This resource is intended to support you to successfully navigate your transition to Advanced Training and prepare for unsupervised practice as a Specialist Physician. It’s a 'one-stop shop' that you can return to if you ever want to find a useful resource, or need a refresher on the supporting resources, policies and systems available to you.
- Transition to Advanced Training
- Training and assessment
- Trainee support
- Specialty-specific resources
- Looking ahead
Alcohol Use Disorder is a diagnosis which is common in many populations and also one in which, in the past, there have been markedly divergent opinions on management. This resource aims to build capability and medical leadership in the treatment of this problem.
- Alcohol epidemiology, pharmacology and genetics
- Tolerance, withdrawal and intoxication
- Alcohol-related harm and health effects
- Treatment and management
Alcohol, anxiety and mood disorders are common clinical problems. This resource assists Addiction Medicine practitioners to increase their skills and knowledge in these areas.
- Classification and diagnosis
- Comorbidity and its impact
- Psychological and pharmacological management
- Alcohol, bipolar disorder and suicide
Supporting the provision of culturally competent and culturally safe, best practice medicine for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori patients through reflection on the physician’s own cultural values and recognition of their influence on professional practice.
- Introduction to Cultural Competence and Cultural Safety
- Applying Cultural Competence and Cultural Safety Frameworks
- Indigenous Context
- What's Next?
Starting your training journey with the RACP? This resource brings together the key information you need to get started and make the most of your training.
- Progressing through Basic Training
- Program structure, curriculum, assessment and timelines
- RACP learning, support, tools and resources
- Wellbeing, career planning and transition to Advanced Training
Gain an in-depth understanding of the process, context, and responsibilities involved in interviewing overseas-trained physicians (OTPs) in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Background and regulations
- The OTP journey and interview preparation
- Conducting the interview and completing the report
- Post-interview support and resources
Gain an in-depth understanding of the process, context, and responsibilities involved in interviewing overseas-trained physicians (OTPs) in Australia.
- Transition to Advanced Training
- Background and regulations
- The OTP journey and interview preparation
- Conducting the interview and completing the report
- Post-interview support and resources
This resource explores the clinical effects of cannabis use and introduces key screening and assessment tools, with practical application through a case study.
- Introduction to cannabis use
- Clinical effects of cannabis use
- Screening and assessment
- Applying knowledge through case studies
This online course supports Basic Training programs in meeting accreditation standards. It has been designed to help you meet your respective training program requirements and covers the Capacity to Train process, completing the Self-Assessment Form and key messages.
- Capacity to Train overview
- Completing the Self-Assessment Form
- Accreditation requirements and key messages
- Applying the Capacity to Train process
Equip yourself with the knowledge you need to better identify, assess and manage chronic breathlessness in advanced illness, across a range of conditions and clinical settings.
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Assessment and history-taking
- Breathlessness in different conditions
- Communication, end-of-life care and clinical decision-making
This resource helps supervisors build a baseline ethics capacity in physicians and improve their ability to teach and assess clinical ethics capabilities in their trainees.
- Recognising an ethical issue
- Peer review in clinical ethics
- Building clinical ethics capacity in physician trainees
- Clinical ethics services
Developing an understanding of communications is important in a range of work and clinical scenarios. This resource addresses areas such as self-image, self-esteem, self-talk; and offers advice on external communication skills and why they are important in different situations such as with a patient, or a colleague.
- Internal Communications
- External Communications
- Performance Feedback for Positive Change
The Communication Skills online resource is a self-directed resource covering communication skills and frameworks to help you work through everyday conversations you will have as a physician.
- Key communication skills – active listening, non-verbal communication
- Communication frameworks – ISBAR, NURSE, SPIKES
- Gathering information – patient cues, approaches to questioning
- Providing information – managing challenging interactions with patients, use of interpreters
This resource is intended to be used primarily by Addiction Medicine specialists and trainees, who recognise that mental health issues are common amongst patients presenting to specialist Drug and Alcohol treatment settings.
- Identifying comorbidities
- Empathetic listening
- “No wrong door” for care
- Case studies
Alcohol Use Disorder is a diagnosis which is common in many populations and also one in which, in the past, there have been markedly divergent opinions on management. This resource aims to build capability and medical leadership in the treatment of this problem.
- Bullying and harassment
- Safe workplace culture and its impact
- Workplace behaviour and health outcomes
- Prevention, resources and appropriate responses
This suite of resources is to support specialist medical college supervisors to provide culturally safe supervision to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander trainees.
- Webinar recordings
- Expert interviews
- Case-based video scenarios
- Supplementary resources
This online course provides Basic Trainees with information, resources, video demonstrations and study tools to assist them in preparing for, and sitting, the Divisional Written and Clinical Exams.
