Hot Topics 2025: Dementia, GORD and short cases

Join Dr Neal Tucker and Dr Simon Morgan for the next instalment of Hot Topics, where we explore the latest evidence and practical updates on conditions you manage every day in Australian general practice. This session is packed with concise, clinically relevant updates and case discussions to help you translate research into better patient care.

Providing CPD in all three categories, this course includes a 90 minute webinar, FastTrack clinical summary with quiz and a mini-audit. 

Delivered live and available on demand, the interactive case based webinar will cover:

• Dementia – new SIGN guidelines, modifiable risk factors, the role of hearing correction, reducing iatrogenic harm, and the reality check on new monoclonal antibody treatments.
  
  

• GORD in adults and infants – understanding reflux-like symptoms, when PPIs work (and when they don’t), and safer prescribing for infants.
  
  

• Respiratory infections – do gel and saline nasal sprays really work, and how they might help reduce antibiotic use.
  
  

• Depression and exercise – latest BMJ evidence on exercise as a treatment, and how it stacks up against CBT and SSRIs.
  
  

Bonus CPD opportunity

 In addition to the live webinar, you can complete a mini-audit on anticholinergic use in patients with dementia – putting learning into action in your own practice.

Why attend?

• Stay ahead of the curve with evidence-based updates on common clinical problems.

• Gain practical strategies you can use the very next day in clinic.

• Earn CPD hours across multiple categories, including an audit activity.

• Take part in interactive case-based polls during the live session.

What our previous Hot Topics participants had to say:

This is probably the best CME on Medcast as it identifies important papers and evidence that could change medical practice. Invariably, I am not familiar with them. The way the studies are explained helps me understand research methods and interpretation of evidence, and they are always focused on clinical care which is of prime interest. Thanks for keeping this series going.

Engaging presenters and interesting information discussed

Provides excellent, practical, and simple update in management of common presentations in GP.

Some interesting and simple interventions I was not aware of.  I always recommend the hot topics to colleagues- always get so much out of them

Excellent, contempory, evidence-based topics providing challenges and guidance that applies to daily practice

This is a Medcast Continuing Medical Education (CME) course.