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Programme for Thursday 24 July

GP25: Conference for general practice - CME workshop day has been approved for up to 7 credits.

These credits have been assigned to the Medical Education category for all registered attendees enrolled in Te Whanake. You will have the ability to reassign some or all of these credits to other learning categories to align with your learning goals.

Workshops
8.30am - 9.30am
Ingrown toe nail wedge excision workshop (60mins)
Dr Luke Bradford
8.30am - 9.30am
Capacity Assessment: a practical session (60mins)
Prof Ngaire Kerse
8.30am - 9.30am
Hands on practice to perfect your technique for visualizing the eardrum. Try new tools: Video otoscopy, manual otoscopy, and measure your own middle ear pressure and mobility with tympanometry (60mins)
Lesleigh Smith
8.30am - 9.30am
Joint injections (60mins)
Dr Alex Lee

9.00am - 3.00pm

New Zealand Resuscitation Council (NZRC) CORE Immediate Adult and Child Course

This course is designed for the rescuer who would be expected to manage the early stages of a resuscitation event. This is an assessed course and at the end of the day you will be assessed on practical components taught on this course. For further information follow this link
This course covers:

  • Adult, child and infant collapse management plan
  • Use of an AED
  • Management of airway obstruction and breathing
  • Scenarios on both adult and child/infant collapse

Note: there is a limit of 12 for this course.

9.00am - 5.00pm

NZCSRH Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Train-the-Trainer workshop

This full-day workshop is designed to equip clinicians with the skills and confidence to effectively train others in the provision of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), including contraceptive implants and intrauterine devices (IUDs). Participants will develop their teaching and assessment skills to support competency-based LARC training in clinical settings.
This workshop covers:

  • Best practices in LARC insertion and removal techniques
  • Teaching methods for clinical skills training
  • Assessment frameworks for ensuring competency and safety
9.45am - 11.15am
“Testing, testing 1, 2, 3” – Rational test ordering in general practice (90mins)
Dr Simon Morgan
9.45am - 11.45am
The How’s of Early Detection of Melanoma in Primary Care - NZSCD (120mins)
Dr Chris Boberg
9.45am - 11.45am
GP Access to MRI: Optimizing Musculoskeletal Injury Management – Improving direct MRI referrals, reducing wait times, enhancing referral quality, and addressing health equity to streamline musculoskeletal care in primary healthcare settings. (120mins)
Dr Akshey Shukla, Dr Robyn Barnes, Jeremy McTear
9.45am - 10.45am
Joint injections (60mins) 
REPEAT
Dr Alex Lee
11.00am - 12.00pm
Making the invisible, visible: Sorting out new clinical challenges arising from access to funded continuous glucose monitoring (60mins)
Dr Helen Lunt
11.30am - 12.30pm
Lunch
12.30pm - 2.00pm
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Applications in Musculoskeletal Conditions: An Introduction to Orthobiologics and Regenerative Medicine – Practical Application for General Practitioners (90mins) 
Dr Zaid Matti
12.30pm - 2.30pm
The How’s of Early Detection of Melanoma in Primary Care - NZSCD (120mins) REPEAT
Dr Chris Boberg
12.30pm - 3.30pm
Learning how to use effective physiological explanations for persistent physical symptoms (somatisation, functional illness and chronic pain) (180mins) 
A/Prof Hamish Wilson, Dr Zoe Hart
12.30pm - 2.00pm
ADHD medication management across the lifespan - comparing the different medications, titrating dose, changing from one medication to another, ongoing monitoring, dose adjustment childhood to adulthood and in old age, deprescribing (90mins)
Dr David Codyre, Dr David Chinn
New Zealand Resuscitation Council (NZRC) CORE Immediate Adult and Child Course continuedNZCSRH Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Train-the-Trainer workshop continued
2.15pm - 3.45pm
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Applications in Musculoskeletal Conditions: An Introduction to Orthobiologics and Regenerative Medicine – Practical Application for General Practitioners (90mins) REPEAT
Dr Zaid Matti
2.45pm - 3.45pm
Capacity Assessment: a practical session (60mins) REPEAT
Prof Ngaire Kerse
3.45pm - 4.45pm
Hands on practice to perfect your technique for visualizing the eardrum. Try new tools: Video otoscopy, manual otoscopy, and measure your own middle ear pressure and mobility with tympanometry (60mins) REPEAT
Lesleigh Smith
2.15pm - 3.15pm
Making the invisible, visible: Sorting out new clinical challenges arising from access to funded continuous glucose monitoring (60mins) REPEAT
Dr Helen Lunt
4.00pm - 5.00pm
Ingrown toe nail wedge excision workshop (60mins) REPEAT
Dr Luke Bradford
3.30pm - 5.00pm
ADHD medication management across the lifespan - comparing the different medications, titrating dose, changing from one medication to another, ongoing monitoring, dose adjustment childhood to adulthood and in old age, deprescribing (90mins)
Dr David Codyre, Dr David Chinn