Office Gynecology Training for Family Physicians
Location: Online and at the Calgary Women's Health Centre
Speaker: Stephen Wood MD FRCSC
Course Overview
Family physicians and other primary care practitioners have to be increasingly competent in office skills and procedures that are more commonly associated with specialist practice, for example, Gynecological office procedures.
This online portal serves as an ongoing Gynecological office procedure training opportunity for you - family physicians and other primary care practitioners, in Intrauterine Device (IUD) insertion and Endometrial Biopsy practice. It is also a platform for you to have ongoing conversation with specialists, providing your feedback on what you further need for office Gynecological training.
Register for a training sessions
Registration fee: $200
Please email Crystal Ryszewski to be assigned a future session. Following that, you will receive registration details from the CME&PD Office.
Crystal Ryszewski
crystal.ryszewski@ahs.ca
**Due to high demand for this course, the seat assignment is strictly first-come first-served based on clarification of your AHS privileges eligibility. You won't get a training session booked unless completing and sending back the paperwork for this aspect.**
Course Objectives
After completion of the IUD Insertion and Endometrial Biopsy training, participants will be able to :
- Recognize indications and test performance of endometrial biopsy
- Define long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) and recognize opportunities to the use of LARC options
- Demonstrate the approaches to pre-procedure assessment and counselling for IUD
- Demonstrate and perform endometrial biopsy and IUD insertion
- Identify and discuss management of issues after endometrial biopsy and IUD insertion, including mechanism of action
Accreditation
This Group Learning course has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 12.0 Mainpro+ credits. (2 Mainpro+ Credits per hour)
Please be aware that participants are required to complete all components of the course in order to be eligible to receive the certified credits. Participants cannot opt out of the post-reflective activity to partially claim certified credits.
Course Components
Pre-training needs assessment survey *
* After you register for the training course, you will receive the access to pre-training survey.
Pre-training podcasts *
* After you register for the training course, you will receive access pre-training podcasts.
Hands-on training session
3-month post-training follow-up survey
(i.e. reflective activity)
Disclosure
This course has received no commercial support.

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