GPSA run a series of evening webinars on a monthly basis. The webinars are always presented by an expert in the topic and mainly by GP Supervisors. GPSA record the webinars for those who are unable to attend on the night and these are available below and on the GPSA You Tube Channel.
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| Link | Title | Summary | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Introduction to GP supervision | This webinar will provide straight-forward answers to simple questions about becoming a GP supervisor such as: Where do I start? What do I need to know? What do I need to do? | Dr Simon Morgan Dr Tony Saltis |
| Best Practice Supervision: A Refresher | This webinar will provide an overview of best practice supervision in the general practice setting. The roles and tasks of the GP supervisor will be explored, and practical tips for effective, high quality and sustainable supervision. | Dr Simon Morgan Dr Kevin Arlett |
| Tips for new supervisors | This webinar contains practical tips, information and resources to support the new GP supervisor and the team | Dr Bruce Willett |
| Supervising IMGs – GPSA guide | This webinar aims to assist GP supervisors to better support IMG GP registrars training in their practices. It is based on the newly published GPSA guide. | Dr Simon Morgan |
| Supervising IMGs – Common challenges | Dr George Zaharias explains some of the common challenges experienced by IMG registrars engaged in the Australian general practice setting and how GP supervisors can help your registrar identify and navigate them. | Dr George Zaharias |
| Communication and IMGs | This webinar discusses some of the challenges and solutions to supervising overseas trained doctors. | Dr Rebecca Stewart |
| Supervision of registrars undertaking teleconsultations | An overview of teleconsultation supervision approaches, specific actions and initiatives, and how to use technology for three way consults | Dr James Brown Dr Paul Dilena |
| Improve safety with a ‘Call for help’ list | How to utilise the ‘Call for Help’ list to provide clear instructions for registrars on when to call for help, alongside being used as a tool to monitor a registrar’s safety and progress throughout a placement. | Dr Gerard Ingham Dr Kayty Plastow |
| Stress and your registrar | This webinar will provide you with an understanding of the different strategies you can employ as a GP Supervisor with your GP Registrar to weather a career in general practice safely and sustainably. | Dr Caroline Johnson |
| Registrars at risk | Identifying and Supporting GP Registrars at Risk can present the most challenging and rewarding times for a GP supervisor. Here GP supervisor Dr Konrad Kangru explains the key to identifying and supporting registrars at risk effectively. | Dr Konrad Kangru |
| Risks of after hours on call | This webinar seeks to explore and address the issues identified for both doctors working in after-hours environments and their GP Supervisors. | Dr Genevieve Yates |
| Supervisors in difficulty | An informative webinar for Identifying and Supporting GP Supervisors in difficulty in a variety of situations and discussion on appropriate responses | Dr Denise Findlay |
| Link | Title | Summary | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Improving the learning environment | This webinar explains 6 key elements of a quality learning environment, accompanied by tools and guidance on how to implement these in your practice. | Dr Michael Baker Dr Gerard Connors |
| Structuring teaching & learning | Many GP training practices integrate education horizontally (between a multidisciplinary team) and vertically between (medical students through to the GP supervisors themselves). Here GP supervisor Dr Sam Heard describes the concept and its practical application in his practice | Dr Sam Heard |
| Planning learning | This webinar addresses the critical task of helping registrars plan their learning. It will cover the scope of possible learning needs, both known and unknown, and the tools that supervisors can use to help identify them. | Dr Ed Poliness Dr Simon Morgan |
| Focusing a registrar’s learning | Vanessa Lynn of RACGP and Lynn Saul of ACRRM present on the standards, assessments and checkpoints in a registrar’s journey | Vanessa Lynn Lynn Saul |
| Formal teaching | This webinar addresses the ‘how to’ aspect of practice-based teaching, focussing on the range of teaching methods and their utility. It highlights a new framework for effective problem case discussion | Dr Tony Saltis Dr Simon Morgan |
| In-practice teaching | This webinar explores alternative approaches to in-practice teaching to enhance GP Registrars’ understanding of the GP domains, whilst exploring the populations, presentations and processes in General Practice. | Dr Rebecca Stewart |
| In-practice teaching | This webinar covers concepts such as ‘what to teach’ and ‘how to teach it’. | Dr Simon Morgan |
| Random case analysis | The various clinical supervision options available to a supervisor are explored, looking at their strengths and weaknesses. A framework for random case analysis is presented that has been found to frequently reveal patient safety concerns. | Dr Gerard Ingham Dr Simon Morgan |
