The John Murtagh Update Course

Date: November 4-6 2015

The update course is a celebration of what is best in clinical general practice learning and in an era of electronic clinical education offerings, it continues to be a mainstay in practising GPs’ educational calendars. It also provides an opportunity for GPs to network with their colleagues. The course is named in honour of Professor John Murtagh and his extraordinary contribution to Family Medicine. The 2015 Annual Update course is proudly convened by the Department of General Practice, Monash University, and will be held this year at the Rendezvous Hotel, 328 Flinders Street, Melbourne, 3000. Full program details will be available from Easter 2015. This will be the 37th year that the course has been offered.

See photos from the 2014 course

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Registrations now OPEN

Mindfulness Workshop

Mindfulness Workshop

Date: October 10, 2015 (Saturday)

Due to the popularity and excellent feedback from the Mindfulness course held last February 21, 2015, we will be holding another Mindfulness course later this year.

Mindfulness-based approaches have generated a great deal of clinical and research interest in recent years. Mindfulness is a generic skill involving training attention and attitude. It has a wide range of solutions to improving immunity, neuroplasticity, epigenetics, and enhanced clinical performance. This interactive workshop will explore the principles and application of mindfulness based practices for personal and professional use.

The Mindfulness course aims to increase awareness of the importance of stress and mental health problems and their effects on wellbeing, performance and leadership. It will also increase knowledge of the indications for and role of mindfulness in managing mental and physical illness.

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Registrations now OPEN

Ask Better Questions workshop

Ask Better Questions is a one-day workshop covering highly effective communication strategies and practical tips that will enable you to enhance your communication skills and professional practice.

With these strategies, you will be able to empower patients/clients in managing their own health and wellbeing.

Communication typically consists of too much telling and not enough asking, which prevents people from taking responsibility for their own lives.

By attending this workshop you will recognise habitual patterns of response in your conversations, understand the impact of asking vs telling and learn to consciously question using a simple to learn, yet highly effective questioning model.

Using the Ask Better Questions communication technique with your patients/clients will lead to them being more engaged, motivated for self-care and less dependent upon services that are already struggling to cope.

Facilitator: Lindsay Tighe

Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Time:  9.30 am - 4:30 pm

Venue: Classroom 1, Alfred Medical Research & Education Precinct (AMREP), The Alfred hospital, Commercial Road Prahran Melbourne

For further information, see the ADMA website : http://www.adma.org.au/past-seminars.html

Ally Training Workshop: addressing sexual orientation issues in health care training and delivery

The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is offering a workshop addressing sexual orientation and gender equity issues in health care training and delivery on Monday 31 August from 9.30am to 12.30pm.

Speaker, Gene Moore, is a Student Rights Officer with the Monash Students’ Association and has a long-standing interest in defining the impact of sexual orientation issues in health care delivery.

The workshop is being delivered in person from the School of Rural Health Bendigo and streamed to all SRH sites using Zoom. See the attached invitation for details.

Who should attend?

This workshop is targeted at academic and professional staff supporting students in training, as well as students and staff seeking awareness of potential influences on their own practice.

This workshop is being promoted by the Diversity and Inclusion Committee chaired by Associate Professor Jenny Newton and organised by Dr Jane Bourke and Melissa McNicol.

Register to attend

Register online by Wednesday 26 August: http://goo.gl/forms/qt4Miylu00

A second workshop is scheduled for Thursday 29 September, 9.30-12.30

Venue: Room C119, 10 Chancellors Walk (formerly Building 13C) Clayton Campus

Monash takes a proactive stance against discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status. The Ally Network promotes Monash as a safe space for individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer (LGBTIQ). More information at monash.edu/ally

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Super-Resolution by STORM 2015 Workshop

This workshop focuses on the super-resolution technique of STochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM), particularly Direct STORM (dSTORM) and the analogous techniques of Ground State Depletion Imaging Microscopy (GSDIM) and Nikon STORM (N-STORM).

Monash Micro Imaging workshops emphasise hands-on learning and provide practical training. Lectures are designed to illustrate the practical aspects of techniques and everyone attending the practical sessions is expected to gain hands-on experience in preparing samples, operating microscopes and optimising imaging parameters to gain good data, and performing localisation analysis.

