Join the Doctors in Secondary Schools Clinical Training Program's Breakfast Club.
Each fortnight throughout Term 3, join us alongside a specialist as we discuss common issues presenting in young people. These sessions are designed for clinicians, nurses and educators.
| Date | Title
| Learning outcomes |
Wednesday 31 July 7.30am-8.30am (CANCELLED)
| Tools for Schools and Families: Recommending reasonable adjustments for young people in the school and home environments with Dr Bill Garvey
(CANCELLED)
| - Describe the role of social prescribing for families, and reasonable adjustments in schools, for students with learning difficulties, disorders, ASD and ADHD, and behavioural concerns
- Discuss the role of school-based service providers in advocating for individuals and working with school communities.
- Discuss common school strategies and family options that are accessible for young people and easy to recommend in practice
- Differentiate those in whom higher level adjustment or support is required and pathways to engage this support
- Participate in a community of practice and peer learning
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| Wednesday 14 August 7.30am-8.30am | Not just a 'picky eater': Neurodivergence and feeding difficulties, disordered eating and eating disorders with Hilary Smith
| - Describe the differences between feeding difficulties, disordered eating and eating disorders, and the relationship with neurodiversity
- Discuss tools and strategies for identifying and managing eating disorders in neurodivergent young people
- Describe the role of school-based health providers in working within an integrated community-based team for neurodivergent young people with disordered eating and eating disorders
- Participate in a community of practice and peer learning
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| Wednesday 28 August 7.30am-8.30am | DiSS BITS Part 3 with Desiree Smith and Stephanie Stewart
| - Discuss the role of brief interventions for YP with low to moderate mental ill-health in school-based health services
- Examine a case plan for a young person working through the relevant Brief Intervention Toolkit module (?Sleep, Nutrition, Physical Activity)
- Construct a practical approach to using the Orygen brief intervention toolkit modules through case-based discussion.
- Participate in a community of practice and peer learning.
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| Wednesday 11 September 7.30am-8.30am | Roundabouts and Workarounds: Creating easier roads for young people to navigate school-based health services with Dr Biacna Forrester and Dr Simone Craig
| - Describe the development of School based health services across different levels or domains of healthcare
- Explore systemic school barriers and enablers in the school setting
- Co-create solutions to common issues in practice
- Participate in a community of practice and peer learning.
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Topics and titles are subject to change. These series events have been approved in the RACGP 2023-2025 triennium as a 4-hour activity (Activity number TBC): 4 hours of Reviewing Performance.
