This workshop aims to assist GPs whose practice includes more extensive management of acute and chronic injuries and is of particular relevance for rural GP Proceduralists.  Some suturing experience is recommended for participants to benefit from the procedural sessions.

Workshop Content

Demonstration and Practical Sessions:

• Abrasions and abscesses 
• Simple lacerations and glue
• Difficult lacerations
• Lipoma and cyst removal
• Wounds in difficult places
• Skin biopsy
• Facial wounds:
  • Skin tear
  • Linear cut
  • Animal bites
  • Avulsion

Practical Sessions:

• Lateral canthotomy
• Free suturing

Presentations:

• Foreign bodies (simple)
• Treatment options for abscesses
• Wound care and minor trauma incorporating minor burns
• Treatment options for abrasions, clean and ragged lacerations
• Bandaging techniques
• Managing hypertrophic and keloid scarring
• Removing foreign bodies from eyes (advanced)

Workshop Inclusions

• Simulation models
• Didactic sessions
• All meals and refreshments
• Limited places to maximise practical learning time

Training Grants

The Australian Government is offering training grants of up to $2000 per day to rural and remote procedural and emergency medicine GPs. The Rural Procedural Grants Program provides financial assistance for procedural GPs in rural and remote areas to access relevant activities in order to assist them in maintaining and updating their skills. 

Reapproval for this educational activity will be sought for the 2026-2028 Triennium.

For further information about the grants contact:
RACGP National Rural Faculty
1800 636 764  
rural.procedural.grants@racgp.org.au