| Ad hoc and informal teaching | This webinar will provide supervisors with skills in identifying teaching opportunities and in turning ad hoc (corridor) encounters into a valuable teaching and learning experiences. | Dr Helen Mullner Dr Penny Need |
| “Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach” Teaching and Learning in General Practice | This webinar focuses on the key elements of the teacher role – helping the learner identify their learning needs, delivering high quality teaching, and fostering a ‘culture of learning’ in the practice. | Dr Simon Morgan |
| Link | Title | Summary | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consultation analysis and feedback | This webinar discusses some of the consultation model structures, how to analyse consultations and, in turn, how to provide developmental feedback to GP registrars around their consultations. | Dr Simon Hay |
| Giving feedback | This webinar discusses feedback in a variety of situations that require effective feedback to be delivered, strategies available to deal with almost any learner and situation and how to understand which feedback strategy will suit which situation best. | Dr Konrad Kangru |
| Assessing the reflective practitioner | Reflective practice is crucial in continuous development and re-assessment of skills when working in health care. This webinar brings a fresh exploration of how you can integrate reflective practice into the teaching and assessment you conduct with your registrar. | Dr Peter Harris |
| Observing your registrar: Refine your skills | This webinar details different ways of observation, the consultation observation tool, the most common consulting errors, and feedback on a consultation. | Dr Andy Morgan |
| Telehealth Consultations – Assessment | Learn how to assess registrars performing telehealth consultations, discuss the role and methods of in-practice formative assessment, and adapt other formative assessment methods to the telehealth consultation. | Dr Simon Morgan |
| Performance management | This webinar is practical and all about highlighting the things that can be done to ensure a healthier, happier, more productive working environment within the business of general practice. | Riwka Hagen |
| Link | Title | Summary | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic pain | This presentation will give your registrars an understanding of chronic pain management, including the development of a patient-centred, goal-directed plan, using a shared decision-making approach. | Dr Merissa Cappetta. |
| Addiction medicine | Join Dr Paul Grinzi in this webinar video to hear about common registrar blind spots and challenges with identifying and managing patients with addiction. He also has some useful tips to teach registrars how to navigate addiction medicine effectively. | Dr Paul Grinzi |
| Advance care planning | This presentation will assist GP supervisors to teach registrars their role in advance care planning and how to support their patients in the process. | Dr Chris Moy and Helena Rodi |
| Behavioural Issues in children | This webinar will discuss behavioural problems and common developmental behavioural problems in children from toddlers to primary schoolers including diagnosis, management and when to refer. | Dr Aaron Chambers |
| Childhood trauma | This webinar gives an overview on what to teach your registrar about identifying and treating patients with a history of childhood trauma. | Dr Louise Stone Dr May Su |
| Coeliac disease | General Practitioners play a critical role in the diagnosis and management of coeliac disease, ensure your registrar knows how to do this. | Dr Jason Tye-Din |
| Common infections – 1 | This webinar aims to assist GP supervisors to better support their registrars assessing and managing presentations of common infections, including skin and soft tissue and UTI and provide links to key resources. | Prof Josh Davis Dr Simon Morgan |
| Common infections – 2 | This webinar aims to assist GP supervisors to better support their registrars assessing and managing presentations of common infections, including respiratory and GI infections. It will also focus on antimicrobial stewardship, evidence-based practice and provide links to key resources. | Prof Josh Davis Dr Simon Morgan |
| Contraception | This webinar will give supervisors a practical update on recent developments in the field, highlight the most up to date resources available, look at the current evidence relevant to the Australian setting, and enable supervisors to assist their registrars deliver optimal contraception advice. | Dr Sally Sweeney |
| COPD medicines | This webinar discusses common learning/teaching challenges with respect to COPD medicines and inhalers, how to navigate them, and what key resources are available to help teach your registrar. | Dr Simon Morgan Jane London |
| Dementia care | This webinar will assist you the GP Supervisor in teaching your GP registrar how to identify dementia with great certainty as well as how to deliver a diagnosis of dementia. | Dr Marita Long Dr David Knowles Dr Hilton Koppe |
| Dementia management | Dementia is increasing in our ageing population. It is important that we can prepare ourselves and our registrars to better understand, diagnose and manage dementia. | Dr Marita Long Dr David Knowles Dr Hilton Koppe |
| Advanced dementia | Presenters discuss strategies for teaching your registrar to manage Stage 3 (Advanced) Dementia. | Dr Marita Long Dr Duncan Howard Dr Hilton Koppe |
