14 July
8 September 13 October 2010
Brooke Sivendra Ph + 618 8222 6852 Fax + 618 8222 6028
C4 Lap CR Adelaide –
Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgical Course
Johnson & Johnson
Medical Pty Ltd
Participants will be encouraged to
observe and interact with surgeons for all
cases, typically 5 – 10 laparascopically-
assisted colorectal procedures over the two day workshop
16 credit points
Category 4
Adelaide
31 May – 1 June
20 – 21 September
15 – 16 November
2010
Georgina Ng Ph + 612 9878 9000 Fax + 612 9805 0335
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 22 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact details
12th Annual Australasian
Gastro-Intestinal Trials
Group Scientific Meeting
Australasian Gastro-
Intestinal Trials Group
Lectures on current
management together with laboratory and
translational aspects of other
gastrointestinal malignancies will be presented. There will
be updates on the range of clinical trials being performed by the AGITG in many
types of gastrointestinal malignancies
26 credit points
Category 4
Adelaide
1 – 3 September 2010
Russell Conley Ph + 612 9562 5072 Fax + 612 9562 5348
2nd Adelaide Endoscopic Skull Base
Surgery Course
Dept of ENT, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Cadaver dissection based course
teaching anatomy, surgical skills techniques,
management of complications to avoid
/ minimise risks of adverse outcomes
22 credit points
Category 4
Adelaide
15 – 17 July 2010
Prof PJ Wormald, FRACS
Ph + 618 8222 7538 Fax + 618 8222 7419
Adelaide
Endoscopic Management of
Vascular Injuries
Workshop
Dept of ENT, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Teaching the surgical technique required in a carotid injury event. Includes discussion of
complications and how to avoid them
40 credit points (5pph)
Category 4
Adelaide
14 July 2010
Prof PJ Wormald, FRACS
Ph + 618 8222 7538 Fax + 618 8222 7419
Practice Made Perfect
RACS – Professional Development
A six hour workshop designed for both
surgeons and their practice managers to build and consolidate
a range of skills essential for
managing a surgical practice
6 credit points
Category 7
Adelaide
23 June 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
2010 Avant
Medico-Legal Forum
Avant Mutual Group Ltd
The forums aim to educate and inform Avant members on
current medico-legal issues
3 credit points
Category 7
Adelaide
26 May 2010
Casey Mackay
Ph +613 9026 5978 Fax + 613 8673 5015
Medico-Legal Minefield 2010
MDA National Insurance
A series of forums to be held in major
capital cities on the medico-legal topic:
National Registration: Mandatory reporting of colleagues and
dealing with adverse events
2 credit points
Category 7
Adelaide
11 May 2010
Jacinta Raad
Ph +612 9023 3315 Fax + 612 9460 8344
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 23 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact details
Team STEPPS Workshop
The Department of Health South
Australia
Evidence based teamwork and communication
programme developed by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and the Department of Defense
US.
18 credit points
Category 7
Adelaide
17 – 19 March
24 – 26 March
2010
Karen Stead Ph: +61 8 8226 6060 Fax: +61 8 8226 0125
Single Incision Laparoscopic
Surgery
Covidien
This master class is for educating surgeons already familiar with laparoscopic
surgical techniques
7 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne Adelaide Sydney
Brisbane
22 – 25 March 2010
Tracey King
Ph +612 8904 8009 Fax + 612 8904 8546
Australasian
Ponseti Method
Conference 2010
Queensland Conferencing &
Events
Detailed instructional course lectures and hands-on
practical sessions on the Ponseti Method
13 credit points
Category 4
Adelaide
26 – 27 February 2010
Rebecca Fielding
Ph + 617 3356 5804 Fax + 617 3356 7246 [email protected]
Medico-Legal Report Writing
Course
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Training course to target practitioners involved in the
process of writing or interpreting medico-legal
reports.
