MIPS Annual Reportt 2011/12
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Membe M er risk educa ation MIIPS membe ers are entitled to the e importantt membership benefitt of membeer risk educ cation. Risk ed ducation prrovides me embers with h contemp porary risk manageme ent educatiion/medico o legal ad dvice, as we ell as valua able Contin nuing Profe essional Ed ducation (C CPD pointss) and the potential p fo or me ember collegiate inte eraction and d support. Imp portantly, the MIPS Constitu utional object ‘to promote ho onourable and d to discourage irregular praactice’ is at the e forefront of our o risk k education sttrategies for members. m Mem mber risk educcation is design ned to help members betterr manage risk in their day-to oday y working life, to help preve ent adverse ou utcomes to pattients, or in the e event adverse outcomes tto patients do occur, help me embers mitigatte the outcomes and to assist in the defen nce of any alle egations of sub optimal heaalthcare. Any expenditure e off me embership fund ds on risk edu ucation factors s in these impo ortant conside erations. During 2011/12 M MIPS provided d 42 member risk education n workshops throughout Australia in the A Autumn and Spring S program ms. The ese workshop ps were well atttended, with overwhelming o gly positive fee edback provide ed by memberrs through wo orkshop eva aluations. MIP PS continues to develop relevant and con ntemporary in house conten nt for risk educcation worksho ops whilst also o sou urcing the servvices of established expert service provid ders of risk education for health professioonals. Risk edu ucation workshops desig gned specifica ally for the nee eds of our denttal members were w also intro oduced and w were well attended and well rec ceived by denttal members. Additionally, mem mbers have acccess to on-lin ne risk educattion modules. During 2011/1 12, the modulee ‘Dealing with h Difficult Pattients’ was added. This mod dule is a fusion of an edited d filmed workshop including contributions by members, as well as inte eractive opporrtunities for pa articipating me embers. A furth her on-line mo odule ‘Conversations at the end of Life’ fo ocussing on stra ategies to dea al with managing terminally ill patients hass been develo oped and will be b provided too members in the t near future e. In all a there will be e five on-line risk r education n modules ava ailable to mem mbers. Each ye ear several hu ndred membe ers complete an a on--line module. All MIPS risk edu ucation workshops and on-line modules p provide an opp portunity for members m to gaain valuable CPD points whiich n a mandattory registratio on standard for the Medical and Dental Bo oards of Austrralia. Member attendance at risk educatio on is now workshops and/o or the complettion of any on--line module a also enables MIPS M medical members to m meet the mand datory quirement under the Premiu um Support Sc cheme (PSS) tto complete risk manageme ent in the yearr the subsidy is s provided. req Me ember risk edu ucation is also provided in th he quarterly ne ewsletter (MIP PS Review articles and casee studies) and d in website ne ews upd dates or directt bulletins to members m / gro oups of membe ers as required and or as ap ppropriate. MIP PS commitme ent to provide risk r education n to Internation nal Medical Grraduates (IMG G) continues inn conjunction with w org ganisations such as the Victtorian Medical Post Graduatte Foundation n and directly to t IMG groupss within genera al practice div visions. In currrent development is a tailore ed education p program for IM MG’s focussing g on workplacce communication and Engliish lan nguage skills a and reduction of medico lega al risk. This in nitiative will soon be trialled. MIP PS medico-leg gal presenterss also delivere ed risk educati on presentatio ons at a numb ber of hospitalss throughout Australia A (as part p of the t hospital ed ducation progrrams principally aimed at ju unior doctors), at various universities and conferences and a to variouss oth her stakeholde ers. The provission of such va aluable educa ation demonstrrates MIPS co ommitment to members by providing p rele evant risk edu ucation and a genuine g willing gness to passs on our consid derable knowledge and expperience to benefit the widerr com mmunity. A number n of new w innovative risk education activities a are i n developmen nt and will further enhance tthe benefits off MIPS me embership.