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DRIVERS 2021 Program

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7.30am Registrations open for workshop participants
7.45am Pre-conference Workshops (1 hour)
  WORKSHOP: Quality improvement: A quick 101 for publishing and research Dr Casey Nottage
WORKSHOP: Managing your professional brand online: the why and how Ms Stephanie Swain
8.15am Registrations open for remaining guests (the coffee machine is on and waiting!)
DRIVERS SESSION ONE
9.00am Welcome to DRIVERS 2021 Dr Katie Blunt and Dr Jessica Paynter
Welcome to Country Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation
Introduction to the North West Victorian Regional Training Hub Assoc. Prof. Janelle Brennan
9.30am KEYNOTE Quality Improvement: The secret hiding in plain sight Dr Nicola Yuen
10.00am MORNING TEA
DRIVERS SESSION TWO
10.15am Dynamic Oral Scientific Presentations (6 mins & 2 mins Q&A)
10.20am 1. Long-term mortality following a medical emergency team call at an Australian regional hospital Mr Nathan Dalton
10.28am 2. A retrospective audit of post-operative Diabetes control at Goulburn Valley Health Hospital Dr Aria Nasteka
10.36am 3. Improving the quality of presentations at multidisciplinary team meetings in regional cancer care Dr Laura Panozzo
10.44am 4. Representation of women at Australian General Surgical conferences Miss Samantha Mitchell
10.52am 5. Emergency surgical transfers from a rural hospital: An analysis of the case-mix over three years Dr Marc Chia
11.00am 6. An audit of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis practice in a regional Australian hospital Miss Charlotte O’Callaghan
11.08am 7. Sex-specific pregnancy growth standards improve the correlation between small babies and stillbirth: A statewide population study  Dr Natasha Pritchard
11.16am 8. Dermatology presentations to a regional Victorian hospital Dr Claire Ronaldson
11.30am Case Blitz Presentations: Lightning talks delivering key clinical messages (2 mins)
11.33am 1. Cancers of the splenic flexure: Looking for a watershed in the literature, and how we managed a case in a regional centre Dr Amy Crowe
11.35am 2. Appendiceal Intussusception with Appendiceal–Caecal fistula in adult caused by Acute Appendicitis: Case report and literature review Dr Manoj Anandan
11.37am 3. A rare presentation of Fournier’s Gangrene with multifocal necrotising fasciitis: A review Dr Jessica Paynter
11.39am 4. Idiopathic scrotal fat necrosis: A rare cause of scrotal pain Dr Jonathan McCafferty
11.41am 5. A case of pancreatic pseudocyst as a rare cause of a cystic lesion within the psoas muscle Dr Emily Doole
11.43am 6. Internal small bowel hernia via a peritoneal defect from laparoscopic totally extra-peritoneal inguinal hernia repair Dr Maxwell Jambor
11.45am 7. Case report: Intraoperative indocyanine green fluorescence navigation in a robot-assisted partial nephrectomy for a large renal cell carcinoma in a horseshoe kidney Dr Angela Holmes
11.478. A potential role for aspirin in prevention of Preeclampsia, fetal growth restriction and placental abruption: A case studyMiss Ella Ryan
11.49am 9. It takes a village: How a regional town pulled together for an expecting Aboriginal mother with schizophrenia Dr Madeleine Leung
12.00pm LUNCH
DRIVERS SESSION THREE
12.45pm KEYNOTE Leadership: Opportunities or fatal errors for medicos? Professor Tom Callaly
1.15pm PARALLEL STREAM Ninja Scientific Presentations: Community Practice & Medical Education  (3 mins & 1 min Q&A)
1.19pm 1. Anticipatory prescribing in palliative care: a retrospective cohort study using the Care Plan for the Dying Person Dr Laura Panozzo
1.23pm 2. Adult Mental Health Emergencies: A Regional Hospital Emergency Department (ED) Retrospective Audit Ms Emma Smith
1.27pm 3. Health care fears, needs and experiences of Australians who practice BDSM Dr Hannah Sprod
1.31pm 4. The Effectiveness Of Public Education Interventions In Improving Outcomes For ACS Miss Zahara Fainaz
1.35pm 5. To Jab or Not To Jab? Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Rural and Regional Setting Mr Yacoub Jayoghli
1.39pm 6. MEDHAX: A digital resource ‘by students, for students’ to enhance integrated learning in sociocultural health for a rural medical cohort Dr Jessie Zhou
1.43pm 7. The potential for medical students to work in residential aged care facilities in Australia Miss Cathy King
1.47pm 8. Healthcare professionals’ perceptions regarding preparation for climate change impacts on healthcare delivery Ms Mikaela Misso
1.51pm 9. Investigating first-year graduate paramedics’ reasons for current work location: A cross-sectional, data linkage study Ms Nicola Ivec
1.55pm 10. SIPs: Bringing together a regional health service and a rural clinical school Ms Casey Stubbs
1.15pm PARALLEL STREAM Ninja Scientific Presentations: Hospital Medicine  (3 mins & 1 min Q&A)
1.19pm 1. The Growing Role of Peripheral Endovascular Interventions in Australia: Current trends, future directions and patient advocacy Dr Andrew O'Brien
1.23pm 2. Did you check for a Completed Resus Plan (CRP)? Dr Jake Bray-Butler
1.27pm
3. General vs regional anaesthesia for hip surgery: A systematic scoping review
Dr Callum Nguyen
1.31pm 4. Achieving best practice in clinical care: Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis audit Miss Evita Lie
1.35pm 5. Baseline audit of elective lower uterine segment caesarean section (LUSCS) at Bendigo Health: Looking towards enhanced recovery Mr Reilly Eddy
1.39pm 6. The effect of COVID-19 in emergency urological presentations at a single regional centre Dr Jessica Paynter
1.43pm 7. A retrospective audit of perioperative management of anaemia in major orthopaedic procedures Dr Aria Nasteka
1.47pm 8. A quality assessment of adherence to cardiac catheter lab protocols at Bendigo Health Dr Joshua McAdams
1.51pm 9. Complications post thyroidectomy: An audit Dr Matilda Maynard
1.55pm 10. Real-world outcomes of immunotherapy in geriatric oncology patients with metastatic lung cancer: A regional single centre retrospective analysis Dr Ruby Marslen
2.05pm AFTERNOON TEA (15 mins)
DRIVERS SESSION FOUR
2.25pm Reflective Presentations: Innovation and Excellence (6 min & 2 min Q&A)
2.27pm 1. A qualitative evaluation of a junior doctor-led education program for final year medical students Dr Katie Blunt
2.35pm 2. First steps into Rural Generalism Dr Sue Harrison
2.43pm 3. Supratentorial problems? Piloting a Consultation and Liaison psychiatric service in regional Victoria Dr Madeleine Leung
2.51pm 4. How can we address inequalities in rural surgery? A case for expanding regionalised training Dr Amy Crowe
2.59pm 5. The roadmap to rural Psychiatry in action Dr Katherine James
3.07pm 6. Sports & Exercise Medicine and its importance to regional healthcare Dr James Ooi
3.15pm 7. Setting-up a robotic surgery program in a large public regional hospital and the framework of RACS competencies: A perspective Dr Angela Holmes
3.23pm 8. Improving accessibility of medical terminations of pregnancy through telehealth for rural and regional women in Australia Miss Pia Herrera
3.31pm 9. Royal Australasian College of Physicians - Rural Training in Victoria Professor Judy Savige
3.40pm KEYNOTE  There and Back Again: Navigating obstacles in a medical career Dr Annette Holian
4.05pm CLOSE Thanks from Steering and Scientific Committees.