6 credit points
Category 7
Adelaide
13 February 2009
Andrew Messner
Phone: +61 2 9256 9602 Fax: +61 2 9247 8082
Tasmania
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
OSSANZ Conference Think Business Events
The conference is based on the theme ‘The Changing Shape of
Bariatrics’ and will explore current trends, issues, and
technologies in obesity surgery and allied health
19 credit
points
Category 4
Hobart
10 – 12 November 2010
Dani Palmieri
Ph + 613 9417 1350 Fax + 613 8610 2170
Tasmanian
Annual Scientific Meeting
Tasmanian State Committee
Annual Scientific Meeting – presentation of papers by surgeons and trainees
5 credit points
Category 4
Launceston
16 October 2010
Di Cornish
Ph + 613 6223 8848 Fax + 613 6223 5019
2010 CME Colorectal
Surgery Meeting
Colorectal Surgical
Society of Australia and New Zealand /
Section of Colorectal Surgery, RACS
Four sessions, over two and half days, of lectures and talks on a wide range
of colorectal topics
16 credit points
Category 4
Launceston, TAS
14 – 16 October 2010
Hung Nguyen Ph + 613 634 2242
Fax + 613 6334 2527 [email protected]
2010 Avant
Medico-Legal Forum
Avant Mutual Group Ltd
The forums aim to educate and inform Avant members
on current medico-legal issues
3 credit points
Category 7
Hobart 17 June 2010
Casey Mackay
Ph +613 9026 5978 Fax + 613 8673 5015
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 24 -
Victoria
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
Partnering for
Performance
Royal Australasian College of Medical
Practitioners (RACMA)
The training program is designed
for senior medical staff to support them implement
Partnering for performance. It will consist of a half day
interactive workshop for medical leads (medical directors, unit/department heads or
equivalent) and other relevant staff
4 credit points
Category 7
Victoria
Various Nov 2010 - March 2011
Dr Karen Owen Ph +613 9824 4699 Fax +613 9824 6806
Controversie
s in Neurosurgery Workshop
Royal Melbourne Hospital
International and local speakers are invited to discuss topics within their specialty area of
Neurosurgery and to concentrate in the controversial aspects of
the field.
15 credit
points
Category 4
Melbourne
18 & 19 November 2010
Dr Kate Drummond, MD, FRACS
Ph + 613 9342 8959 Fax + 613 9342 8231
Trauma
Committee Workshop – Alcohol &
Injury
RACS
This year’s workshop on Alcohol & Injury will investigate a major
health issue confronting the community today. The workshop will provide a healthy forum for debate from a broad range of
speakers
6 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
18 November 2010
Lyn Journeaux
Ph + 613 9276 7448 Fax + 613 9276 7432
Definitive Surgical Trauma
Care (DSTC)
Epworth Healthcare
This course focuses on surgical decision making and operative technique in critically ill trauma
patients. Insight given into difficult trauma situations and
ability to handle major thoracic, cardiac and abdominal injuries,
with specific emphasis on damage control
18 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
16 – 17
November 2010
Stacey Goad
Ph + 613 9936 8053 Fax + 613 9426 6764
Melbourne Advanced
Facial Anatomy
Course 2010
The Australasian
Society of Aesthetic Plastic
Surgeons (ASAPS)
Attendees learn facial aesthetic surgery and anatomy in detail and how to apply this safely
within their practice
14 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
12 – 13 November 2010
Sam Gulasi
Ph + 61 2 9437 0495 Fax + 61 2 9437 9609
Clinical
Oncological Society of Australia (COSA) Annual
Scientific Meeting
Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA)
The theme for this year’s
conference is ‘Cancer and Beyond’. It will focus not only on
state of the art diagnosis and management of cancer, but long
term issues both for survivors and carers, living with the legacy
of cancer and its aftermath
22 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
9 – 11 November 2010
Rhonda Cousins
Ph + 612 8063 4126 Fax + 612 8063 4101
Keeping Trainees on
Track
RACS - Professional Development
To train supervisors and trainers in encouraging self-directed
learning in trainees
3 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
7 October 2010
Alicia Mew
Ph + 613 9276 7440 Fax + 613 9276 7432
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 25 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
Preparation for Practice Workshop
RACS Professional Development
Focus is on practicality and experience provided by fellow
surgeons and consultant speakers on the essentials for
setting up private practice
13 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
25 – 26 September 2010
Ally Chen
Ph + 613 9249 1122 Fax + 613 9276 7432
Victorian Annual General Scientific
and Fellowship
Meeting
Victorian State Committee,
RACS
Title of the program for 2010 is “Back to the Future”; looking at surgery from the past, how we
see it today and what we expect from the future
14 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
10 – 12 September 2010
Denice Spence
Ph + 613 9249 1254 Fax + 613 9249 1256
Balancing
Emergency and Elective
Surgery
Change Champions
A practical introduction of the basic principles of strategic, tactical, and operational or
planning with a focus on both emergency and elective surgery.
