Short courses at Sydney Medical School
Sydney Medical School offers a wide range of short professional development courses for health professionals through its clinical schools, disciplines and associated research institutes.
Courses marked with * are accredited for Continuing Medical Education (CME) points. . Others may be awarded CME points on request to your relevant association or professional body.
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Topic areas
Sydney Medical School offers short and professional development courses in the following areas:
Infectious Diseases | Injury Prevention & Management | Infectious Diseases | Medical Humanities & Bioethics | Mental Health | Pain Management | Pathology | Public Health | Research | |Smoking and Smoking Cessation | Surgical skills | Trauma skills | Tuberculosis
Injury Prevention & Management
• Injury epidemiology, prevention and control
• Falls prevention in the older person
• Injury prevention
Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Various - visit the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (CVELiM) for details, including:
• BETH 5202 Human and Animal Research Ethics
• BETH 5203 Ethics and Public Health
• BETH 5204 Clinical Ethics
• BETH 5205 Ethics and Mental Health
Mental Health
The University Centre for Rural Health (North Coast) is offering a range of online learning programs in 2012. Click here for details.
• Certificate in essential skills for CBT
• CBT for Complex Cases
• Addressing Roadblocks and Repairing Ruptures in CBT
Pain Management
• Pain Management multidisciplinary short course
Pathology
• Introductory Histotechniques
• Introductory Immunohistochemistry
Public Health
Various courses - visit Sydney School of Public Health for more information
Research
• Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology
• Clinical Trials
Surgical skills
• Arthroscopic skills
• Advanced Arthroscopic skills
• Laparoscopic Surgery - foundation skills
• Laparoscopic Surgery - intermediate skills
Trauma skills
Infectious Diseases
• Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention and Control
Smoking and Smoking Cessation
• Tobacco Dependence and Treatment*
Tuberculosis
• Tuberculosis Reserach Day
• Advanced Course in Tuberculosis
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