Recently Marie Rauter, a paediatrician at the Royal Hobart Hospital, presented a webinar to some of our first year registrars on “Developmental Delay”. It’s a big topic, but an important one for general practice, as we are often in a perfect position to detect developmental delay early and identify the cause, suggest corrective action, or refer for further assessment, services and support. Marie covered a wide range of presentations and considerations. We’re sharing one of the cases with you today.
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In this recording, Vishal Arya, an RVTS ME, speaks about access to health care, particularly for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
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Exams are the performance of your life that will make or break your future. The months leading up to the exam are essential to gathering facts and knowledge and forming good habits. The weeks leading up to the exam are essential to prepare mentally. On the day of the exam, you need to focus like an elite performer. But too often, anxiety gets in the way of performing at your best. How can you negate the negative effects of anxiety so that you can be free to shine on exam day?
RVTS Medical Educators will be presenting several sessions at this year’s conference in Cairnes - this is a sneak peak of what will be discussed
“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 Tasmania. He was discipline lead in emergency medicine at the University of Tasmania until 2017 and has authored numerous textbooks and papers relating to emergency medicine. Geoff outlines potential serious causes of syncopal episodes, as well as dealing with the uncertainty of unknown causes of collapse.
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. The consultations were then spoken in English, followed by insightful discussions. Sonia speaks about the lessons learned:
In this webinar excerpt, John Kelly talks about cardiovascular risk