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Ellipses and suture techniques Outcome Improvement Activity

Ellipses and suture techniques Outcome Improvement Activity

This measuring outcome activity is accredited by the RACGP and ACRRM for 8.5 hours of measuring outcome hours.

This activity is a streamlined solution to simplify the government-mandated CPD requirements, meeting the outcome measurement obligation with clinically relevant and efficient learning.

Covering ellipses and suture techniques, this course helps doctors review and refine their practice for better patient care. You'll create a quick, go-to checklist by combining best-practice resources, clinical experience, and course insights. The result is a concise, practical, and valuable clinical guide to enhance your daily practice.

You’ll track real improvements by comparing your patient management before and after applying your checklist to three (or more!) patient cases. Practical, measurable, and designed to enhance your expertise. 

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  • FLEXIBLE TIMING

  • 100% ONLINE

  • accredited Course

  • Expert instructor

This Outcome Improvement Activity will guide you to compare and measure your patient management prior to and after applying evidence-based guidelines to three patient cases. Guides, tools and templates are provided as you work through this activity.

This activity is designed to be flexible and enhance your clinical practice. You may complete more than three patient reports and keep the additional reports for your
records.

This activity relates to ellipses and suture techniques and enables doctors to review and enhance their current practice for patients with this condition.

Learning journey

The steps for this activity are:

  1. Identify three patients in your practice
  2. Undertake a baseline measurement using the patient records.
  3. Activate a review/intervention using evidence-based guideline(s).
  4. Undertake another measurement after the review/intervention.
  5. Reflect on how your patient management may change as a result of this activity.
  1. Incorporate a quality improvement change in your own clinical management of patient cases.
  2. Document the process of initiating, planning, implementing, evaluating and reviewing patient case management.
  3. Generate safe, best practice solutions to patient cases.
  4. Measure your management of these patient cases prior to and after completing the activity.

All GPs looking to implement a measuring outcome activity.

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CPD Hours:

  • Education hours:  0.0
  • Reviewing performance hours: 0.0
  • Measuring outcome hours:  8.5
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Accreditations:

Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP) #809202

Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) #32976

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Format:

  • 100% online resources

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Study duration:

  • 8.5 hours CPD Activity

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This course focuses on skin cancer surgery relating to ellipses and suture techniques. Participants will learn about the defects, resting skin tension lines (RSTL) and excision planning. Closure options and cosmetic considerations are outlined. Guides are included with mathematical ratios. Detailed information including schematics are provided for ellipses and variants of the standard ellipse. An overview of the vessels and nerves is presented in addition to the clinical considerations of RSTL. Knot tying and suture techniques are reinforced including selecting the appropriate closure techniques. Detailed images of the different suture techniques are provided and then demonstrated on pork belly.