Thousands of GPs have attended our programs, renowned for their comprehensive nature and the ability to give medical professionals the knowledge to make a difference to their patients and their practice. Choose from a range of courses that will fit your busy schedule, professional skill set and personal career interests. All HealthCert courses are professionally accredited and provide access into multiple master degree pathways and clinical attachment programs.
The Professional Certificate
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The Advanced Certificate
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The Professional Diploma
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Presented by dermatologists, the program focuses on the early presentation of various dermatological conditions and how to manage them in primary care. You will learn how to address major skin, hair and nail problems, and treat a wide range of problems including acne, dermatitis, rosacea, psoriasis, and various others.
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Presented by noted dermatologists, the Advanced Certificate of General Dermatology will increase your clinical knowledge, teach you how to assess more complex and rare cases and make differential diagnoses for various dermatological conditions.
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There will be a greater focus on difficult and complex cases in General Dermatology. The importance of accurate screening and the rules to avoid missing melanoma are also essential learning. Submission and analysis of medical practitioners’ own cases are a key feature of this course.
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Learn or refresh your skills in a broad range of surgical procedures, local anaesthetic approaches, post-operative care, and various suturing techniques.
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The workshop provides an introduction to this advanced procedure for permanent male fertility control. The program is ideal for experienced doctors who regularly perform advanced clinical procedures or who already provide traditional vasectomies to their patients but would like to learn the non-scalpel procedure.
The workshop will give you a step by step guide to the procedure and valuable insight into the safety guidelines you need to know to avoid complications. You will learn what equipment is necessary to achieve the best outcomes for your patients, with the opportunity to practise on simulated models.
The Primary Certificate of Medical Nutrition & Chronic Disease teaches different dietary approaches for the management of chronic disease, diabetes and cardiovascular health in primary care.
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The Professional Certificate course will teach the foundations of dietary guidelines and help you understand how they can be applied in general practice to better manage medical conditions.
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The Advanced Certificate course will increase your clinical knowledge of medical nutrition strategies that can be implemented to improve patient outcomes.
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The Professional Certificate course provides an introduction to the therapeutic properties and uses of cannabis, equipping medical practitioners with the basic knowledge required to safely prescribe and treat patients with medicinal cannabis in Australia.
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The Advanced Certificate course explores the therapeutic properties and uses of cannabis, equipping medical practitioners with the advanced knowledge required to safely prescribe and treat patients with medicinal cannabis in Australia.
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Exploring the new generation of medicine, the online program will enable you to stay ahead of the curve in managing common conditions in primary care, including epilepsy, PTSD and cancer symptoms.
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Gain the knowledge required to manage women's health issues commonly seen in primary care and provide a high-demand service to better meet your patients' needs.
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Increase your clinical knowledge in women's health issues by exploring medical conditions and concerns pertinent to female patients in the primary care setting.
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Achieve expert-level knowledge in women's health issues, enabling the efficient management of most gender-specific presentations in general practice.
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This professional certificate course provides medical professionals with a robust understanding of men’s health issues commonly seen in primary care.
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Better address your patients’ concerns, exploring medical conditions pertinent to male patients such as penile conditions, fertility, testicular and male breast cancer, hair loss, genital inflammatory dermatoses, androgen deficiency, dementia, cardiovascular health, and weight control.
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Become a go-to confidant for your male patients by acquiring near-expert knowledge in the management of men's health conditions, including gout, sleep apnoea, musculoskeletal problems, conditions related to smoking, peripheral arterial disease, congestive cardiac failure, HIV, and more.
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Gain an insight into musculoskeletal conditions and sports injuries commonly seen in primary care. Cement theory into practice with optional practical skills workshop available in select locations.
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Advance your knowledge of musculoskeletal and sporting injuries and ailments. Manage these complaints to optimise your patients' outcomes.
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Achieve expert knowledge in the management of musculoskeletal conditions and sporting injuries in primary care, including clinical case submissions.
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Gain an understanding of how to screen, diagnose, treat and manage common mental health conditions and provide a high-demand service to your patients in primary care.
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Learn techniques to detect, assess and review patients with mental health issues including screening under the Mental Health Better Access Initiative, conduct mental health interviews, and develop and review Mental Health Plans.
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Gain an introduction to PTSD with criteria to identify symptoms and provide treatments. Learn about other health conditions that may contribute to PTSD with interviews from carer and patient perspectives.
