The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Victoria’s Telehealth Specialist service is committed to helping rural Victorians receive high quality, specialist health services within their own communities. Using a purpose built platform, the Flying Doctor Telehealth (FDT) service assists rural and remote populations to conveniently access appointments either at their local health service, or from the comfort of their own home – removing the time and financial impacts of travel.
FDT is now proud to present their new webinar series, an educational series aimed at educating and supporting GPs working with rural and remote populations. Designed in a ‘Lunch and Learn’ format, FDT is producing this series to improve knowledge for service provision in limited resource settings and support GPs with identifying referral triggers. GPs in rural communities can often work alone, or have reduced support compared to metro based GPs and may not always have ready access to the most up to date information.
The first webinars in this series are Endocrinology focused, with RFDS Victoria expanding the presentations to other FDT specialist services in the future, so make sure you keep an eye out for future communications. You can also register to receive notifications of future webinars by emailing flyingdoctortelehealth@rfdsvic.com.au with the subject line ‘Webinar Notification’.
Topic: Age Related Differences in Glycaemic Control, Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Treatment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Date: Tuesday 28 September
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Specialist: Dr Natalie Nanayakkara, Endocrinologist, Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute
Register: https://rfdsvic.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016311566314/WN_ds45xhyVSkCyZ7NzCeJ6gg
This presentation is suitable for GPs, diabetes educators and other interested clinicians