Please express
your interest in attending a one day workshop on Saturday 25th March 2017 on
how to deliver Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs).
If we can generate
sufficient interest, the workshop will be hosted at MCHRI and conducted in
collaboration with the Australian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM).
Doctors, allied health practitioners,
ancillary staff and researchers interested in new models of patient care will
benefit from attending. 40 Category 1 points will be available for GPs
and allied health CPD points should be available to most other practitioners.
The workshop
price is expected to be $440 (inc gst) and includes one year of follow up which
is especially relevant for those wishing to be registered as trained in the
ASLM SMA protocol.
If
you are interested, please email to josphin.johnson@monash.edu .
More information below:
Traditionally, medical
consultations have been carried out in a 1:1 situation; an ‘expert’ (doctor)
consulting with one patient. This has served us well, and still does with
injuries and infectious diseases. But the rise in chronic diseases with the
modernisation of society has dramatically altered the clinical landscape.
Also known as ‘Group
Visits’ or ‘Group Medical Appointments’ in the US, an SMA is, “A series of
consecutive individual medical consultations in a supportive group setting
where all can listen, interact, and learn.” As such an SMA is a both an
individual consultation and a group education session.
The minimal ‘team’ for
an SMA is a doctor and a trained facilitator. In an SMA, the doctor carries out
his/her doctoring, but with other patients watching. The facilitator
introduces the group, writes records and questions on a board, assists the
doctor with information, controls the group dynamics, and in some cases writes
the medical records.
Read the full article
at http://lifestylemedicine.org.au/content/the-doctor-will-see-you-all-now/
Watch a video of an
SMA in action at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tiCU0t5zc
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