Time: 8am-1pm

Event description 
This course is a requirement for GPs who wish to provide shared maternity care with Mater Mothers' Hospital.

The focus is on providing quality maternity shared care in the general practice setting, with up-to-date best practice information provided by Mater Mothers' staff specialists in obstetrics, midwifery, obstetric medicine, maternal fetal medicine, pharmacology and physiotherapy. 

Topics include:

• First trimester presentations and recommended screening tests
• Screening for fetal chromosome and genetic conditions
• Medical complications in pregnancy (GDM, hypertension, preeclampsia) 
• Prescribing in pregnancy 
• Recommended immunisations
• Perinatal mental health 
• Domestic violence screening
• Physiotherapy in the perinatal period 
• Communication with Mater Mothers

If you have recently completed the Certificate of Women's Health (DRANZCOG), Antenatal ALM (RACGP), or an affiliated alignment program, then the Online Bridging and Realignment Education is an alternative option for you.