Flexible Short Courses

Our flexible course development process makes extensive use of a Knowledge, Process, Practice, or KPP model. This model has been developed and widely used by OPME to blueprint the key educational features of a flexibly delivered program. It provides concise specifications around how it will support its learning outcomes; how the learning activity sequence will unfold, the fit of assessment and the key resource elements needed to support delivery.

OPME’s support for flexibly delivered courses includes development of the following:

• Fully online or mixed flexible mode courses
• Customised learning management system or integration into existing proprietary system
• Staff training for online facilitation
• Online course coordination and administration services
• Course design to meet internal or external accreditation standards
• Specialised case or problem based course structures

Samples include:

Client: Cancer Australia

Participants: Health professionals who are members of a cancer multidisciplinary team or who wish to set up a new team.

Project: Develop and deliver an online educational module to improve multidisciplinary care for cancer patients.

Client: a joint initiative between NSW Health and The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Chapter of Addiction Medicine).

Participants: General Practitioners

Project: This online course provides experienced prescribers of opioid replacement therapies with an opportunity to increase their skills in the prescribing of methadone and buprenorphine-naloxone by working through a series of case studies and engaging with colleagues in an interactive facilitated forum.

Client: Pharmacy Guild of Australia

Participants: Practicing pharmacists

Project: A six week case-based online learning program testing knowledge processes and communication skills needed by pharmacists before undertaking formal MMR accreditation.

Client: College of Pathologists

Participants: General Practitioners

Project: Extended case scenarios with expert feedback allowing GPs to self test their test ordering knowledge and practice. Includes a databased cost comparison feature allowing GPs to compare themselves with both their peers and experts.

Client: NSW Health Department

Participants: GPs undertaking pharmacotherapy accreditation

Project: A five week online program using preparatory knowledge, case scenarios and a professional practice forum to explore pharmacotherapy issues. Compulsory for all GPs who wish to prescribe Methadone, Buprenorphine and Naltrexone. Project involved conversion of existing face-to-face course.

Client: Coppleson Committee for Continuing Medical Education

Participants: Laboratory technicians identifying malaria parasites

Project: Four week online course which uses extended cases to step through the diagnostic process and skills needed for reliable parasite identification. Final reports are discussed in professional practice forum. Project involved conversion of existing face-to-face course.

Client: Melanoma Foundation

Participants: Medical Students and General Practitioners

Project: An independent study module based on case scenarios and over 200 images of skin lesions aimed at improving diagnosis of skin cancer and promoting dermoscopy techniques.

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