Concepts discussed in the Analysis lectures and practical sessions are applicable to other single molecule localisation techniques, such as PALM.

Date: 17-19 August 2015

Venue: Monash University, Clayton

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Target audience: research staff and students working with Super Resolution by Single Molecule Localisation, specifically STORM and STORM variants. 

Contact time
Lectures: 6hrs
Instrumentation and Analysis: 9hrs

Instructors
The instructors are experts who work regularly in the lab with these techniques:
Dr Kirstin Elgass (MMI), Dr Betty Kouskousis (Burnet Institute/MMI), Dr Catherine Palmer (Burnet Institute/MMI), Dr Keith Schulze (MMI) and Dr Carl Ebeling (Bruker).

Instrumentation
Monash-built dSTORM system (Clayton), Bruker Vutara SR350 instrument (Clayton),
Software: RapidSTORM, ThunderSTORM.

Workshop Registration
By application/expression of interest:
https://facultyapplications.wufoo.eu/forms/superresolution-by-storm-2015/

Recommended reading for beginners:
1. Q&A: Single-molecule localization microscopy for biological imaging, McEvoy et al.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/106

2. A starter kit for point-localization super-resolution imaging. Manley et al.

DOI 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.10.009

Workshop Conveners and for further information contact:

stephen.firth@monash.edu

kirstin.elgass@monash.edu

Working with the new Lecture Theatre Equipment workshop

The Staff Development Unit is pleased to announce new July dates for the Working with the new Lecture Theatre Equipment workshop.

This workshop is open to all interested academic and professional staff and is designed to enhance attendees’ knowledge of the educational technology available in newly refurbishment lecture theatres.

Through practical demonstration and discussion the workshop will cover:

• Familiarisation with the new height adjustable lectern, dual screen preview monitors and easy to navigate AV user interface.

• Simultaneously presenting different content (laptop/tablet/PC/doc cam) to each of the projector displays.

• How to make effective use of the high-definition document camera to display 3D objects or hand written notes and diagrams.

• Wirelessly presenting from your laptop or tablet while moving around the theatre.

• Connecting to other theatres for tele-teaching via video conferencing.

• An introduction to digital inking over your prepared teaching material.

These one hour sessions are being offered at both the Caulfield and Clayton campuses.

Friday 10 July

Times: 09.00am - 10.00am, 10.30am – 11.30am, 12.30pm – 1.30pm and 2.00pm – 3.00pm

Venue: Caulfield Campus Building B, Lecture Theatre B215

Monday 13 July

Times: 9.00am – 10.00am, 10.30am – 11.30am, 12.30pm – 1.30pm and 2.00pm – 3.00pm

Venue: Clayton Campus Science Theatres (East) S12, 16 Rainforest Walk (Building 25)

Wednesday 15 July

Times: 9.00am – 10.00am, 10.30am – 11.30am, 12.30pm – 1.30pm and 2.00pm – 3.00pm

Venue: Clayton Campus Science Theatres (East) S9, 16 Rainforest Walk (Building 25)

Friday 17 July

Times: 9.00am – 10.00am, 10.30am – 11.30am, 12.30pm – 1.30pm and 2.00pm – 3.00pm

Venue: Caulfield Campus Building B, Lecture Theatre B215

For further information and to register please visit: www.adm.monash.edu.au/staff-development/ws/work/lecture.html 

Department of General Practice postgraduate training options 2015

Department of General Practice postgraduate training options 2015: workshops and award courses – available for all GPs and primary health care staff.

• Skin Cancer Workshop – August 22-23, 2015
• Mindfulness Workshop – October 10, 2015
• The Primary Care Office Procedures Workshop – August 1-2, 2015
• John Murtagh Annual Update Course – November 4-6, 2015
• Co-branded Courses with the Blackdog Institute (various dates)

Workshop information and details

Apply: ASSA workshop program 2016-2017

The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia's​ (ASSA) Workshop Program is a competitive program providing grants to assist social sciences researchers to convene a two-day, multidisciplinary research workshop on an issue of national concern in the social sciences. 

