Talking vaccination: help protect your patients from Meningococcal B disease

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RACGP CPD Accredited Activity

4.5 hrs

Infectious Disease

40 Credits

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Course Description

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.

Course Details

Expiry Date: 2022-02-28

Professions: Physician

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)

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

Learning Objective(s)

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.
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