Scientific Sessions
Fourteen topics across two days
Select the topic your work belongs to when you submit. Fit is one of the three criteria reviewers score.
Current ACLS guidance and the changes since the last revision.
Areas of focus
- Guideline changes and supporting evidence
- Compression quality and team roles
- Emergent medication and dosing
- Post-arrest care and targeted temperature management
- Leading a code as senior clinician
Running safe remote consultations and monitoring programmes.
Areas of focus
- What a remote assessment can establish
- Remote monitoring and alert management
- Documentation and billing for virtual visits
- Licensure across state lines
- Converting a virtual visit to in person
Screening, brief intervention and prescribing within a primary care appointment.
Areas of focus
- Screening tools for short appointments
- First-line prescribing and review intervals
- Brief intervention techniques
- Risk assessment and escalation
- Referral pathways
Multimodal approaches to persistent pain and supported tapering.
Areas of focus
- Multimodal analgesia
- Taper planning and patient retention
- Non-pharmacological options with evidence
- Managing expectations in short consultations
- Documentation and prescribing oversight
Screening intervals, risk stratification and results conversations.
Areas of focus
- Current screening intervals
- Risk stratification in practice
- Contraception and perimenopause
- Communicating results and uncertainty
- Access barriers and follow-up
Early identification of developmental concern and onward referral.
Areas of focus
- Developmental surveillance in routine visits
- Standardised screening tools
- Raising concern with families
- Referral pathways and waiting times
- Coordination with education services
Rapid assessment, stabilisation and escalation in acute environments.
Areas of focus
- Structured rapid assessment
- Stabilisation priorities
- Recognising deterioration
- Escalation protocols
- Handover under pressure
Practical steps toward equitable care across language, culture and disability.
Areas of focus
- Working with interpreters
- Health literacy and plain explanation
- Disability and clinic access
- Bias in clinical decision-making
- Measuring equity in your caseload
Scope of practice, consent, documentation and liability.
Areas of focus
- Scope of practice by state
- Consent and capacity
- Defensible documentation
- Liability and indemnity
- Raising concerns about practice
New agents, deprescribing and prescribing safety systems.
Areas of focus
- New agents and indications
- Deprescribing in complex patients
- Interaction checking and alert fatigue
- Prescribing safety systems
- Monitoring requirements
Dietary counselling for diabetes, cardiovascular and renal disease.
Areas of focus
- Evidence by condition
- Counselling within appointment length
- Working with dietetics
- Cultural and budget constraints
- Measuring change
Team and organisational interventions that reduce burnout.
Areas of focus
- Organisational drivers
- Workload and rota design
- Peer support models
- Recognising burnout in colleagues
- Limits of individual resilience training
Skills for shaping services rather than only delivering them.
Areas of focus
- Making a case to budget holders
- Leading a former peer group
- Managing change and resistance
- Mentoring and succession planning
- Negotiating scope and resource
Cognitive screening, medication review and goals-of-care planning.
Areas of focus
- Cognitive screening in a busy clinic
- Delirium, depression and dementia
- Structured medication review
- Goals-of-care conversations
- Supporting family carers