Includes a master class and seminar
12 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
9 – 10 September 2010
Diane Beyrouthi
Ph + 612 9692 0533 Fax + 612 9518 6898
[email protected] [email protected]
Practice Made
Perfect
RACS – Professional Development
A six hour workshop designed for both surgeons and their practice
managers to build and consolidate a range of skills
essential for managing a surgical practice
6 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
8 September 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Medical Indemnity
Claims Case Study Forum
Victorian Managed Insurance Authority
The forum will provide information on surgical case studies, medico legal issues relating to the claims, system
failures, risk management
2 credit points
Category 7 Category 8
Melbourne
19 August 2010
Liz Cox
Ph + 613 9270 6900 Fax + 613 9270 6803 [email protected]
Clinical
Leadership Breakfast - Family
Involvement in Effective Healthcare
Victorian Managed Insurance Authority
Didactic presentation for gaining insight into better practices for
patient safety, risk management, patient and family centred care
1 credit point
Category 7
Melbourne
18 August 2010
Liz Cox
Ph + 613 9270 6900 Fax + 613 9270 6803 [email protected]
Process
Communication Model
(PCM): Keys to Me
Seminar
Kahler Communications
Oceania / RACS
Professional Development
PCM allows nurses, doctors, managers and staff to take
advantage of the differences between personalities, to
understand different ways of doing things, to deal with
situations and use the right techniques to communicate and
motivate others.
4 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
9 August 2010
Merrilyn Smith Ph + 613 9276 7441
Cadaver Workshop – Melbourne
Medtronic
The Cadaver Workshop is aimed at improving the surgeon’s ability to select appropriate patients for InterStim therapy and improve
their ability to implant the InterStim sytems (also known as
sacral nerve stimulation)
4 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
7 August 2010
Timothy Holwell Fax + 612 9887 3091
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 26 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit
Points Location Contact details
From the Flight Deck: Improving
Team Performance
RACS – Professional Development
The program combines
rigorous analysis of actual airline accidents and medical incident case
studies in order to learn more about human error
and how to improve individual and team
performance
12 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
30-31 July 2010
29-30 October 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Advanced Skin Technology Photography Masterclass
The Australian Society of
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
A master class on medical photography for plastic surgeons. Also covering
legal implications, responsibilities and
patient consent
7 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
31 July 2010
Sam Gulasi
Ph + 612 9437 0495 Fax + 612 9437 9609
Frontiers 2010
The Garnett Passe and
Rodney Williams Memorial
Foundation
The 7th biennial
conference hosted by The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams
Memorial Foundation. The main purpose of the
conference is to ‘bridge the gap’ between the advances in scientific research and clinical
medicine
13 credit
points
Category 4
Melbourne
28 – 30 July 2010
Wayne Daniels
Ph + 613 9419 0280 Fax + 613 9419 0282
Organ and
Donation and End of Life
Dinner
Northeast Health Wangaratta
The session will be aimed
at education regarding best practice for end of
life care. The session will look at identifying potential donors,
education on brain death, and brain death testing,
the organ and tissue donation process and communication with families of potential
donors
2 credit points
Category 4
Wangaratta, VIC
20 July 2010
Kristie Campbell
Ph + 613 5722 0323 [email protected]
Surgeons &
Administrators: Working
Together to Bridge the
Divide (Re-Approval)
RACS – Professional Development
A joint workshop with the Royal Australasian College of Medical
Administrators to explore better working
relationships between surgeons and administrators
6 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
16 July 2010
Merrilyn Smith Ph + 613 9276 7441
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 27 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
Making Meetings More Effective
RACS –
Professional Development
This workshop explores the ten principles for effective meetings and
explores the roles and responsibilities of the chair and committee members
7 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
26 June 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
3rd Postgraduate Course in
Endocrine Surgery
Endocrine Section, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Course highlighting thyroid cytology, diagnosis, techniques in surgery,
cancer management and parathyroid disease.
10 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
19 – 20 June 2010
Prof J W Serpell FRACS
Ph: +61 3 9076 3290 Fax: +61 3 9076 3902
Leadership in a Climate of Change
RACS – Professional Development
This 2 ½ day workshop can help participants to understand what it
takes to be an effective leader in the 21st century. It examines the nature
and practice of organisational leadership through the exploration of
issues such as organisational communication
18 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
18-20 June 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Start-Up Ultrasound
Workshop for F.A.S.T.
