Workshop
The Cutting Edge: Managing Skin and Soft Tissue Injuries is a hands on skills training workshop utilising synthetic and animal tissue simulation models.
Suitable for: GPs, GP Proceduralists and GP Trainees
Dates
About
This workshop aims to assist GPs whose practice includes more extensive management of acute and chronic injuries and is of particular relevance for rural GP Proceduralists. Some suturing experience is recommended for participants to benefit from the procedural sessions.
Workshop Content
Demonstration and Practical Sessions:
- Abrasions and abscesses
- Simple lacerations and glue
- Difficult lacerations
- Lipoma and cyst removal
- Wounds in difficult places
- Skin biopsy
- Facial wounds:
- Skin tear
- Linear cut
- Animal bites
- Avulsion
Practical Sessions
- Lateral canthotomy
- Free suturing
Presentations
- Foreign bodies (simple)
- Treatment options for abscesses
- Wound care and minor trauma incorporating minor burns
- Treatment options for abrasions, clean and ragged lacerations
- Bandaging techniques
- Managing hypertrophic and keloid scarring
- Removing foreign bodies from eyes (advanced)
Workshop Inclusions
- Simulation models
- Didactic sessions
- All meals and refreshments
- Limited places to maximise practical learning time
Training Grants:
The Australian Government is offering training grants of $2000 per day to rural and remote procedural and emergency medicine GPs. The Rural Procedural Grants Program provides financial assistance for procedural GPs in rural and remote areas to access relevant activities in order to assist them in maintaining and updating their skills.
Reapproval for this educational activity for a 1 Day Rural Procedural Grant in Emergency or Surgery will be sought for the 2026-2028 Triennium.
For further information about the grants contact:
RACGP National Rural Faculty
1800 636 764
rural.procedural.grants@racgp.org.au
2026 Fee
WA Participant: $1010
Non-WA Participant: $1160
Workshop content, date and convenors may be subject to change or cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances.
Convenors
Accreditations or CPD Approvals
Reapproval in the RACGP and ACRRM CPD Program for the 2026-2028 Triennium.
Testimonials
"The training facilities provide the best opportunities for hand-on training and the acquisition of practical skills such as suturing."
"The opportunity to improve practical skills was invaluable. "
"Engaging presentations."
"I became more confident with wider knowledge in management."
- Past Workshop Participants
Venue
CTEC
The University of Western Australia
Entrance No.2
Hackett Drive, Crawley
Perth, Western Australia
For more information contact
Elisha Thompson
Senior Course Coordinator
T +61 8 6488 8695
E elisha.thompson@uwa.edu.au
CTEC acknowledges the support of the following:
