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Rural Health Webinar Series – Lifestyle medicine in rural practice: small changes, big impact. Members login for free access About RACGP online events

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Type: On-demand
Recorded: 3 Aug 2023

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Email: RACGP Rural
Call: 1800 636 764

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Rural Health Webinar Series – Lifestyle medicine in rural practice: small changes, big impact.

On-demand recorded 3 Aug 2023

This instalment of the Rural Health Webinar Series explores the lifestyle medicine approach used in rural practice.

The webinar will focus on how to apply lifestyle medicine approaches to the prevention and reversal of chronic diseases through the modification of behavioural, social and environmental drivers. Examples in Aboriginal health and remote workplaces will be used. The foundations of health coaching will also be discussed.

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Learning outcomes

  1. Describe the lifestyle medicine approach.
  2. Translate some of the ways the lifestyle medicine approach is used in rural practice, using Aboriginal health and remote workplaces as examples.
  3. Apply the foundations of health coaching.

This event is part of Rural Health Webinar Series. Events in this series are:

Facilitators

Dr Hung The Nguyen

Hung has a long-term commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Multicultural Health. He has worked extensively as a GP and Medical and Cultural Educator in urban, rural and remote Aboriginal community health service throughout the Northern Territory and Victoria. He currently works as a GP at Bunurong Health Service, Dandenong, Victoria - an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service where he is the GP Lead and GP Supervisor. He was the Inaugural Censor for RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health for 9 years and Director of Medical and Cultural Education for the Northern Territory General Practice Education for 5 years where he oversaw GP education for the Territory. He is a Medical Educator at RWAV. Hung currently sits on several Primary Care and Health Education boards: Health Education Australia Limited; he is the President of Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine; Chair of Therapeutic Guidelines Limited; Chair of VACCHO GP Expert Advisory Group; Council member AMA Victoria; and Advisory Committee member for the Australasian Institute of Clinical Governance and the AMC IMG Advisory Group. Through his appointments, he is concerned with positive patient journeys through the healthcare system and patient engagement in the quality improvement process in health care.

Amelia Twiss

Amelia is a psychologist, executive coach and team dynamics consultant who works with CEOs and senior leaders who want to support their teams well and make a meaningful impact through their work. Her experience spans the private and public sectors including mining, oil and gas, professional services, tertiary education, health, logistics and government. Her expertise is in organisational psychology, team development, coaching psychology, lifestyle medicine and psychometrics. Amelia has presented at industry conferences on topics related to psychology at work and is quoted in media articles about psychology. She is a Non-Executive Director and Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. Amelia is an MBA Leadership Consultant for Deakin University and a Subject Matter Expert for the Psychology of motivation and work for RMIT Online. She also acts as Psychologist Onboard offshore oil and gas installations, facilitates workshops on Wellbeing and Fitness for Work at mining camps across the Pilbara and conducts psychological adaptability assessments for the Australian Antarctic Division.

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