- Examination days, structure and process
- Standards and assessment criteria
- Study tools, resources and strategies
- Transition to Advanced Training
Alcohol and drug use during pregnancy is a major risk factor for maternal morbidity and neonatal complications, but the prevalence of substance use by women that are pregnant or are of childbearing age is quite high. Early detection by screening of all pregnant women and those planning pregnancies should be a priority. These modules address the assessment of women broadly, and detailed information with regards to alcohol, tobacco and opioid use.
- Assessment of women
- Alcohol, tobacco and opioid use during pregnancy
- Care during pregnancy
- Care of infants and children
Broaden your understanding of ethics through this resource as you learn about, discuss and reflect on the main ethical issues facing Physicians.
- Introduction to ethics
- Ethics in professional practice
- Ethical issues in health care
- Continuous engagement in ethics
Broaden your understanding of ethics through this resource as you learn about, discuss and reflect on the main ethical issues facing Physicians.
- Introduction to ethics
- Ethics in professional practice
- Ethical issues in health care
- Continuous engagement in ethics
Genomics can provide greater understanding and more effective diagnosis of genetic conditions, from the relatively common to the extremely rare. This online course has been designed to educate you on how to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, families and communities by working together to create world-class genomic research and clinical care.
- Historical context and building trust
- Engagement and access to clinical care and research
- Understanding reference data and driving health system change
- Leadership in genomic healthcare
This resource has been designed for Advanced Trainees, as an introduction to Health Policy, Systems and Advocacy. It aims to support Advanced Trainees in meeting the health policy, systems, and advocacy professional standard and underpinning competencies outlined in their specialty curriculum, and to enable connections between Advanced Trainees’ own practice and the nature and attributes of local, national, and global health systems.
- Health needs assessment
- Prevention and promotion
- Social determinants, equity and access
- Advocacy and sustainability
This resource supports trainee development in leadership, management and teamwork skills and work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Leadership styles and healthcare context
- Personality, management and self-management
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Teamwork in patient-centred care
Management is a role made up of an essential set of skills, including communication, self-reflection and conflict management. This course provides information about the whole role, and skills for best managing others. It is a detailed set of modules that allow you to investigate your own methods, and provides strategies for self-improvement. Change management is an essential skill to acquire, and the principles of this are addressed. Methods on how to run a successful meeting are outlined, along with how to recruit the right person for your team. A relevant explanation of the Work Health & Safety Act 2011 with case studies to enhance understanding.
- The role of manager and managing others
- Understanding self and managing relationships
- Change management, meetings and conflict management
- Recruitment, selection and workplace health and safety
This resource aims to build the resilience of frontline workers and empower them to confidently manage methamphetamine abuse on the frontline.
- Methamphetamine information and treatment
- Methamphetamine and media representations
- Methamphetamine treatment approaches
- Substance abuse and intoxication skills
The Microbiology Online Learning Resource is designed as an introduction to the key concepts of microbiology for students and trainees of Infectious Diseases.
- Microorganisms and containment measures
- Methods of detection
- Specimen collection and transport
- Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and interpretation of microbiology tests
This resource aims to review the contemporary understanding of the use of opioids and offer clear operational guidelines for potential prescribers.
- Opioid treatment and dose
- Opioid safety and guidelines
- Patient selection and research gaps
- Morphine milligram equivalent doses and conclusion
In order to ensure that Addiction Medicine practitioners emerge as consultants able to provide opportunistic interventions for patients with alcohol or other drug problems, this resource aims to increase skills and knowledge in these areas.
- Brief interventions
- Alcohol and tobacco
- Cannabis
- Counselling skills
This resource is desgined to help physicians build safe and healthy workplaces. It explains and helps physicians identify the factors contributing to healthy workplaces and aims to provide strategies and tools to combat unprofessional behaviours such as: incivility, conflict, gossip, rumour, bullying, harassment, and discrimination.
- Healthy and safe workplaces and workplace culture
- Workplace conflict, gossip and rumour
- Bullying, harassment and discrimination
- Building healthy workplaces and organisational change
This series of three online modules covers the domain of Pain Management in the Advanced Training Palliative Medicine Curriculum by presenting three long cases in a range of clinical settings. The modules also address a range of domains in the Professional Qualities Curriculum.
- Palliative care settings
- Opioids and analgesia
- Mucositis and prescribing errors
- Pain assessment and management
This resource aims to provide you with the advocacy skills and competencies that will enable you to advocate on behalf of your patients, colleagues and Specialty Societies.
- The advocates journey documentary series
- Becoming an advocate
- The advocates toolkit
This resource helps physicians adopt pro-active strategies so they can aim to thrive in their work, and help others to do the same.
- Self-care and wellbeing in physician practice
- Personal and professional relationships and networks
- Self-awareness and wellbeing
- Self-care strategies and physician practice
Learn how to better support your own wellbeing, as well as the wellbeing of your staff and colleagues, during times of challenge or crisis.