Ultrasound Training
Solutions Pty. Ltd.
Practical workshop covering the use of ultrasound in the application of
focussed assessment by Sonography for trauma.
8 credit points
Category 4
Ivanhoe
15 May 2 October
2010
Ms Oriana Tolo
Ph +61 418 506 878 Fax +61 3 9440 3339 [email protected]
Basic Course in Laparoscopic
Adjustable Gastric Banding
(Re-approval)
Monash University
12 credit points
Category 4
Victoria
28 – 29 May 2010
Prof Paul O’Brien, FRACS [email protected]
Risk Management:
Drafting a Consent
RACS – Professional Development
The workshop will help participants to understand the obligations on medical health providers in satisfying their duty
of care to disclose material risks to patients; also to appreciate the
benefits of good practice management for the medical practice of patients.
3 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
27 May 2010
Merrilyn Smith Phone: +61 3 9276 7441
Fax: +61 3 9276 7432 [email protected]
Medico-Legal Minefield 2010
MDA National Insurance
A series of forums to be held in major capital cities on the medico-legal
topic:
National Registration: Mandatory reporting of colleagues and dealing
with adverse events
2 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
13 May 2010
Jacinta Raad
Ph +612 9023 3315 Fax + 612 9460 8344
2010 Avant
Medico-Legal Forum
Avant Mutual Group Ltd
The forums aim to educate and inform
Avant members on current medico-legal issues
3 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne 12 May 2010
Casey Mackay
Ph +613 9026 5978 Fax + 613 8673 5015
Australasian
Thoracic Aortic Symposium
Austin Health
Didactic talks from internationally
renowned experts on every facet of thoracic aortic pathology and surgery
including latest research and techniques
15 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
9 – 10 April 2010
A/Prof George Matalanis,
FRACS Ph + 613 9496 5453 Fax + 613 9459 6220
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 28 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
Colorectal Cancer – A
Multidisciplinary Approach
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Educational update on current management of colorectal cancer.
12 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
25 – 26 March 2010
Lynn Orelli
Ph: +61 3 9656 3662 Fax: +61 3 9656 1611
Single Incision Laparoscopic
Surgery
Covidien This master class is for educating
surgeons already familiar with laparoscopic surgical techniques
7 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne Adelaide Sydney
Brisbane
22 – 25 March 2010
Tracey King
Ph +612 8904 8009 Fax + 612 8904 8546
Helping Hands:
Achieving Surgical
Excellence
John Crock Pty Ltd
Equipping training surgeons with the knowledge and skills to perform
hand / upper limb surgery with excellence
21 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
22, 25, 26 – 28 March
2010
Fiona Crock Ph + 613 9899 6144 Fax + 613 9899 6188 [email protected]
SET Selection
Interviewer Training –
Facilitator Course
RACS
This one day course is based on a train-the-trainer model whereby a
small number of specialty representatives undergo training to
deliver the course
6 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
20 March 2010
Ally Chen
Ph + 613 9249 1212 Fax + 613 9276 7432
Advances in Operative Fracture
Management
AO
Focus will be on two main themes: 1. The application of the principles
of fracture care outlined in the principles course
2. The current available evidence to support the treatments being
advocated
21 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
18 – 20 March 2010
Lucy Williams Ph + 612 9855 4603 Fax + 612 9855 4697
ASSET Director Workshop
RACS Skills Training
Dept
The course focuses on new
teaching techniques, managing poor performance candidates and faculty, workshopping common issues and refreshing director
processes
7 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
18 March 2010
Zoe Denner
Ph + 613 9249 1298 [email protected]
Inaugural
Australasian Clinical Networks
Conference
VIC Dept of Health
Conference Themes: - Establishing and maintaining effective networks - Evaluation and outcomes of clinical networks - Consumers as network participants and partners in improving care - Connected and collaborative work; how networks are contributing
17 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
17 – 19 March 2010
Shaun Brown
Ph + 613 9096 1327 [email protected]
Principles Course in Operative
Fracture Management
AO
This course covers the theoretical basis and subsequent treatment
principles of the operative management of the most common
human fractures
28 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
15 – 18 March 2010
Lucy Williams Ph + 612 9855 4603 Fax + 612 9855 4697
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 29 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact details
Communication Skills for Cancer
Clinicians
R.A.C.S. Professional Development
Four hour workshop focussing on developing evidence-based skills for delivering bad news to cancer
patients and families.
