The Organising Committee was pleased to offer the following pre-meeting workshops that provided delegates with stimulating and interactive learning opportunities.
Training Supervisors Workshop
Anatomy Workshop
Robotic Surgery in Gynaecology Workshop
PROMPT RANZCOG Workshop
Giving O and G Evidence: A Mock Court and Report Writing Workshop
Minimally Invasive Surgery – AGES
PSANZ Perinatal Mortality Workshop
RANZCOG Fetal Surveillance Education Program
The Urogynaecological Society of Australasia Inaugural Workshop and Nuchal Translucency First Trimester Ultrasound Half Day Update Course were held on Sunday 21 March 2010 in conjunction with the RANZCOG 2010 ASM. Please click on the links below for further information.
Urogynaecological Society of Australasia (UGSA) Workshop
First Trimester Ultrasound Half Day Update Course
Facilitators: Various
Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre
Cost: Diplomates Day 1 – A$360.00 Diplomates Day 2 – A$360.00
Includes: Morning and afternoon tea and lunch on day of attendance and Diplomates Cocktail Reception on Saturday 20 March 2010
The Diplomates Day program was prepared in consultation with the GP Obstetrics Advisory Committee and each day was tailored to meet the needs of RANZCOG Diplomates.
Saturday 20 March 2010
0900 – 1700 hours
Topics:
- Management of depression
- Vitamin deficiency in pregnancy
- Pre-conception counselling (testing and genetics)
- Nitty gritty of antenatal testing
- Prenatal diagnosis and all that hangs with it
- Hypertension in pregnancy
- Management of jaundice in the newborn
- Blood borne viruses in pregnancy
- Case presentations discussion session (2 hours)
Day two: Office Gynaecology
Sunday 21 March 2010
0830 – 1630 hours
Topics:
- Update on contraception (new pills, 3 day YAZ etc)
- Management of HRT
- Cervical screening
- Diagnosis/management of ectopic pregnancy
- Dyspareunia pelvic pain
- What’s new in incontinence – Conservative versus operative management
- Case presentations discussion session (2 hours)
TRAINING SUPERVISORS WORKSHOP
Sunday 21 March 2010
0900 – 1700 hours
Facilitators: Shaun McCarthy and Lyn Johnson
Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre
Cost: No cost for new and experienced Training Supervisors and Fellows looking to become Training Supervisors in near future
Includes: Morning and afternoon tea and lunch
This one-day workshop for new and experienced ITP/Elective and Subspecialty Training Supervisors focused on the supervisory role.
Participants looked at the practicalities of training, including:
- The learning objectives of assessment requirements of the RANZCOG Curriculum
- Formal and informal ways of giving constructive feedback
- Helping underperforming trainees
- RANZCOG training documentation and using it correctly (e.g. 3-monthly and 6-monthly assessments)
The workshop was interactive and includes discussions, videos and role plays.
RANZCOG Fellows who attended the workshop can claim 8 CPD (meeting) points.
ANATOMY WORKSHOP
Saturday 20 March 2010
1330 – 1700 hours
Facilitator: Chris Barry
Venue: University of Adelaide, School of Medical Sciences, Ray Last Laboratories, Anatomy Laboratory
Cost: A$360.00
Includes: Morning tea or afternoon tea
This half-day workshop comprised of a combination of didactic presentations and prosection-directed anatomical teaching to identify basic anatomy of the vulva, perineum and important landmarks of the internal pelvis for safe surgery. Participants received guidance for anatomical principles behind complex pelvic floor repairs. The clinical based workshop was complemented by video demonstration of landmarks.
ROBOTIC SURGERY IN GYNAECOLOGY WORKSHOP
Sunday 21 March 2010
1000 – 1500 hours
Facilitators: Martin K. Oehler, Tom Manolitsas and Kenneth Leong
Venue: Royal Adelaide Hospital, Robson Lecture Theatre and Operating Theatres
Cost: A$150.00
Includes: Lunch
The aim of the workshop was to familiarize gynaecologists with robotic surgery and to review current applications in gynaecology. There was a didactic session with lectures and videos followed by a hands-on experience with the DaVinci surgical system.
PROMPT RANZCOG WORKSHOP
Sunday 21 March 2010
0830 – 1230 hours
Facilitators: Tim Draycott and Cathy Winter
Venue: University of Adelaide, School of Medical Sciences, Ray Last Laboratories, Simulation Laboratory
Cost: A$360.00
Includes: Morning tea
Practical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training (PROMPT) provides a drill-based approach to training for obstetric emergencies, which has been associated with direct improvements in perinatal outcome in the United Kingdom and United States. This simulation workshop demonstrated some of the multi-professional team drills from the PROMPT course: shoulder dystocia, PPH and cord prolapse; using low cost props, high fidelity part-task trainers and standardized patients that provide environmental fidelity and team communication benefits. The PROMPT course Trainer’s Manual was used to illustrate how best to set up the drills; with standard equipment lists, drill scenarios, learning objectives and validated measurement tools for clinical and teamwork outcomes. Participants are able to set up obstetrics drills in their own units, in the most cost-effective manner.
