Medical education for GP’s

Education sessions held at Mercy Hospital for Women and Werribee Mercy Hospital may attract Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, quality improvement and continuing professional development points.

Upcoming education activities:

Wednesday 4th December 2024 6pm Online

Neonatology @ Twilight
Mercy Perinatal is thrilled that Professor Brett Manley has joined the team as our inaugural Professor and Director of Neonatal Research at Mercy Hospital for Women. So we are handing our December Twilight over to Newborn Care. Stay tuned for a brilliant program.
Register here

Werribee Mercy Hospital Grand Round
Werribee Mercy hospital invites all medical professionals to join our weekly Grand Round sessions online every Thursday from 12.30-1.30pm

Please follow the link and use the password:
Upcoming sessions:

Previous recorded education activities:

Please ensure to log the watched sessions via RACGP to gain CPD points.

Genetics – Reproductive Carrier Screening
Everything you need know about reproductive carrier screening. The deference between MBS screening and other screening options. As well as ordering the test, providing your patients with information about inheritance and when further partner testing is required.
View the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHrmmp4tNeQ

Gynaecology – Menopause & Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
The Menopause & Heavy Menstrual Bleeding webinar is to provide an interactive and informative update on management of the symptomatic menopausal patients and women with heavy menstrual bleeding.

Email [email protected] to request the recording link.

Gynaecology – Pelvic Pain and Ovarian Cysts
The pelvic pain and ovarian cysts webinar is aiming to provide an interactive and informative update on management of persistent pelvic pain and ovarian cysts.
Email [email protected] to request the recording link.

Mental Health – Informed Consent, Psychopharmacology and Pregnancy
The Mercy Hospital for Women Perinatal Mental Health department will educate GP’s on the principles about prescribing psychotropic medication in pregnancy and during breast feeding.
View the recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6YbmI3n-zs

Shared Maternity Care Collaborative Workshop 2023
Mercy Health hosted the Shared Maternity Care Collaborative Workshop in late 2023.

Shared Maternity Care Collaborative Workshop 2023: Session 1
Presentation 1: Early antenatal care. Identifying the higher risk pregnancy.
Dr Sarah McClusky, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist JKWC, Sunshine Hospital
Presentation 2: Problems in the Third Trimester
Dr Ekaterina Jovic, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Specialist, Northern Health

Shared Maternity Care Collaborative Workshop 2023: Session 2
Presentation 1: Prenatal screening and NIPT – what is the current standard of care?
A/Prof Lisa Hui, University of Melbourne, Mercy Hospital for Women, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Northern Health.
Presentation 2: Modes of Delivery. Is there such a thing as a normal birth?
Dr Vicki Carson, The Royal Women’s Hospital, Frances Perry House.

Mercy Perinatal – Obesity in Pregnancy @ Twilight
Our twilight sessions are not RACGP accredited.
Presentation 1: Pre pregnancy care, medical complications, weight-inclusive maternity care
Prof Leonie Calloway

Presentation 2: Pregnancy care in women with obesity: perspectives from the coalface
Prof Glyn Teale
Presentation 3: The challenges of operative vaginal delivery and caesarean section in women with obesity
Dr Sebastian Hobson
View the recording; the password to access the recording is Twilight

Mercy Perinatal – Expecting the unexpected @ Twilight
Our twilight sessions are not RACGP accredited.
Presentation 1: Cancer in Pregnancy
Dr Belinda Yeo
Presentation 2: The surgical abdomen in pregnancy and post partum
Dr David Proud
Presentation 3: Trauma in pregnancy and the role of the Resuscitative Hysterotomy
Dr David Camilleri
View the recording; the password to access the recording is Twilight

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