4 credit points
Category 7
Melbourne
13 March 2010
14 Nov 2010
Ally Chen
Phone: +61 3 9249 1212 Fax: +61 3 9276 7432
The meetings of
Biology and Synchrotron
Radiation (BSR) and Medical
Applications of Synchrotron
Radiation (MASR)
Biology and Synchrotron
Radiation (BSR) and medical
Applications of Synchrotron
Radiation (MASR
The 2010 meeting will host these two complementary conferences
for biological, biomedical and clinical researchers.
1 credit point per hour
Category 4
Southbank
15 – 18 February
2010
Dr Karen Siu Ph: +61 3 9905 4922 Fax: +61 3 9905 3637
14th Advanced Aesthetic Plastic
Surgery Workshop
Advanced Plastic Surgery
Education Foundation
Lectures and interactive discussion and sessions of problem case
solving.
18 credit points
Category 4
Southbank
11 – 14 February
2010
Mr Graeme Southwich OAM
FRACS Phone: +61 3 9508 9508
Fax; +61 3 9508 9588 [email protected]
Covidien Body
Contouring Masterclass
Program
The Australasian Society of Aesthetic
Plastic Surgery (ASAPS)
3 credit points
Category 4
Melbourne
11 February 2010
Colin Duggan
Ph + 612 9437 0495 Fax + 612 9437 9609
Western Australia
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact Details
Australasian
Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
Workshop
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
The workshop is designed to
teach minimally invasive approaches to mitral valve repair/replacement. The
workshop will include didactic lectures on day 1, followed by a human cadaver wetlab on
day 2
7 credit points
Category 4
Perth
21 – 22 November 2010
Dr Jurgen Passage, FRACS
Ph + 618 9346 2383 Fax + 618 9346 2344
C4 Lap CR Perth – Laparoscopic
Colorectal Surgical Course
Johnson & Johnson Medical
Pty Ltd
Participants will be encouraged to observe and interact with surgeons for all
cases, typically 5 – 10 laparoscopiscally-assisted
colorectal procedures over the three day workshop
24 credit points
Category 4
Perth
17 - 19 March
23 – 25 June
27 – 29 October
2010
Georgina Ng Ph + 612 9878 9000 Fax + 612 9805 0335
The 8th
Australasian Conference on
Safety and Quality in Health
Care
The Australasian Association for
Quality in Health Care
A premier event for those interested in quality and safety
in health care
19 credit points
Category 4
Perth
6 – 8 September
2010
Dr Annette Pantle
Ph + 617 5575 7045 Fax + 617 5575 7551 [email protected]
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 30 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact Details
Provincial
Surgeons of Australia (PSA)
Annual Scientific Conference
RACS
The conference enables rural surgeons to listen to lectures,
discuss issues and present free papers relating to specific
surgical situations faced by rural surgeons
4 credit points
Category 7
16 credit points
Category 4
Broome, WA
1 – 4 September 2010
Abbey Williams Ph + 613 9249 1200 Fax + 613 9276 7431
Core Skills: General Surgery
Trainee Workshop
CTEC
This workshop gives participants the opportunity to perform simulated procedures and new techniques on fresh
frozen cadavers (FFC)
14 credit points
Category 4
Perth
28 – 29 April
25 – 26 August
John Linehan Ph + 618 6488 8049 Fax + 618 6488 8045
Core Skills:
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Workshop
Clinical Training and Education Centre (CTEC), University of WA
This course gives participants access on fresh frozen
cadavers (FFC) to improve their surgical skills and knowledge of
anatomy
7 credit points
Category 4
Crawley, WA
8 July 2010
John Linehan
Ph + 618 6488 8049 Fax + 618 6488 8045
Medico-Legal Minefield 2010
MDA National Insurance
A series of forums to be held in major capital cities on the
