Migraine Management for Practitioners
A passion to share specialist knowledge and skills in the treatment of migraine, Prof Tissa Wijeratne’s new venture, Migraine Management for Practitioners, provides healthcare professionals with the latest clinical advances to improve patient lives. The course includes a comprehensive and practical diagnosis approach, management plans for acute headache attacks and preventative strategies to manage migraines. Tissa believes by transferring knowledge to primary healthcare professionals, headache sufferers will be diagnosed and treated more timely manner, rather than waiting for a specialist care.
OVERVIEW
Migraines are a leading cause of adult disability with an estimated five million headache sufferers in Australia (GBD collaborators, Lancet Neurology, 2017). A lack of access to neurologists means primary healthcare physicians need to understand the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of migraines to effectively manage their many patients who suffer from this debilitating condition. Education focused on the essentials of migraine management, which transfers specialist knowledge from neurologists to general practitioners, will improve the lives of these patients.
Course Director Tissa Wijeratne, Chair of Academic Medicine and Director of Neurology at Western Health, and his team of neurologists have developed this dynamic course to capture the most recent clinical research and developments in migraine management. The course includes a comprehensive and practical diagnosis approach, management plans for acute headache attacks and preventative strategies to manage migraines. Tissa believes by transferring knowledge to primary healthcare professionals, headache sufferers will be diagnosed and treated more timely manner, rather than waiting for a specialist care.
DESIGNED FOR
Primary health care physicians who require an understanding of headache management, including general practitioners, physician trainees, practice nurses, general physicians and medical students.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
COURSE UNITS
- Tutorial 1: Acute Migraine
- Tutorial 2: Chronic Migraine
- Tutorial 3: Medication Overuse Headache
- Tutorial 4: Other Primary Headaches
- Tutorial 5: Secondary Headaches
- Tutorial 6: Demystifying Migraine
The course will provide knowledge and skills on:
- Diagnostic criteria
- “Red flags” and consideration of differential diagnoses
- Preventative measures encompassing non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic therapies
COURSE DIRECTOR
Tissa Wijeratne
AUTHORS- Mina Ghaly
- Robert Henneberry
- Geraldine Ng
- Jo Lyn Ng
- Mei Yan Ngun
- Chun Seng Phua
- Fatemeh Rezania
- Angelos Sharobeam
- Melissa Tang
- Hans Tu
- Nirosen Vijiaratnam
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