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If you have any ideas for a PR&CRM activity that you would like to see offered, please call us (+61 3 9417 1699) or let us know by e-mail. Similarly if you have developed your own PR&CRM activity that you may think the wider Fellowship would be interested in, please contact us.

Here are some practical examples from other Fellows:

Practice Visits

Practice visits: a learning experience - interview with Keith Harrison

O&G Vol 5 No 3 Sept 2003

Dr Harrison participated in the New Zealand practice visit program established by the New Zealand Committee's Practice Improvement and Audit Subcommittee with great interest and enthusiasm. This was in part due to his prior involvement in College and industrial issues. He agrees with the perception that obstetricians and gynaecologists are 'vulnerable to inadequacies in practice' which can 'creep up on you.'More ( 61KB)

Tear Repair

Tear repairs: broadening an educational initiative
An interview with Dr Jackie Smalldridge

O&G Vol 5 No 4 Nov 2003

One of these sessions was based on third and fourth degree tear repairs. Dr Jackie Smalldridge, a Fellow of the College with a special interest in urogynaecology, developed, organised and conducted this workshop More ( 130KB)

Informed Consent

Changing the perception of informed consent - an interview with Timothy O'Dowd FRANZCOG

O&G Vol 4 No 1 March 2002

In May 2000, colleagues Dr Timothy O’Dowd, Dr Andrew Cary, Dr Michael Flynn and Dr Gary Swift established Gold Coast Obstetrics and Gynaecologist Specialist Services (GCOGSS). The focus, in terms of the practice improvement activity that was submitted to the College, is for this service to provide pre-operative education sessions for patients to assist in obtaining informed consent of procedures.More ( 59KB)

Patient Records

Improving patient records - an interview with Neil Tamlin

O&G Vol 4 No 1 March 2002

Dr Neil Tamlin manages his practice between the North Eastern Hospital in Adelaide and Modbury and Glen Osmond hospitals. The task of managing and maintaining patient information between three practices persuaded him to perform a total review of how these records and the associated correspondence were managed, stored and retrieved.

As a result of this audit, he decided to undertake a total 'computerisation' of his patient records, which now forms the basis of his practice improvement project More ( 39KB)

Ultrasound

Scanning into the future - an interview with Dr Margaret Booth

O&G Vol 5No 1 March 2003

With previous ultrasound experience in emergency scanning at St George Hospital, both in the labour ward and the antenatal clinic, Margaret Booth decided that she wanted to improve the standard of her practice.

After recently reading a practice improvement information flyer printed in O&G, Margaret Booth considered following the same framework to implement the introduction of scanning into her practice. She recognised that this framework would rovide a 'systematic' approach of incorporating change More ( 52KB)

TVT

Refining the approach to TVT - an interview with Paul Truscott FRANZCOG

O&G Vol 4 No 1 March 2002

Dr Paul Truscott is a gynaecologist at the Mater Private Specialist Centre, Redland Hospital in Cleveland, Queensland. He has recently completed a practice improvement initiative based on refining his existing technique of performing the procedure known as TVT, tension-free vaginal tape More ( 31KB)

RVF Support Network

RVF Support Network Inc - an interview with Wendy Powell

O&G Vol 5 No 4 Nov 2003

Wendy Powell has been a long-term sufferer of a recto-vaginal fistula (RVF) which occurred during the birth of her first son in 1997. As with most serious perineal tears the shock and impact that this injury caused to both Wendy and her family resulted in ongoing suffering in a variety of emotional, physical and social aspects of her life. Despite three unsupported painful years of enduring treatment and repair of the fistula, Wendy has decided to 'do something about this' and so the Recto-Vaginal Fistula Support Network (RVFSN) was conceived.More ( 79KB)

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