medico-legal topic:
National Registration: Mandatory reporting of
colleagues and dealing with adverse events
2 credit points
Category 7
Perth
17 & 19 May 2010
Jacinta Raad
Ph +612 9023 3315 Fax + 612 9460 8344
Advanced Interventional
Skills Course in Pain
Management
CTEC
This course has been designed to train clinicians in the
implantation of neurostimulation devices
6 credit points
Category 4
Crawley, WA
8 May 2010
John Linehan
Ph + 618 6488 8049 Fax + 618 6488 8045
Risk
Management 101: Involving your patient
MDA National
This workshop will examine
issues of complaints and consider the benefits of involved and informed decision-making
with patients
2 credit points
Category 7
Perth
5 & 7 May 2010
Jacinta Raad Ph + 612 9023 3315
2010 Avant
Medico-Legal Forum
Avant Mutual Group Ltd
The forums aim to educate and
inform Avant members on current medico-legal issues
3 credit points
Category 7
Perth 5 May 2010
Casey Mackay
Ph +613 9026 5978 Fax + 613 8673 5015
Developing a Career in Academic
Surgery (DCAS)
Section of Academic Surgery
A one day course focussing on opportunities in Academic Surgery and pathways for
career development
8 Credit points
Category 7
Perth
3 May 2010
Richard Hanney, FRACS
Ph + 612 9625 3977 Fax + 612 9625 3634
Understand Your Patients Better:
Become Culturally
Competent
RACS –
Professional Development
Become familiar with the 8 most common communication styles and learn effective strategies to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds
3 credit points
Category 7
Perth
3 May 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 31 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact Details
Annual Scientific Congress 2010
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Annual Scientific Congress comprising
of master classes, workshops, plenary
sessions and scientific sessions including
lectures and presentations of original research.
1 credit point per hour
Category 4
Perth
3 – 7 May 2010
Mr Campbell Miles FRACS Phone: +61 3 9276 7276
Fax: +61 3 9276 7431 [email protected]
Vascular Surgery:
Anatomy of Advanced
Approach Skills Training Workshop
CTEC University of WA
To provide Vascular Surgeons with the
opportunity to perform the lesser used open
surgical approaches to expose arteries.
75 credit points (5 points per hr)
Category 4
Perth
3 – 4 May 2010
Dr Shirley Jansen
Ph + 618 9346 3333 Fax + 618 9346 2208
Polishing Presentation Skills
RACS – Professional Development
Learn a step-by-step presentation planning process and practical tips for delivering your
message
6 credit points
Category 7
Perth
3 May 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Neurotrauma for Rural Surgeons
RACS
These workshops aim to equip rural
surgeons with the skills to deal with
cases of neurotrauma in the rural setting
25 credit points
(5 points per hour)
Category 4
Perth
2 May 2010
Rebecca Clancy
Ph + 613 9276 7473 Fax + 613 9276 7432
Younger Fellows Forum 2010
RACS Professional Development
To acknowledge and
encourage the contribution of new
and Younger Fellows to the College and to provide an avenue for Younger Fellows to have a voice in the
College
17 credit points
Category 7
Perth
30 April – 2 May 2010
Ally Chen
Ph + 613 9249 1212 Fax + 613 9276 7432
6th Annual Error and Safety Workshop
(Re-approval)
Armadale and Bentley Health
Service
6 credit points
Category 7
Perth
31 March 2010
T. Anthony Taylor, FRACS [email protected]
Emergency Surgery Course
Clinical Training and Education Centre (CTEC)
This two day conference provides
surgeons and trainees with the opportunity to
acquire a range of skills to enable them to
function in remote areas on their own.
