Tele-Derm users have exclusive access to the upcoming ACRRM skin cancer webinar presented by Ophthalmologist Prof Tim Sullivan and Plastic Surgeon Dr Dan Kennedy.

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Last weekend saw the ACRRM Registrar Committee gather in Brisbane for its inaugural 2019 face-to-face meeting.

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ACRRM is leading a project to design and deliver a high-quality education package for GPs in Drug and Alcohol Addiction Training.

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The College supports initiatives to assist doctors impacted by flooding in North Queensland and encourages members to provide assistance where they can.

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Are you working in a drought declared area? Six new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items have been introduced to enable GPs and non-specialist medical practitioners to provide general mental health and well-being support services by video conference to patients in drought-affected areas.

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The Maternity and Neonatal eHandbooks is now maintained by Safer Care Victoria. You can access this suite of clinical guidance through their website.

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ACRRM President Dr Ewen McPhee and CEO Marita Cowie have presented the College’s priority issues to key stakeholders in Canberra in the first week of Federal Parliament.

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ACRRM is convening a respectful workplaces working group to provide advice on College operations and activities as part of our continuous quality improvement toward promoting and upholding respectful workplaces.

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Phase 3 of the Childhood Immunisation Education Campaign – ‘Get the Facts’ has launched to encourage Australian parents and carers to get their kids vaccinated.

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The College has joined the National Children’s Digital Health Collaborative, a transformative, national partnership established on behalf of the Australian Digital Health Agency.

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The World Organisation of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations (WONCA), the peak international body for family doctors, this month signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen collaboration between the two organisations.

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The College has developed a unique set of standards and an audit tool to ensure that small rural hospitals are provided with the minimum resources they need to deliver emergency care to people living in remote areas.

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The period for patients to opt out of having a My Health Record created for them ceases on Thursday 31 January 2019. The creation of the record will be a one-time activity to create an empty shell record for every Australian (who has not opted out).

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Fellows of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine have been recognised for their contributions to medical education, rural general practice and community in the Australia Day 2019 Honors list.

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Are you frustrated with the quality of the information that is stored in medical records in your practice management system? Could you improve your reporting and monitoring of practice improvements if everyone coded their information in the same way?

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Are you working in a drought declared area? Six new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items were recently introduced to enable GPs and non-specialist medical practitioners to provide general mental health and well-being support services by video conference to patients in drought-affected areas.

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The National Cancer Screening Register has been supporting the renewed National Cervical Screening Program since the commencement of the new HPV-based Cervical Screening Test on 1 December 2017.

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The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) has been advised by the Australian Medical Council (AMC) that our full accreditation status as a medical specialist college has been reaffirmed until 2022.

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