Uro-West General Practice Conference 2019

Date
11 May 2019
08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Cost
Free
Available to
General Practitioners
Continuing Professional Development

CPD Points unavailable

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Event Location
The Australian Events Centre
Hyatt Place Melbourne, 1 Larkin Blvd
ESSENDON FIELDS VIC 3041
Australia

Uro-West is the inaugural Western Health urology conference for GPs. Designed to be highly GP-relevant, hands on and interactive, this free and catered event explores the practical understanding and management of functional Urology.

The inaugural Uro-West General Practice Conference 2019 is here! Hosted by the Western Health Urology Department in collaboration with North Western Melbourne PHN. GP attendees can expect: 
 

  1. Up-to-date information on best practice in functional urology
  2. Practical skills workshops on incontinence management, pelvic floor therapies and catheterization skills 
Topics
  • Making sense of urinary symptoms in women | Dr Janice Cheng 
  • Managing female urinary incontinence and overactive bladder | Dr Johan Gani
  • Understanding recent controversies in mesh devices | Prof Helen O’Connell
  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia management | Mr Conrad Bishop, Mr Justin Chee and Mr Daniel Steiner
  • Imaging and results interpretation in LUTS
Workshops
  • Catheterisation up-skilling
  • Incontinence products and practical incontinence management
  • Pelvic floor therapies and bladder retraining

QI&CPD Points
Category 1 (40 points) and Category 2 (12 points) have been applied for. 

Learning outcomes:

  • Develop an evidence-based approach to the assessment, investigation and management of female urinary incontinence and overactive bladder, and list the optimal treatment regimens that should be offered to patients who have neurological causes for their symptoms or who are frail
  • Investigate transvaginal vaginal mesh controversies and develop an approach to counselling women with incontinence or prolapse about safe, non-transvaginal mesh options
  • Develop an evidence-based approach to the assessment, investigation, pharmacological and surgical management of men with benign prostatic hyperplasia
  • Demonstrate urological medicine clinical skills including simulation of male urethral catheterisation, non-pharmacological management of incontinence and counselling about incontinence products, pelvic floor exercises and bladder training
  • Outline the principles of rational test ordering and test interpretation when investigating a patient with lower urinary tract symptoms

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