15 credit points
Category 4
Bunbury
27 – 28 February 2010
John Linehan
Ph: +61 8 6488 8049 Fax: +61 8 6488 8045
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 32 -
New Zealand
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact Details
Monthly Continuous
Medical Educational
Meeting
Otolarngologists of Lower central
North Island, New Zealand
Small Group Learning Activity
5 credit points per hour
Category 4
Palmerston North
Hospital, New Zealand
Monthly
Dr Dilhan Cabraal FRACS Phone: +64 6 353 1206
NZAPS Annual Scientific Meeting
NZ Association of Plastic Surgeons
Annual Scientific Meeting with 20 ‘free’ scientific papers and 6 invited scientific papers
over 2 days
8 credit points
Category 4
Auckland, NZ
27 – 28 November 2010
Mr Stanley Loo, FRACS
Ph + 64 21 513 752 [email protected]
2010 New
Zealand Hand Surgery Society
Conference
New Zealand Hand Surgery
Society
This conference will involve scientific and research papers by
leading Hand Surgeons, specialists and
international guest speakers
16 credit points
Category 4
Raratonga
28 September – 1 October 2010
Lauren Born
(Taylored Images) Ph + 617 3366 2205 Fax + 617 3366 5170
NZ Annual Scientific Meeting
Surgery 2010: Challenges in Acute Care
NZ National Board, RACS
This meeting will explore the current
situation in New Zealand for the delivery of acute surgical care in
rural through to metropolitan centres
11 credit points
Category 4
Queenstown, NZ
19 – 20 August 2010
Justine Peterson Ph + 64 4 385 8247 Fax + 64 4 385 8873
Perfusion
Downunder Winter Meeting
2010
Perfusion Downunder Pty
Ltd
Multidisciplinary Scientific meeting of
Cardiopulmonary bypass with specific focus on the team
approach to cardiac surgery involving
surgeons, anaesthetists, perfusionist
14 credit points
Category 4
Queenstown, NZ
5 – 8 August 2010
Bernardette Tackney Ph + 613 9799 7444 Fax + 613 9799 7111 [email protected]
Allergan
Volulmising Masterclass
The Australasian
Society of Aesthetic Plastic
Surgery (ASAPS)
Full day practical and didactic program
including demonstration of the Allergan product
portfolio
6 credit points
Category 4
Queenstown, NZ
31 July, 2010
Sam Gulasi
Ph + 612 9437 0495 Fax + 612 9437 9609
Mastering Difficult Clinical
Interactions
RACS –
Professional Development
Work through real life examples and generate appropriate responses and actions to reduce exposure in high risk
Doctor-Doctor interactions
5 credit points
Category 7
Wellington
23 July 2010
Ms Ally Chen Ph: +61 3 9249 1122
Looking to the
Future: A Practical
Meeting on the Breast
Australasian Society for
Beast Disease Ltd
A multidisciplinary educational activity
comprising an evening and 2 days of largely
interactive plenary sessions and workshops
plus an optional ultrasound workshop
12 credit points
Category 4
Auckland, NZ
8 – 10 July 2010
Solei Gibbs
Ph + 617 3847 1946 Fax + 617 3847 7563
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 33 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact Details
Trauma Conference
Learning and Leisure Pty Ltd
Trauma conference
including presentations, workshops, discussion
groups and case studies
16 credit points
Category 4
Queenstown, NZ
3 – 8 July 2010
Bron Chesterman
Ph + 618 8267 6660 Fax + 618 8267 6668
Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Course
Auckland Enhanced
Recovery after Surgery Group
A practical course on strategies to optimise surgical technique,
anaesthesia, nutrition and other aspects of perioperative care, in
order to enhance recovery and reduce morbidity after major
surgery
5 credit points
Category 4
Auckland
24 April 2010
Dr Sanket Srinivasa Ph +64 9276 0000
ISSLS Annual Meeting
International Society for the Study of the
Lumbar Spine
Meeting designed to bring together
contributions and research regarding the
lumbar spine.
25 credit points
Category 4
Auckland
13 – 17 April 2010
Dr Robert Moore
Spine Society of Australia Annual
Scientific Meeting
Spine Society of Australia
Presentation of original scientific papers relevant to clinical practice in the
area of spinal care
15 credit points
Category 4
Christchurch, NZ
9 – 11 April 2010
Dr Ralph Stanford Fax + 612 9650 4375
Advanced Wilderness Life
Support
Southland Wilderness Medicine
Group
The mission of AWLS is to create competence in medical professionals,
enabling them to prevent and effectively manage
emergency medical situations outside traditional medical
facilities.
16 credit points
Category 4
Queenstown
12 – 14 March 2010 16 – 18 July 2010
Dr Julian Speight FRACS Ph: 64 3 214 1588
NZAGS Annual
Scientific Meeting
NZ Association of General Surgeons
An annual scientific meeting for General
Surgeons in New Zealand
10 credit points
Category 4
Tauranga, NZ
26 – 28 March 2010
Lynda Booth
Ph + 64 9 917 3653 Fax + 64 9 917 3651
Tongariro
Cardiac Surgery Meeting 2010
Obex Medical Limited
The Tongariro Cardiac Surgery meeting is held annually and includes
participation by cardiac surgeons, cardiac
perfusionists, cardiac anaesthetists and
cardiac nursing staff
10 credit points
Category 7
Rotorua New Zealand
19 – 21 March 2010
Sarah Johnson Ph + 649 631 1392 Fax + 649 630 9009
Laser workshop
New Zealand Society of
Otolaryngology – Head and
Neck Surgery
Practical hands-on workshop.
