Rural and remote general practitioners are commonly faced with a number of medical scenarios which requires them to be multi skilled. Rural and remote general practitioners must also learn to work with often limited support, supplies and equipment, particularly in a town without a hospital. Furthermore, paediatric care can be very challenging and unpredictable.

The aim of the workshop is to provide rural doctors with cross domain, team based learning opportunities. The workshop will use a variety of teaching methods such as interactive lectures and procedural skills stations related to Paediatrics.

Learning Objectives

1. Demonstrate safe and effective basic paediatric airway management – including ability to intubate if required in an emergency.
2. Demonstrate neonatal resuscitation and paediatric basic life support using Australasian Resuscitation Council guidelines.
3. Perform intraosseous needle insertion safely and effectively.
4. Discuss the initial presentation of the critically ill child using an ABCD approach.
5. Identify paediatric wheeze emergency presentations.
6. Explain paediatric seizure emergency presentation
7. Discuss paediatric DKA emergency presentation
8. Discuss paediatric fever emergency presentations
9. Discuss assessment and management of acute and chronic abdominal pain in children - including indications for ED and paediatric outpatient referral
10. Identify head and cspine injuries
11. Discuss paediatric laceration emergency presentations
12. Discuss common paediatric fracture emergency presentations
13. Identify common neonate emergency presentation including crying baby, feeding and jaundice

CPD & CME

RACGP:

7 Educational Activity hours

4 Reviewing Performance

1 Measuring Outcomes

ACRRM:

5.5 Educational Activity hours

5 Performance Review hours

1 Measuring Outcome hours

Rural Procedural Training Grant
ACRRM: 1 day Emergency Medicine

RACGP: 1 day Emergency Medicine


Presenters
The lead presenter for this this workshop is Dr Kate Bassett. Kate is a paediatric emergency specialist currently working in Paediatric Emergency at The Prince Charles Hospital. She also works in adult emergency medicine at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Emergency and Trauma Centre.

She is a convenor of the Queensland Paediatric Fellowship Program and assists with delivery of the CRuSE course aswell as Health workforce Queensland Emergency and trauma courses. She also works part time for a private insurance company consulting on their clients who become unwell overseas.

Kate was a physiotherapist before medical school and has taken a less than conventional path through her training years. She started off at a paediatric hospital but changed to emergency medicine to fit better around her family. She has ended up doing paediatric emergency which suits her well. During her training, she has worked as a medical student tutor at both University of Queensland and Bond University.

Kate has an interest in integrating the spectrum of doctor education from the first year of medical school right through to Primaries, Fellowship and into Consultant training. She is also interested in supporting young doctors who have families or other commitments that make a traditional pathway challenging.

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