GIVING O AND G EVIDENCE: A MOCK COURT AND REPORT WRITING WORKSHOP
Sunday 21 March 2010
1100 – 1600 hours
Presented by the Law Society of South Australia
Chairmen: Michael McEvoy and Graham Jobling
Venue: Sir Samuel Way Building
Cost: $A360.00
Includes: Lunch
Participants prepared a written report, based on a fictitious case, for either a plaintiff or defendant lawyer.
During the workshop participants delivered evidence in chief and were cross examined on their evidence by barristers in the setting of the beautiful yet daunting Samuel Way Building, the Supreme Court of South Australia. A supportive teaching approach was taken to add to the learning experience.
Evidence was videoed and participants were given an opportunity to review their performance immediately afterwards, in addition to being provided with a soft copy to keep.
The workshop was a great experience without the stress of the real thing and aimed to make all obstetricians and gynaecologists aware of choice of words in reports and court appearances.
MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY – AGES
Sunday 21 March 2010
0900 – 1230 hours
Facilitator: Elvis Seman
Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre
Cost: A$360.00
Includes: Morning tea
This workshop was be presented by members of Flinders Urogynaecology and Endogynaecology, and involved three complementary sessions. The first consisted of short didactic lectures on a clinical holistic approach to prolapse and incontinence. The second half consisted of practical video vignettes on a selection of pelvic floor procedures and the final session presented a series of cases for interactive discussion.
The aim of the panel was to refine the attendees’ clinical skills for prolapse management through a varied and interactive educational format.
PSANZ PERINATAL MORTALITY WORKSHOP
Sunday 21 March 2010
Registration from 11:30pm
Light lunch provided at 12:00pm
Workshop commences promptly at 12:30pm and concludes at 16:30
Facilitator: Janet Vaughan
Venue: Queen Victoria Auditorium, Level 1, Women’s & Children’s Hospital, King William Road, North Adelaide
Cost: A$150.00
Includes: Light lunch and afternoon tea
The Australia and New Zealand Stillbirth Alliance (ANZSA) and the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) Perinatal Mortality Group (PMG) perinatal education program teaches clinicians, obstetricians, gynaecologists, pathologists, midwives, and other health care professionals how to incorporate the PSANZ perinatal mortality guidelines into practice. By using the SCORPIO method the guidelines are adapted to six hands-on and dynamic rotating stations. Each station is based on a component of the guidelines: Perinatal mortality classification, investigation, autopsy consent, placenta and post mortem examination, baby examination, and perinatal mortality processes and documentation.
RANZCOG FETAL SURVEILLANCE EDUCATION PROGRAM
Sunday 21 March 2010
0830 – 1630 hours
Facilitator: Mark Beaves
Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre
Cost: A$360.00
Includes: Morning and afternoon tea and lunch
The RANZCOG Fetal Surveillance Education Program (FSEP) is committed to improving fetal surveillance by delivering clinical education to health professionals involved in intrapartum and antenatal care.
The FSEP is ultimately aiming to provide a cost-effective suite of products, targeted specifically to meet the learning needs of clinicians across Australia and New Zealand. Of equal importance is the need to address the risk management requirements of participating institutions in the area of fetal surveillance.
This workshop included case studies and discussion time and addresses:
- The physiology of fetal heart rate
- The normal CTG
- Maternal monitoring
- The complete clinical picture
- The abnormal CTG
- Interpretation
- Management
UROGYNAECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA (UGSA) WORKSHOP
Current controversies in Pelvic Floor Dysfunction: An Australasian Perspective
Sunday 21 March 2010
1000 – 1700 hours
Facilitators: Various
Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre
Standard Registration Cost: A$250.00 (inc. GST)
Allied Health Registration Cost: A200.00 (inc. GST)
Includes: Morning and afternoon tea and lunch
The inaugural workshop of the Urogynaecological Society of Australasia (UGSA) was aimed at all nurses, physiotherapists, obstetricians and gynaecologists and urologists with an interest in female pelvic floor dysfunction. The full day workshop included a variety of didactic lectures, case presentations, videos and free-abstract presentations covering all aspects of female pelvic floor dysfunction. A pelvic floor and continence workshop showcasing what is world’s best clinical practice by presenting “cutting edge” rigorous research and peer reviewed management of complex urogynaecological conditions. A day spent being quickly bought up to date by Australia’s leading clinicians and researchers in the field of urogynaecology.
FIRST TRIMESTER ULTRASOUND: HALF DAY UPDATE COURSE
Sunday 21 March 2010
1300 – 1700 hours
Facilitators: Various
Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre
Cost: A$250.00
Includes: Afternoon tea
Ultrasound is an essential component of modern obstetric care. It is therefore an important requirement that personnel performing the first trimester scan are properly trained and that high standards are maintained by continuing education and audit. The certification in the first trimester scan was open to all those involved in obstetric ultrasound, including obstetricians, radiologists, sonographers, midwives and genetic counsellors.