Eating Disorder Core Skills: eLearning for Fertility Care Professionals
Self-paced online short course, available for immediate start
Research suggests that the prevalence of current and past eating disorder diagnoses is higher among people seeking fertility treatment compared to the general population. Furthermore, females experiencing an eating disorder are twice as likely than the general population to have received fertility treatment or assisted reproductive techniques. Health professionals working in the fertility care space play a key role in helping to prevent the experience of disordered eating and eating disorders as well as being able to identify and support a person who is experiencing concerns.
Eating Disorder Core Skills: eLearning for Fertility Care Professionals is comprehensive foundational eating disorder training developed specifically for those working in fertility care. The training will equip fertility care professionals with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond when a person is experiencing an eating disorder, understand shared care in the stepped system of care, and prevent and minimise harm for eating disorders in the context of fertility care. Eating Disorder Core Skills: eLearning for Fertility Care Professionals is a 90-minute, self-paced and interactive online training and includes practical real-life scenarios and activities, videos from leaders in the field and people with a lived experience of an eating disorder, up-to-date resources and a formal assessment.
Modules:
Module 1: Early Identification (Part 1) covers an introduction to eating disorder diagnoses, their prevalence and impact.
Module 2: Early Identification (Part 2) focuses on the knowledge and skills needed by a health professional to effectively recognise when a person may be experiencing an eating disorder, including the risk factors and warning signs.
Module 3: Initial Response covers the knowledge and skills needed by a health professional to effectively engage and respond when a person may be experiencing an eating disorder.
Module 4: Shared Care focuses on the knowledge needed by a fertility care health professional to provide shared care and support a person towards recovery.
Module 5: Prevention and Harm Reduction covers eating disorder prevention and harm minimisation and will explore the implications and considerations applicable to fertility care providers.
Learning Outcomes
• Identify clinical features of eating disorders and their impacts.
• Identify risk factors and warning signs of eating disorders and disordered eating.
• Apply appropriate screening tools.
• Identify the appropriate referral pathway for people experiencing an eating disorder.
• Describe the system of care and care team for eating disorders.
• Identify role and responsibilities in providing shared care for people with eating disorders.
• Explain protective factors against disordered eating and eating disorders and how these may be strengthened
• Apply the principle of “do no harm” in respect of eating disorder risk in clinical practice
• Contribute to safe and affirming food, eating and body image environments within scope of professional role
• Identify and partner with vulnerable populations with inclusive and accessible practices.
Presenter/s:
Dr Genia Rozen – Gynaecologist and Fertility Specialist
Dr Tamara Hunter – Gynaecologist and Fertility Specialist
Ruby Beezley – Accredited Practising Dietitian
Natalie Scott – Accredited Practising Dietitian
Sarah Lensen - NHMRC of Research Fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
This course counts towards 1.5 hours of category A CPD.
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