This video series from the Paediatric Master Class offers Australian GPs crucial, evidence-based updates to enhance primary care for children and adolescents.
You will gain essential insights into managing high-volume, complex conditions, starting with ADHD. Recognizing that specialist wait times can reach 501 days for Category 3 referrals in Queensland, GPs are vital to the solution. The sessions clarify collaborative care models, prescribing rules, and provide practical resources like Health Pathways and ADPA guidelines to support shared management.
A key focus is problematic asthma, emphasizing the new paradigm of “zero tolerance for asthma attacks”. You will learn to identify red flags, noting that using three or more SABA reliever canisters per year signifies increased risk, and review the shift toward anti-inflammatory reliever therapy (AIR/MART) in adolescents.
For adolescent health, the series addresses common presentations like school refusal (affecting 4% of young people), framing discussions through a trauma-informed lens. Experts also offer practical guidance on complex areas such as navigating Gillick competence and confidential health discussions.
Additionally, topics include practical management of infant settling—helping families address concerns while avoiding overmedicalization of reflux or tongue tie—and robust, evidence-based protocols for treating functional constipation, reinforcing the safety of osmotic laxatives and proper weaning. This series is designed to increase your confidence and capability in diverse paediatric practice.