High Intensity Headaches
How do we help five million headache sufferers in Australia?
Tissa Wijeratne, Chair, Academic Medicine & Head, Neurology, Western Health believes part of the solution is to pass on the knowledge and expertise from Neurology specialists, by creating a CPD program that equip General Practitioners and Physicians with in-depth knowledge in this field and to promote headache management within their scope. By transferring knowledge to a wider population, sufferers will be treated earlier rather than having to wait for years to months for a specialist care.
Tissa in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Mobile Learning Unit is in the final stages of developing the High Intensity Headaches Education e-learning course. Doctors will have flexibility to study in their own time, pace and location.
Learning Outcomes:
- How to take a history in headache medicine
- Migraine
- IHS three beta Classification and unusual headache disorders (such as hypnic headache, exertional headaches and others not covered in the other talks)
- Episodic Migraine management (including contraindications, complication and minimising risk of MOH)
- Chronic Migraine Management (including prophylaxis)
- Cluster and other TACs headaches
- Medication Overuse Headache
- Secondary headache disorders, including thunderclap and IIH
- Women’s issues in migraine
- Psycho-social aspects and management issues
For more information about the course please contact us at mobile-learning@unimelb.edu.au