The Workshop Program provides an important arena for intellectual exchange and innovation, a mechanism for exploring linkages between research and policy, and a valuable means of supporting Early Career Researchers.

Apply: one day course​

Title: Designing Economic Evaluation Alongside Trials

When: 4 May 2015

Where: University of Melbourne

Duration: one day

The Health Economics Group, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health will be offering a new course Designing Economic Evaluation Alongside Trials to be held on the 4 May 2015 at Melbourne University.

School of Personalised Immunology

The Centre of Personalised Immunology located in The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, is pleased to announce the upcoming inaugural School of Personalised Immunology. Monash University is a member of the Centre and will be offering PhD scholarships for joint projects.

This one and half day program is aimed at educating clinicians, GPs, registrars and medical students (with no prior knowledge assumed) on the latest technologies in phenotyping and genomic medicine for understanding and treating immune diseases.

Patient Reported Outcome Measures Events

The Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety (Monash University) and sponsors; Department of Health and Human Services, Victorian Managed Insurance Authority and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care invite you to attend this event titled "Patient reported outome measures (PROMs): new horizons in health-related quality of life improvements" to be held in Melbourne.

This two-day event will consist of a workshop and a seminar on PROMs.

The workshop on Thursday 25th June will provide an understanding of the opportunities that PROMs data present, why they are important and how to collect them - evidence and challenges.

The seminar on Friday 26th June will highlight where PROMs are being collected across the health spectrum and how they are being used to improve health related quality of care.

This event will cover areas such as improvement in the quality of health care, from methodological developments through methods of dissemination of outcomes, to the implementation of improvement initiatives based on PROMs data.

Invitation: Dr Fiona Hill - Arab Cultural Competence: 8 Rules of Engagement

Date: Monday 16 February
Time: 12:30 - 4:30 pm
Venue: Japanese Studies Centre Auditorium, 12 Ancora Imparo Way (Building 54) Room G17, Clayton campus
Map: http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/maps/3-Claytoncolour.pdf
Cost: Free - limited space

New Lecture Theatre Equipment workshop

Enhance your learning space tech skills

The Staff  Development Unit is pleased to announce February dates for the Working with New Lecture Theatre Equipment workshop.

Missioncraft in Disaster Relief Operations Workshop 2015

By Kaye Richey, via Wikimedia Commons

Missioncraft is the art and science of preparing and conducting field operations. This 1-week intensive workshop presents best practices for health personnel in international disaster relief operations.

ADMA Ask better questions workshop

Australian Disease Management Association (ADMA) is running additional Ask Better Questions workshops on Tuesday, 9 December 2014 and Friday, 5 June 2015 .

Workshop Invitation - Women in the Scientific Research Workforce

Since 2011, BioMedVic has been an industry partner in the ARC Linkage Project ‘Women in the Scientific Research Workforce: identifying and sustaining the diversity advantage’, led by Profs Sharon Bell and Lyn Yates.

Please click here for an invitation to participate in a National Workshop being held to respond and contribute to the project report Women in the Scientific Research Workforce and the development of a Diversity Advantage Toolkit to enable organisations and individuals to improve the representation and success of women in scientific research.

Commercialisation Workshop and Networking Function

NHMRC and the Department of Industry are jointly organising a workshop aimed at ‘bridging the gap’ between proof-of-principle research and further commercial translation. The workshop will be held in Melbourne on 14 November and health and medical researchers from Monash are invited to attend.

The workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers to hear from AusIndustry experts, who will present case studies and provide advice that will help researchers to better understand the pathways to commercialisation.

MICROMON – Recombinant DNA Techniques Course 2014

Micromon, in the School of Biomedical Sciences, is accepting registrations for its next workshop that provides basic training in the essential skills ofrecombinant DNA technology. It is designed to teach fundamental molecular biology skills to participants who have had little or no previous experience, as well as being an ideal workshop for those who would like to consolidate their current, basic-intermediate, skill level. It has been designed to cater for Academics, Science Graduates, Laboratory staff and Postgraduates.

Please visit our website at micromon.monash.org for further information or contact Mark Cauchi on 9905 4830.

Date: Sunday 30 November – Friday 5 December, 2014

Venue: Building 53, Clayton Campus

Click here to see the attached brochure for further information.