Palliative Medicine in Rural and Remote Settings: training and peer support opportunities
Tracks
Waterfront Room 2
| Thursday, October 24, 2024 |
| 4:20 PM - 4:50 PM |
| Waterfront Room 3 |
Details
Stream: BUILD UP CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE: Clinical skills and clinical updates across all domains of practice
Speaker
Dr Suzanne Rainsford
Palliative Medicine Specialist
Private Practice
Palliative Medicine in Rural and Remote Settings: training and peer support opportunities.
Abstract Overview
Amongst Australian medical practitioners, GPs provide the bulk of palliative care, with clinical and education support provided by metropolitan out-reach palliative medicine consultants/specialists. Innovative ways of attracting palliative medicine consultants/specialists to rural locations are needed, as is the provision of peer support for rural GPs and specialists providing care.
This presentation will include an over view of existing palliative care training opportunities (ACCRM – AST), RACGP- ARST, RACP (FAChPM or 6-month Clinical Foundation in Palliative Medicine), evolving opportunities (Rural and Remote Institute of Palliative Medicine [RRIPM]), and a current model for peer support for GPs and specialists working in rural and remote settings (ANZSPM Rural and Remote SIG CBD Group - a monthly online forum established in February 2022 to provide opportunity for isolated practitioners to discuss complex cases. Current participants (9) include physicians, specialists, and GPs working in non-metro settings).
While the RRIPM project, funded by a FATES grant and sponsored by RACP, is focused on specialist training, there is a potential flow on effect to GPs - more accredited rural sites for AST and ARST training and specialist supervisors that are required for both RACGP and ACRRM. The findings of a recently completed scoping review will be presented.
This presentation will include an over view of existing palliative care training opportunities (ACCRM – AST), RACGP- ARST, RACP (FAChPM or 6-month Clinical Foundation in Palliative Medicine), evolving opportunities (Rural and Remote Institute of Palliative Medicine [RRIPM]), and a current model for peer support for GPs and specialists working in rural and remote settings (ANZSPM Rural and Remote SIG CBD Group - a monthly online forum established in February 2022 to provide opportunity for isolated practitioners to discuss complex cases. Current participants (9) include physicians, specialists, and GPs working in non-metro settings).
While the RRIPM project, funded by a FATES grant and sponsored by RACP, is focused on specialist training, there is a potential flow on effect to GPs - more accredited rural sites for AST and ARST training and specialist supervisors that are required for both RACGP and ACRRM. The findings of a recently completed scoping review will be presented.
Biography
Sue Rainsford (BSc MBBS MFM PhD) is a Palliative Medicine Specialist (FAChPM) and ex-rural GP (FACRRM) working in the Snowy Monaro Region of NSW since 1992. Sue is a VMO at the local hospital, private practitioner in the community and local RACFs, and holds an honorary clinical senior lecturer position at ANU Rural Clinical School. In 2018, she was awarded her PhD (ANU) for her thesis ‘The influence of place of death and rural residency on the good death.’ Sue assesses the palliative medicine case studies for RACP – AChPM/Diploma and ACRRM AST palliative care CBDs. She has published in national and international journals, presented at national and international conferences, and was the lead investigator for funded projects introducing Multidisciplinary Palliative Care Case Conferences and Palliative Care Needs Rounds into rural RACFs. Sue is a founding co-chair of ANZSPM Rural and Remote SIG and a member of RRIPM steering group.