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Gain an understanding of chronic conditions and illnesses commonly encountered in primary care to improve patient outcomes.
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Develop comprehensive knowledge in the prevention, diagnosis and ongoing GP management of chronic illnesses.
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Achieve expert knowledge in the management of chronic diseases in primary care, including clinical case submissions.
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Leverage your knowledge of patients' social context and medical history to deliver high-quality primary care to your patients aged 65+.
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Focus on the prevention and early-stage identification of chronic health problems in your older patients in primary care.
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Understand the most common sexual and reproductive health presentations seen in general practice, particularly for women.
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Learn how to comprehensively manage fertility, pregnancy, menopause and more in the primary care setting.
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Screen, diagnose and treat and most common sexual and reproductive health concerns seen by male patients in general practice.
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Understand common medical presentations in your young patients, from mental health and child safety issues through to dermatological conditions and long-term health problems.
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Understand the fundamentals required to effectively diagnose skin cancer and perform basic treatments in the primary care setting, including dermoscopy, surgical and non-surgical treatments.
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Consolidate essential skills with more advanced dermatoscopy, broaden your therapeutic options, including curette and cautery, and practice various surgical techniques which will prepare you for almost any lesion needing elliptical excision, including lower leg grafting.
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Acquire more advanced skin cancer surgery skills for more complex skin cancer cases, including flaps and grafts, in a highly practical program held in a small group setting with experienced skin cancer doctors and surgical assistants.
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Acquire and hone the most advanced skin cancer surgery techniques on the sensitive and anatomically complex areas of the head and neck. The highly practical workshop is presented by renowned skin cancer surgeons and an experienced team of surgical assistants.
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Acquire and hone the most advanced skin cancer surgery techniques on the sensitive and anatomically complex areas of the nose and lower limb. The highly practical workshop is presented by renowned skin cancer surgeons and an experienced team of surgical assistants.
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The Professional Certificate course will provide the participants with a range of skills and knowledge in the management of benign and malignant non-melanocytic lesions commonly seen in the practice, Melanocytic nevi, Melanoma, facial lesions and acral lesions.
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The Advanced Certificate course will provide the participants with a range of skills and knowledge in the management of nail lesions, mucosal lesions, difficult benign lesions and Melanomas, pink tumors, rare skin tumors, and the broad spectrum of BCC and keratinocyte skin cancer.
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The Professional Diploma course will provide the participants with a range of skills and knowledge in the management of screening children, young adults and older patients, lesions in different skin types, different types of lesions, and patients with multiple moles.
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Learn the basic principles of applying dermatoscopy in inflammatory skin diseases and trichoscopy, common inflammatory dermatoses of the face and trunk, and dermatoscopy in skin of colour.
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This course explores the applications of dermoscopy in diagnosing a range of skin and hair conditions commonly seen in primary care.
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This course offers a comprehensive guide to the principles of dermatopathology and will help you understand and interpret pathology reports.
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Facilitated entirely online with personal 1:1 mentorship from dermoscopy expert A/Prof Andreas Blum, there is an opportunity to consider and interpret dermoscopic images and then receive feedback and elaboration on features and indicators within the image.
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As trusted primary care providers, general practitioners have a unique opportunity to identify and manage patients facing various forms of abuse, violence and neglect, which may have escalated during the Covid pandemic and affect children, adults (often women) and the elderly. The Foundation Certificate of Domestic Abuse and Violence covers the role of the GP in preventing, intervening, supporting and following up victims of suspected abuse, in addition to helping vulnerable patients access support services and continuing care.
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Respiratory complaints are one of the most common presentations in general practice in Australia. The Respiratory Conditions & Infections program helps GPs to diagnose, treat and manage common respiratory conditions in primary care, such as asthma, COPD (including application of the COPD-X guidelines), sinusitis, lung cancer, upper respiratory tract infections (the third most commonly managed presentation in primary care in Australia) and complications, and more.
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Immunisations and vaccinations are the second most common presentation managed in general practice in Australia. This program uses a step-wise approach to help the GP assess patient safety, compare strategies used by vaccines to induce immunity, anticipate vaccine effectiveness and side effects, manage child and adult vaccinations, and recommend an immunisation schedule to minimise the risk of travellers. The program also covers the possible implications of the COVID-19 vaccine on general practice.
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