- Leading with compassion and communicating effectively
- Promoting wellbeing and preventing burnout
- Setting healthy boundaries
- Building connections and support networks
This resource will cover the most common use of the prescription drugs opioids and benzodiazepines, and others including gabapentinoids, ‘Z drugs’ and antipsychotic medications.
- Opioids
- Benzodiazepines
- Other Prescription Drugs
Strong professionals have a level of skill with regards to clinical leadership, resilience, and their personal style with dealing with others and workload. This module discusses methods of these skills to develop your own technique to improve as a clinical professional.
- Characteristics of Clinical Leadership
- Leadership Styles and Resilience
- Leadership Skills
This resource helps identify and address common quality and safety challenges in the health workplace.
- Quality and safety 101
- Overcoming challenges
- Wellbeing and Patient centred care
- Quality and safety organisations
Learn about the unique factors and challenges of practicing healthcare in Rural Australia and how they influence the delivery of quality and safe care.
- Understanding rural Australia
- Quality and safety in rural Australia
- Improving quality and safety in rural Australia
- Working in healthcare in rural Australia
This resource covers the process of conducting RACP research projects. It includes interviews with six trainees, exploring their experiences completing research in human subjects, populations and communities or laboratory research, audit, and systematic review.
- Research questions and literature
- Research methodology, scientific methods and data analysis
- Scientific writing, research findings and evidence-based medicine
- Research integrity and translation to the workplace
This resource is designed to help Advanced Training Research Project supervisors address a number of key supervision skills to help trainees succeed in completing their Research Projects.
- Getting started
- Supervision skills: Working with your trainee
- Working with stakeholders
- What's next?
Helping smokers quit is a complex area, with many smokers continuing to smoke despite their medical circumstances. This resource provides an evidence-based approach to a range of interventions tailored to individual cases.
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and depression
- Pregnancy and Indigenous health
- Alcohol dependence and harm reduction
- Schizophrenia
The SPDP Online Facilitation course is designed to enable RACP Supervisors to successfully facilitate the Online Supervisor Professional Development Program (SPDP).
- Practical Skills for Supervisors
- Teaching and Learning in Healthcare Settings
- Work-based Learning and Assessment
Learn about how to better promote and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s access to specialist care through this case study based online course.
- Medical Specialist Access Framework (MSAF)
- Foundations for access to specialist care
- Equitable access to specialist healthcare
- Stakeholder engagement and specialist medical care
Access all of the information and tools you need to prepare for, and conduct, culturally competent and patient-centred telehealth consultations.
- Introduction to Telehealth
- Prior to a Telehealth Consultation
- During a Telehealth Consultation
- After a Telehealth Consultation
The Telesupervision online resource is a self-directed resource covering the process of supervision using technologies such as video conferencing, to support trainees and supervisors in rural and remote locations.
- Telesupervision in rural and metropolitan settings
- Telesupervision and telehealth
- Technology and goal setting in telesupervision
- Telesupervision in different context
This online course aims to introduce Australasian medical specialists to thalidomide and thalidomide embryopathy, and their implications for thalidomide survivors today.
- The Thalidomide Story
- The Drug Thalidomide
- Medical Issues and Special Considerations
- Living with Thalidomide Embryopathy
This course provides an overview of some key concepts in optimal timing of palliative care involvement followed by practical tips on discussing the referral with a patient and family. It aims to support cancer clinicians by demonstrating practical skills through the following modules:
- Module 1: Palliative care in the 21st century
- Module 2: Discussing a palliative care referral
- Module 3: Taking your skills into practice
This resource explains the process to supervisors and trainees so they work together effectively to address training difficulties. It supports supervisors and trainees to navigate the Training Support Pathway.
- Trainee in Difficulty Support Policy, Process and Pathway
- Practice, reflection and discussion activities
- Supporting resources, skills and frameworks
- Additional resources and further reading
This online course has been designed to help trainees develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to deliver effective health care to young people.
- Adolescent development and psycho-social assessment
- Ethical and legal issues
- Therapeutic engagement and self-management
- Transition to adult care
Learn how to work more sensitively and effectively with migrant, refugee and asylum seeker patients. This resource includes the perspectives and stories of a diverse range of individuals, and also provides relevant facts and practical strategies for objectives such as good cross-
- Case studies
- Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Australia and New Zealand
- Communication with respect
- Strategies for working with interpreters, navigating the healthcare system
- and more...
Young people who use drugs and alcohol is a common clinical problem. It is important for clinicians providing health care to adolescents to understand their behaviour and needs from a developmental perspective. This resource will assist Addiction Medicine practitioners in increasing their knowledge and skills to effectively manage young people and their families through specific approaches.
- Epidemiology and developmental stages
- Assessment frameworks and risk factors
- Management plans and risk assessment
- Mental health, family interventions and the BEST Plus approach
