Online learning

Cancer Council Australia has developed a cancer screening module, available on the RACGP’s gplearning website.

The module offers GPs the latest information and approaches to screening for major forms of cancer including breast cancer, cervical cancer, melanoma, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer and bowel cancer.

Activity can be completed in one or a number of sessions. The module takes two hours to complete and has been approved for four Category 2 QA&CPD points.

Access the module at the gplearning website.

Cancer Learning is an online education development designed for health professionals working in cancer care. The site aims to:  

• consolidate evidence-based learning activities, resources and information in cancer care available across Australia and overseas
• provide a first port of call for health professionals, organisations and cancer networks who wish to undertake, build or plan professional development programs and activities in cancer care
• enable resources and information to be shared by cancer care providers across Australia.

Learning activities, information and resources are organised in themes including multidisciplinary care, coordination of care, supportive care, fundamentals of oncology and the latest treatments and evidence based practice.

Cancer Learning

National Cancer Nursing Education (EdCaN) is auspiced by Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Accessed via the Cancer Learning website, EdCaN's educational resources are designed to support the professional development of all nurses in cancer care, to assist:

• nurses achieve the core capabilities required in cancer control
• specialist cancer nurses benchmark against the specialist cancer nurse competency standards
• educators facilitate learning for all nurses in cancer control.

Are you confident about your role in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program?

Developed for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Australian Practice Nursing Association, these modules are now available to non-members.

Select the links below for more information and instuctions to access the modules.

• APNA members and non-members
• RACGP members and non-members

Cancer Council Victoria has developed three online learning modules on the topic of Cancer in General Practice. These modules feature:

• recent evidence and initiatives for prevention and screening,
• case studies relating to the different ways bowel cancer can be detected in patients, including through the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, and
• a discussion of the interplay between cancer and genetics.

The modules can be accessed via ThinkGP until early 2011 or through the links below:

• Module 1: Prevention and screening
• Module 2: Bowel cancer
• Module 3: Familial cancer and family history