Overview

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

Adult Medicine Programs

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1. IMSANZ stream
2. Adult Medicine Division Stream
3. Conjoint AMD-IMSANZ Speciality Updates

The Adult Medicine Division welcomes the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (IMSANZ) as a partner in presenting stimulating programs for Adult physicians on 13 and 14 May 2008.

IMSANZ Program Overview

The IMSANZ Program on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 May 2008 includes sessions on -

• Evidence Based practice in Real Patient Care
• Medical Assessment Units
• Controversies and Cases
• Rural / Regional Session
• General Medicine in Perioperative Care
• The General Physician in Ambulatory Chronic Disease

The Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand is pleased to welcome its members, and physicians in general, to its scientific meeting which is being held as a concurrent stream of the RACP Congress, after a successful meeting with the geriatricians in 2007.

As a complement to the Adult Medicine Division stream and to the specialty updates, the Internal Medicine stream this year offers particular focus on the special skills of general physicians, along with opportunities for trainees and physicians to present their own work. The specific sessions will include a seminar and panel discussion on acute medical assessment and management, bringing together the national and international specialists in this particular aspect of general medicine, along with sessions focusing on chronic and ambulatory diseases, perioperative medicine and using evidence based decision making in complex cases with multiple comorbidities.

We are delighted to have a former President of the Society of Acute Medicine in the United Kingdom, Professor Derek Bell, as our keynote speaker to speak on the UK and other international experience in acute medicine, and to contribute to our seminar on medical assessment units in Australia. We look forward to providing a stimulating program for general physicians and the physician colleagues within all our sub-specialties.

IMSANZ Program Keynote Speaker

International Experience in Acute Medicine
Derek Bell was appointed as the first Professor of Acute Medicine at Imperial College London, based at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in 2006. He was the inaugural President of the Society for Acute Medicine and has been involved with the Society since its inception. He is very interested in developing Acute Medicine as a specialty and delivering competency based training believing this to be essential to ensure prompt safe and effective care for the acutely unwell patient.
Derek graduated from Edinburgh University in 1980. He initially specialised in Chest and General Medicine with an interest in Intensive Care.  He was appointed as Consultant, Central Middlesex Hospital, London before moving to Edinburgh as a Consultant in Acute Medicine and Chest Medicine.  Setting up Acute Medicine services in Edinburgh allowed him to gain vast experience in this area which has been used to help develop other units in the UK and abroad.
While in Edinburgh he was appointed as Associate Medical Director and latterly as Medical Director for the Acute Operating Division in Lothian.
Derek has worked with the Modernisation Agency as well the Scottish Executive Health Directorate, as the National Clinical Lead for Unscheduled Care. He also serves on several National Committees and is an elected member of council for the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh.
His academic research interests relate to quality and organisation of care, particularly acute medical care, and in the methods of delivery of care. Clinically his interests are illness severity assessment, pulmonary embolism and pneumonia and has published in these areas.

Adult Medicine Division Program Overview

The Adult Medicine Division invites Fellows and Trainees to a two-stream program on a wide range of topics, designed to provide updates for busy physicians and trainees.   The program will include:

• Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Oration
  Speaker: Professor Suzanne Crowe
  Title: Microbes sans Frontieres: Infections that threaten our region

• Specialty updates, with an emphasis on the clinical year in review
  - Cardiology
  - Endocrinology
  - Intensive Care
  - Gastroenterology - symposium presented by The Royal College of Physicians, London
  - Medicine in pregnancy
  - transition from Paediatric to Adult care in chronic disease
• The Best of Grand Rounds
  Once again we invite advanced trainees to present The Best of Grand Rounds, a successful feature of recent Congresses.

Case Presenters in The Best of the Grand Rounds are required to submit expanded abstracts on their presentations. The expanded abstracts can be viewed by selecting the presenters name:

Paul Lee
Anthoulla Mohamudally
Jason Denman
Amy Osborne
Wai Kuen Chow
Jeremy Hoang
Kwang Chien Yee
Kaitlyn Parratt
Anil Roy

The Education Deanery will run workshops for Physician Educators during the Congress.

Education Sunrise Sessions: These short sessions will provide an introduction to the use of the mini-CEX as a formative assessment tool. They will be interactive sessions allowing time for discussion on the role of the assessor, the value of feedback and issues around rating scales. Several facilitators will be used for these sessions along with Professor Kevin Forsyth and Dr Alison Jones from the RACP and fellows from Australia and New Zealand, including Dr Ralph Pinnock, Dr Adrian Trenholme, Dr Mike Starr, Professor Mike South and Professor Kichu Nair. We hope that people will share their experiences of observation and feedback of trainees and explore how the mini-CEX can provide a framework for this process.

Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Oration

Microbes sans frontières: infections that threaten our region
Suzanne Crowe is currently the Head of the HIV Pathogenesis Research Program at the Burnet Institute, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Principal Specialist in Infectious Diseases at the Alfred Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Monash University, Melbourne.  She is currently an adviser and consultant to the World Health Organisation Global Program on AIDS, Deputy Chair of the Board of the Australian India Council (DFAT) and has served as President of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine and as a member of the Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council Asia Working Group.  With over 166 peer-reviewed publications, her main research interests are the role of macrophages in HIV pathogenesis and translational research in low cost CD4 and Viral Load tests to monitor HIV infection in developing countries.