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Infectious Disease
Talking vaccination: help protect your patients from Meningococcal B disease
This continuing education program is designed to provide primary health care practitioners with the skills to maximise appropriate uptake of Meningococcal B vaccination in relevant patients. This video-based program has a key focus on building skills with regard to patient counselling and objection handling.
This educational activity was developed by MDBriefCase at the request, and with funding from GSK.
DURATION
4.5 hrs
PROFESSION
Physician
# OF CREDITS
40
ACCREDITATION
RACGP CPD Accredited Activity
EXPIRY DATE
2022-02-28
This continuing education program is designed to provide primary health care practitioners with the skills to maximise appropriate uptake of Meningococcal B vaccination in relevant patients. This video-based program has a key focus on building skills with regard to patient counselling and objection handling.
This educational activity was developed by MDBriefCase at the request, and with funding from GSK.
Faculty
Professor Paul Van Buynder,
MB BS MPH FAFPHM
Dr Lisa Beecham,
General Practitioner, Robina Town Medical Centre, QLD
Brooke Lambert,
Practice Nurse
Dr Nina Berry,
Behavioural Scientist (Vaccination communication)
Learning objectives
After successfully completing this eTutor program GPs will be able to:
- Identify patients who would benefit from meningococcal B (MenB) vaccination, using opportunistic screening.
- Establish, build, and maintain therapeutic trust with parents of young children and adolescent patients using therapeutic empathy.
- Elicit questions and concerns to saturation to identify primary barriers to, and important drivers of, MenB vaccination.
- Address patients’ primary barriers to, and harness/amplify/discuss drivers of, MenB vaccination identified during consultations using accessible language to describe the benefit exchange.
- Recommend MenB vaccination with confidence using accessible language to describe MenB disease and epidemiology in Australia.
Accreditation
This 4.5 hour interactive online learning activity is accredited by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners for 40 points.
Activity no. 223616