4 credit points
Category 4
Auckland
7 March 2010
Ms Donna Clapham Ph: +64 9 917 3653 Fax: +64 9 917 3651
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 34 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points Location Contact Details
63rd Annual General and Scientific Meeting of the New Zealand
Society for Otolaryngology
New Zealand Society for
Otolaryngology
The theme for this meeting is ‘Practical ENT – Insights and Perspectives’ with the aim of
looking at all aspects of Otolaryngology from different
approaches.
18 credit pointy
Category 4
Paiha
2 – 5 March 2010
Donna Clapham
Phone: +64 9 917 3653 Fax: +64 9 917 3651
Vascular Society of New Zealand Meeting
Obex Medical Ltd
This is the annual Vascular Society of NZ meeting which runs over 3 days, comprising of lectures and presentations.
12 credit points
Category 4
New Plymouth
19 – 21 February 2010
Sarah Jonson
Phone: +64 9631 1392 Fax: +64 9630 9009
International
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
Spine - Master Symposium
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval granted 30
September 2009
28 credit points
Category 4
Davos,
Switzerland
13 - 17 December 2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Spine - The
degenerative lumber spine,
deformities and tumors
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval granted 30
September 2009
31 credit points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
13 - 17 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Spine - The
degenerative lumber spine and
spinal trauma
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval granted 30
September 2009
30 credit points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
13 - 17 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Spine - The
degenerative cervical spine, deformities and
tumors
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval granted 30
September 2009
31 credit points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
13 - 17 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Spine - The
degenerative cervical spine and
spinal trauma
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval granted 30
September 2009
32 credit points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
13 - 17 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 35 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
Trauma - Upper
Extremity (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
30 credit
points
Category 4
Davos,
Switzerland
12 - 17 December 2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Trauma - Lower Extremity (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
28 credit
points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
12 - 17 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Trauma -
Complications and Complex Fractures
(R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
28 credit
points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
12 - 17 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Trauma - Principles
in Operative Fracture
Management (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
34 credit
points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
12 - 17 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Trauma - Advances
in Operative Fracture
Management (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
36 credit
points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
12 - 17 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Trauma - Advanced
Course for Operative Fracture Management (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
36 credit
points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
12 - 17 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Trauma - Polytrauma (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
15 credit
points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
8 - 9 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
CMF - Principles in Craniomaxillofacial
Fracture Management (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
38 credit points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
4 - 9 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activities for 2010
- 36 -
Title Organisation Program Brief Credit Points
Location Contact details
Trauma - Swiss
Residents Course - Principles in
Operative Fracture Management (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
38 credit
points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
4 - 9 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Trauma - European
Masters (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
30 credit points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
4 - 9 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Trauma - Advances in the Management of Foot and Ankle
Surgery (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
34 credit points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
4 - 9 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Trauma - Fragility
Fractures and Orthogeriatric
Comanagement (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
24 credit points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
4 - 8 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
Trauma - Pediatric
Fracture Management (R)
AO Foundation
Re- approval. All these
courses have already been accredited by the Swiss
CME organizations. Previous RACS CME Approval
granted 30 September 2009
19 credit
points
Category 4
Davos, Switzerland
4 - 7 December
2010
Rita Cimenti
Ph + 41 44 200 24 36 Fax + 41 44 200 24 21
The Ross Summit The Ross Community
Application by a Fellow (Dr John Artrip).
Presentations and discussions regarding the
Ross procedure, technique of external pulmonary autograft root support.
19 credit
points
Category 4
Georgia, USA
15 – 16 October, 2010
Dr John Artrip
2010 Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy
Symposia
Cleveland Clinic
Foundation Centre for
Continuous Education
Application submitted by a Fellow of the College (Dr Warren Boling)
8 credit points
Category 4
3 Oct 2010
William Carey, MD,
Principles of Upper Limb Surgery Vakabouta
This program is a compilation of the best
teaching in the world on the management of upper limb
trauma and pathology.
30 credit points
Category 4
Fiji
January 6 – 19 2010
Mr John Crock FRACS
Phone: +61 3 9899 6144 Fax: +61 3 9899 6188 [email protected]
