185378 - ReturnToWork GP: Work Injury Insurance

Have you ever had to manage a patient resistant to returning to work?
Do you avoid work injury insurance patients?
Do you find it difficult to coach your patients to their best health outcomes?
Would you like a clinical support service to assist you with your work injured patients?

If you answered yes to any of the above then the ReturnToWorkGP free online course is for you.

ReturnToWorkGP helps busy GPs with practical strategies for effective coaching and counselling, including how to recognise and address barriers to recovery and psychosocial factors.

Developed by ReturnToWorkSA in partnership with ModMed, this self-directed online course also covers navigating the Return to Work Scheme, completing the Work Capacity Certificate and understanding the support services available to enable their patients to successfully transition back into work, sooner.  

GPs play an essential role in supporting and coaching patients through their return to work journey. 

ReturnToWorkGP has been designed to provide GPs, registrars, practice nurses and practice managers with the skills, tools and knowledge to help guide and progress your patients’ recovery and return to work.  

D1. Communication skills and the patient-doctor relationship

• Communication is clear, respectful, empathic and appropriate to the person and their sociocultural context

D2. Applied professional knowledge and skills

• Comprehensive and holistic management plans are developed collaboratively

D3. Population health and the context of general practice

• The impacts of the social determinants of health are identified and addressed

D4. Professional and ethical role

• Professional knowledge and skills are reviewed and developed

D5. Organisational and legal dimensions

• Medico-legal requirements are integrated into accurate documentation

• Occupational medicine

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