Overview

Pre-Congress Workshops
Professional Skills Day, incorporating Trainee Stream
Adult Medicine Programs
Paediatrics & Child Health

Professional Skills Day

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The Professional Skills Day will be held on Monday, 12 May 2008 and will consist of a range of workshops that incorporate the key learning areas as outlined in the College’s Professional Qualities Curriculum http://www.racp.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=230C0787-E290-CFF6-6D5BB1783F231723. The broad areas of learning identified are:  Communications, Quality and Safety, Teaching and Safety, Cultural Competency, Ethics, Clinical Decision-Making, Leadership and Management, Health Advocacy and the Broader Context of Health.

Interactive Session: The New NPS Prescribing Initiatives – A Role for the RACP Session is an interactive session and delegates wanting to attend this session are requested to bring their own laptop. Laptops will require wireless capability. Places for this session are limited.

Trainee Workshops

A number of Trainee sessions will take place on Monday 12 May 2008. There will also be two RACP Trainee Research Awards – one for Adult Medicine finalists and one for Paediatric & Child Health finalists. The winners of each will be presented at the RACP 70th Anniversary Gala Dinner on the Monday evening.

The JD Cottrell Memorial Lecture

The JD Cottrell Memorial Lecture will be presented on the Professional Skills program.  The Lecture promotes the study of epidemiology and the social and community aspects of medicine.

JD Cottrell Memorial Lecture: Meeting the challenge of controlling iodine deficiency disorders in China and Tibet

Presented by Professor Creswell J. Eastman AM
MD.FRACP.FRCPA.FAFPHM

Professor Eastman is Clinical Professor of Medicine the University of Sydney and a Consultant Physician in Endocrinology at Westmead Private Hospital. He has directed major research and public health programs into Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) in Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, China and Tibet and South Pacific islands. From 1985 to 1992, he led a highly successful multi-million dollar Australian Overseas Aid project in China aimed at controlling IDD in rural Chinese populations. In 1997 he raised $1 million from international donors to establish a "National IDD Reference Laboratory" in China. He remains the Principal International Consultant on IDD control in China. He has consulted for WHO, UNICEF, World Bank and AusAID in the Asia Pacific region. In 1999, he undertook a feasibility study in Tibet, then developed and implemented a plan to eliminate IDD. The "Tibet IDD Elimination Project" has succeeded in virtually eliminating goitre in Tibetan children and preventing new cases of cretinism. He is Vice Chairman of the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) and Regional Coordinator for the Asia Pacific Region. He has been a recipient of the Asia Oceania Thyroid Association Otsuka Gold Medal and the "2006 AMA Award for Excellence in Healthcare".