The Annual Paediatric Professional Development
Program
The Centre for Community Child Health Paediatric Professional Development Program (PDP) provides practical information about developmental-behavioural paediatrics in an engaging format to community paediatricians.
Thanks to feedback from our past attendees, the 2021 PDP will consist of four sessions over two half days via webinar.
Friday 8th October
& Friday 15th October 2021 (9am-12:30pm)
The 26th Annual
Professional Development Program for Community Paediatricians
From The Centre
for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne
The 2021 PDP will
consist of four sessions over two half days via webinar. We are planning a
focus on common developmental paediatric topics such as Learning Difficulties
and pharmacological and behavioural approaches for Behaviour Disorders.
Session 1:
Friday 8 October, 9am-10:30am
Engaging
Parents in Behaviour Management
Dr Billy Garvey,
Consultant Paediatrician, Centre for Community Child Health and General
Medicine, RCH
Jennifer Dix, Clinical Psychologist, Align
Psychology
Monique Thompson, Speech Pathologist, Illustrator
and Community Liaison Officer, Relationships Australia Victoria
Session 2:
Friday 8 October, 10:45am-12:30pm
Psychopharmacology
for Community Paediatricians: managing aggression, tourette's and metabolic
syndrome (and a discussion about cannabis)
Associate
Professor Daryl Efron, Consultant Paediatrician, Centre for Community Child
Health and General Medicine, RCH
Session 3:
Friday 15 October, 9am-10:30am
The
Intersection of Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health in Children and
Youth
Dr. Jenny
Harrison, Child and Youth Psychiatrist, Alfred CYMHS
Session 4:
Friday 15 October, 10:45am-12:30pm
A
Paediatrician’s Guide to Learning Difficulties
Ms Sophie Morris,
Educational and Developmental Psychologist, University of Melbourne
Associate
Professor Gehan Roberts, Consultant Paediatrician, Centre for Community Child
Health, RCH
Registration
Details
To register, please go
to Eventbrite here. Please click on
either date, you will then be given the option to select tickets for both days
($165 incl GST) or a single day ($100 incl GST).
Sessions will be
recorded.
Note:
if you are a paediatric trainee please contact melissa.hirst@rch.org.au to obtain a 50%
discount code to be used at checkout.