| Dermatological problems | This webinar aims to assist GP supervisors to better support their registrars assessing and managing dermatological presentations. | Dr Neil Macpherson |
| Domestic violence | Understand how to support registrars in managing domestic violence – make sure your registrars know how to ask patients about domestic violence, how to respond to a disclosure, how to safely plan and refer, and how to manage with the whole family. | Dr Jennifer Neil |
| Endometriosis | Ensure your registrar gains an understanding of the current diagnostic criteria, epidemiology, and presentation patterns. They can describe appropriate investigations, management pathways, and referral criteria for tertiary management. | A/Prof M. Louise Hull |
| HIV AIDS | This webinar explores how to ensure your registrar is providing the best level of care with respect to HIV AIDS, including its testing, treatment, and prevention. | Dr Andrew Mahony |
| Mental health | This webinar looks at how to teach registrars about managing mental health conditions, including creating simple and useful mental health plans, useful tools to use for common presentations, and how to make it work financially. | Dr Susan Barnett |
| Obese and overweight patients | This webinar will discuss the strategies for successfully managing obesity in general practice, and how you can support your registrar to develop confidence in this area. | Dr Alison Lancey |
| Prenatal screening | This webinar covers what’s new in preconception and antenatal care, with a focus on genetics and reproductive carrier screening. | Dr Caitlin Forwood Kirsten Boggs |
| STI management | In this webinar, Dr Sally Sweeney looks at assisting registrars in gaining the skills required to take an effective and adequate sexual history, order appropriate screening tests, and manage common STIs. | Dr Sally Sweeney |
| Workers Compensation | Demystifies some of the issues surrounding Worker Compensation, giving you a tool box to understand why the process is important to all parties. | Dr Craig Barnett |
| Young people and depression | GP registrars are likely to have had very limited experience in assessing and managing depression and anxiety disorders in young people during their hospital training, and the GP supervisor can play a key role in increasing their skills. | Dr Claudio Villella |
| Link | Title | Summary | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical reasoning | In this webinar, we discuss some of the fascinating background to clinical reasoning in general practice before playing a round of the game as a group. We highlight its utility in generating a differential diagnosis and managing uncertainty in practice. | Dr Susan Tyler-Freer Dr Claudia Long |
| Chronic disease management – Time based health assessment | Understand how to teach your registrar about time-based health assessments and chronic disease management including the medicare requirements for a health assessment, eligibility of patients, step-by-tep requirements to complete one with your registrar. | Dr Merran Auland Jane Calligeros RN |
| Chronic disease management – MBS items | What is chronic disease management? – Medicare and documentation. | Dr Merran Auland Jane Calligeros RN |
| Chronic disease management – Complete a care plan | What is a care plan? – Medicare and documentation. | Dr Merran Auland Jane Calligeros RN |
| Managing uncertainty | If there is one certainty in general practice, it is the inherent presence of uncertainty. Undifferentiated presentations are common in primary care and a firm diagnosis is elusive in many encounters. This webinar helps you to teach how to manage uncertainty. | Dr Simon Morgan Dr Justin Coleman |
| Mandatory reporting | Explore a range of real medico-legal cases where the mandatory reporting path was unclear and help define what circumstances warrant reporting | Gayle Peres da Costa |
| Medico-legal matters | This webinar will identify the medicolegal risks experienced by GP supervisors in private practice and how to navigate them better than the case files explored with participants. | Gayle Peres da Costa |
| Patient boundaries | Medical practices should be a safe place for both staff and patients. This webinar focuses on helping registrars identify and manage inappropriate patient behaviour and requests and looks at the risks of dual relationships and why registrars are particularly vulnerable. | Dr Genevieve Yates |
| Prescribing | Prescribing is often thought of as simply the act of writing a script, but in fact is a highly complex and high-risk intervention that requires satisfactory competence. This session is all about the how and the why of prescribing and deprescribing and how to teach it effectively. | Dr Justin Coleman |
| Professional and Ethical practice | This presentation aims to support supervisors to identify, assess, and facilitate development of skills in professional and ethical practice in their registrars. It covers a range of practical strategies for supervisors to use for teaching and learning professionalism in the general practice setting. | Dr Simon Morgan Dr Justin Coleman |
| Telehealth Consultations – How to conduct them | Learn about the different types of telehealth, medicare changes, ePrescribing, the telehealth process, suggested steps and how to conduct an effective and efficient consultation. | Dr Amandeep Hansra |
