Become an
ASLM Registered SMA Practitioner or Facilitator by attending the Shared
Medical Appointments (SMAs) workshop and follow-up assessment on Saturday
13th May 2017, 9.30am-4pm.
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.
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.
Those
interested please register on the following website
The cost to
attend is $385 for non-members and $330 for members
The workshop
will be hosted at Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI)
and conducted in collaboration with the Australian Society of Lifestyle
Medicine (ASLM). The workshop is especially relevant for those wishing to be
registered as trained in the ASLM SMA protocol.
If you have any
queries, please email to MCHRI-SMA@monash.edu
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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