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EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2020
Grand Rounds
Professional multidisciplinary education for doctors, GPs and allied health staff featured renowned specialists presenting on a range of topics at
two face-to-face Grand Rounds events and at our first remote Grand Rounds.
With almost 90 AMOs, nursing and hospital staff registered, the online Grand Rounds was based in the MDT Conference Room and focused on ‘The Social Distancing COVID patient’ with discussion points around how to manage a COVID-19 patient, treatment options and social impacts of family and friends.
Medical Updates for Health Professionals
As part of our ongoing commitment to professional development among our local medical community, many of our Accredited Specialists participated in AHCL’s Medical Updates for GPs and physiotherapists throughout the year, sharing insights into
new treatment approaches and technologies to keep our local GPs and allied practitioners up to date and enabling them to deliver better care to their patients.
Due to COVID, these have been held as online webinars since early 2020 and have been well attended by local GPs, while also attracting new audiences throughout NSW.
Overall more than 830 AHCL staff and community healthcare workers participated in education programs through San Education in 2019/20.
San College of Education temporarily paused operating between March and July due to the COVID crisis, during which time staff focused on transitioning to online education courses and packages which they hope to make available progressively in the next few years.
First Aid is now being delivered using a blended approach of online learning via webinar with minimal face-to-face time, CPR training can now be delivered fully online via Zoom, and Anaphylaxis training is also being delivered online for some clients. The Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE40116) is also now being delivered via Zoom – all of which is a significant change for both our educators and our learners.
Presenting at our first remote Grand Rounds
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