| Conducting Consultations | In this webinar, Dr Ron Roth explores what makes a consultation successful and presents a framework underlying an effective and efficient consultation that can be taught to your registrars. | Dr Ron Roth |
| Consultation analysis and feedback | This webinar discusses some of the consultation model structures, how to analyse consultations and, in turn, how to provide developmental feedback to GP registrars around their consultations. | Dr Simon Hay |
| Observing your registrar: Refine your skills | This webinar details different ways of observation, the consultation observation tool, the most common consulting errors, and feedback on a consultation. | Dr Andy Morgan |
| Teaching Consultation Skills | This webinar highlights the critical importance of an effective general practice consultations. It touches on consultation models and discusses key consultation skills. | Dr Simon Morgan and Dr Jess Wrigley |
| Link | Title | Summary | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health | How to use the GPSA Guide to teaching and learning on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. | Dr Keith Gleeson Dr Tim Senior |
| Teaching Your Registrar About Best Practice Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health – Part 1 | Discussing how to teach your registrar to be culturally safe working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients | Dr Karen Nicholls Dr Simon Morgan |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients – Telehealth | This webinar details tips to provide better care when undertaking telehealth consultations with persons who may identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. | Dr John Kelly |
| Behavioural Issues in children | This webinar will discuss behavioural problems and common developmental behavioural problems in children from toddlers to primary schoolers including diagnosis, management and when to refer. | Dr Aaron Chambers |
| Disability care | This webinar will help you to describe the complex needs of the disabled community, understand how to support your registrar to take a specific and comprehensive history and perform an appropriate examination, and how to generally support the registrar to provide high quality healthcare to the disabled community in general practice and group home setting. | Dr Alison Lancey |
| LGBTQIA+ inclusive healthcare | This webinar aims to support GP supervisors in their teaching and supervision of registrars who are providing medical services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary, queer, intersex, asexual and other (LGBTQIA+) patients in general practice. | Dr Ruth McNair Dr Asiel Adan Sanchez |
| Men’s health | This webinar will enable supervisors to assist their registrars in dealing with general Men’s Health issues and better engage with Men and their health. | Dr Ravin Sadhai Dr Justin Coleman. |
| Nursing home residents | This webinar will help you to describe the most common clinical issues presenting to registrars in the RACF setting, how to work effectively in such a setting, and the knowledge and skills needed in administrative, organisational, and medicolegal aspects of practice. | Dr Julie Mallinson |
| Veteran’s health | This webinar aims to support you in identifying the many things you can teach your registrar about caring for veterans. | Dr Kerry Summerscales |
| Young people and depression | GP registrars are likely to have had very limited experience in assessing and managing depression and anxiety disorders in young people during their hospital training, and the GP supervisor can play a key role in increasing their skills. | Dr Claudio Villella |
| Link | Title | Summary | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment success | This webinar will introduce you to the Applied Knowledge (AK)and the Key Feature Problem (KFP) tests as well as discussing common pass rates, common challenges/mistakes and, specifically, what can be done with your registrar to give them the greatest chance of success in their RACGP written assessments. | Dr Robin Park Dr Gary Butler |
| CCE examinations | The Clinical Competency Exam (CCE) is the final exam on the pathway to Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP). The CCE is a new exam for the 2021.2 cycle and replaces the long-standing Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE), and the interim Remote Clinical Exam (RCE). In this video Dr Gary Butler and Dr Rebecca Lock give a thorough explanation of the CCE and answer common questions. | Dr Gary Butler Dr Rebecca Lock |
| Exam failure | It is relatively common for a GP registrar to fail one (or more) of the component/s of the RACGP Fellowship exam. Understandably, registrars often turn to their practice supervisors for advice and support if this occurs. On-the-ground supervisors are well placed to provide support to their registrars following an exam failure. Having a better understanding of the processes will assist you to do this effectively. | Dr Genevieve Yates |
| StAMPS assessment preparation | In this webinar, Dr Ralph Chapman goes through the StAMPS assessment process, and how to prepare your registrar for their exam. | Dr Ralph Chapman |
| Clinical examination preparation | This video provides some practical advice for GP Supervisors on preparing your registrar for clinical examinations. | Dr Simon Morgan |
| Link | Title | Summary | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACRRM Flexible Funds | ACRRM outline their plans for their flexible funds. | Kyra Moss David York Sandra Johanson |
| ACRRM College led training | Learn how ACRRM will be implementing changes under college-led training and keeping supervision at the heart of their model. | Kyra Moss Dr Greg Gladman Dr Emily Moody |
| DoHAC Update | National Consistent Payments (NCP) and Flexible Funding for GP Training | Martin Rocks |
| Before the registrar starts | An experienced practice manager and GP supervisor break down all the top tasks, forms, tips, and tricks to undertake before and after the registrar starts. | Dr Gordon Walling and Majella Beagley |
| GPSA resources | GP Supervisors Australia has developed a wide range of educational resources to assist supervisors in their role. This webinar focuses on how to make the most of the educational resources with tips and ideas for using them in teaching activities. | Dr Justin Coleman |
| Life Hacks and Self Care | Learn how to apply science-backed self-management tools, monitor your wellbeing, and practical ways to contribute to a happier and healthier workplace. | Margo Field |
| Navigating Services Australia’s PRODA/HPOS Systems | This webinar with Services Australia and Department of Health and Aged Care is relevant for all practices and supervisors engaged in GP training under the AGPT program in 2023, and is current as at 23rd December 2022. | Paul Slater Ilee Orn Evelyn David-Hoole |
| Preparing the Practice for 2023 | This webinar will reassure and inform practice managers about the processes for 2023 | Georgina Van De Water Ellen Mills Debbie Forsdike Trish Johnston Martin Rocks |
| Practice wellbeing | Learn about practice wellbeing and leading from the front during a crisis. | Dr Nicole Higgins Mr Gary Smith Dr Krystyna De Lange Dr Ashley Bloomfield |
| Shared debt risk | GP registrars commence in their first term of training often with no prior experience in billing Medicare. This webinar will provide supervisors and practice managers with a practical outline of the rules that must be taught to your registrars and the consequences via the new Shared Debt Recovery rules of your registrar getting it wrong. | Gae Nuttal Nerissa Ferrie |
| RACGP college led training | Provides details on how the RACGP are planning to return training to the college and how it affects you and new and existing GP registrars | Georgina Van De Water Dr James Brown Glen Wallace |
| RACGP’s PEP | Discussion on the features and benefits of the RACGP’s Practice Experience Program. | Dr Genevieve Yates Mr Gilbert Hennequin |
| ReCEnt project | This webinar aims to inform supervisors about the findings of the ReCEnT project and how they can be used to enhance the education and training experience of registrars. | Prof Parker Magin |
| Link | Title | Summary | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACRRM: The Future of GP Training | Learn how ACRRM will be implementing changes under college-led training and keeping supervision at the heart of their model. | Kyra Moss Dr Greg Gladman ME Dr Emily Moody |
| ACRRM and RACGP on the transition to college led training | The transition to college-led training on February 1st 2023 is fast approaching. What will GP training look like for supervisors and practices from that point on? | Kyra Moss Glen Wallace Dr Karin Jodlowski‑Tan Dr Gerard Ingham Dr Nicole Higgins Carla Taylor |
| The future of GP training with RACGP | This presentation provides details on how the RACGP are planning to return training to the college and support our profession and communities and how it affects you and new and existing GP registrars. Burning issues are discussed such as practice agreements and supports, supervisor CPD, registrar selection and placement, and more. | Georgina Van De Water, Associate Professor James Brown and Glen Wallace. |
| GPSA resources | GP Supervisors Australia has developed a wide range of educational resources to assist supervisors in their role. This webinar focuses on how to make the most of the educational resources with tips and ideas for using them in teaching activities. | Dr Justin Coleman |
| Life Hacks and Self Care | Learn how to apply science-backed self-management tools, monitor your wellbeing, and practical ways to contribute to a happier and healthier workplace. | Margo Field |
| NTCER update | This webinar is practical and all about highlighting the things that can (and have) gone wrong – and how to prevent them from happening at your practice. | Glen Wallace |
| Practice wellbeing | Learn about practice wellbeing and leading from the front during a crisis. | Dr Nicole Higgins Mr Gary Smith Dr Krystyna De Lange Dr Ashley Bloomfield |
| RACGP’s PEP | Discussion on the features and benefits of the RACGP’s Practice Experience Program. | Dr Genevieve Yates Mr Gilbert Hennequin |
| ReCEnt project | This webinar aims to inform supervisors about the findings of the ReCEnT project and how they can be used to enhance the education and training experience of registrars. | Prof Parker Magin |
Date reviewed: 20 January 2023
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