Agenda six hours CPD
- Challenging melanoma diagnoses Dr Christoph Sinz
- Provision of surgical services by GPs and other specialists in skin cancer management A Prof Alex van Akkooi
- The role of the GP in appropriate medical imaging in melanoma Dr Kevin London
- Advances in diagnostic technology Prof Pascale Guitera
- Skin cancer follow up care and the importance of shared care A Prof Robyn Saw
- Understanding the increasing role of immunotherapy in melanoma A Prof Alex Menzies
- Four instructive case study discussions
- Practical melanoma management Dermoscopic evaluation of melanoma Prof Pascale Guitera
- Early detection Essential knowledge for GPs Dr Annika Smith
- Initial assessment and diagnosis of melanoma Dr Bruna Gouveia
- Five Hours Self Claim EA CPD
- One Hour Self Claim RP CPD
- Downloadable CPD Compendium
- Downloadable Verbatim Transcripts
- Watch on your computer or using our phone & tablet apps.
- Download lectures to your phone and tablet
- Enjoy learning while you are out and about
Melanoma Institute Australia
GP Education Day 2024
is available free of charge
to all ArmchairMedical.tv members!
PLUS All members Get 'On Demand' access to
Australia's favourite conferences
Save your travel time, increase your exposure to the latest thinking,
cherry-pick exactly what you need to learn.
Introducing the
ArmchairMedical.tv Conference Learning System
for General Practitioners like you.
You can now:
- Stay home.
- Keep up to date with your favourite conferences.
- Become healthier while you learn.
The ArmchairMedical.tv Conference Learning System consists of three supportive pillars designed to help your learn more and live more...(no matter where you practice)
Pillar 1 Choice.
More choice over the conferences you watch
ArmchairMedical.tv allows you to cherry-pick from the best of the best.
Instead of travelling to just one conference a year, you can now enjoy a smorgasbord of events from the comfort of home.
Quickly and easily choose exactly what you need from over 6,500 lectures featuring some of the world's leading educators.
Binge watch entire conferences or snack on short individual lectures.
Pillar 2 Control.
When, where and how quickly your learn is within your control
The ArmchairMedical Conference Learning System allows you to schedule your conference viewing around what matters to you.
Don't miss weekends or family dinners.
Enjoy the important moments happening in your life.
Download and save entire conferences to your phone and watch them later (even without an internet connection!)
Learn where you want with the "Netflix" style apps.
Easily find what you want and enjoy it wherever you are.
Listen to conferences like Podcasts while you are out and about.
Save your favourite conference on your phone and then watch it later without an internet connection.
Watch conferences in half the time
Are you tired of learning s l o w l y ?
Every conference on ArmchairMedical.tv is fitted with a time saver button, so you can watch lectures in half the time of live events and webinars.
It is more efficient and more fun!
Which leads to Pillar 3...
Can you imagine sitting behind a desk and watching a new conference each week?
Neither can we!!
Which brings us to the KEY of the Armchairmedical.tv Conference Learning System ...
Pillar 3 - The KEY - watch the latest conferences while you are exercising
All memberships now include a free spin bike!
We all need at least 150 minutes a week of exercise to minimise adverse health outcomes.
With your free exercise bike you can take better advantage of your exercise time and easily combine staying healthy with your conference viewing each morning.
When you join
you will receive a free spin bike!
Shortly after joining you will receive our free ArmchairMedical.tv Conference Learning System Exercise bike.
Simply slightly adjust your exercise routine to include some time each week on your new indoor bike and you WILL watch a lecture or two while you are exercising.
You'll get healthier and learn more...
Within a few weeks of exercising and learning like this, it will become a self reinforcing habit!
You'll start to feel amazing.
Your family and friends will notice a difference in you too!
You will start to learn more than you could imagine.
"The effect of studying during exercise is beneficial compared to the combined effect of studying after or without exercise.
Moderately-intense cycling may also create a beneficial environment for encoding of memories.
This result strengthens the implications for students who desire to multitask by reviewing course materials during a workout."
Zabriskie HA, Heath EM. Effectiveness of Studying When Coupled with Exercise-Induced Arousal. Int J Exerc Sci. 2019 Aug 1;12(5):979-988. PMID: 31523352; PMCID: PMC6719811.
Your ArmchairMedical Spin Bike comes with a uniquely designed support frame that will hold your laptop! (or tablet/phone), so you can conveniently watch any of your favourite ArmchairMedical conferences while you exercise.
It's also whisper quiet so it won't disturb your family if you choose to exercise before breakfast or after dinner.
Combined with the 'Time saver' button from Pillar 2, you can now watch an hour of a conference you love, in just 30 minutes before breakfast.
You will watch a full day of your favourite conference lectures EVERY week...all while you are keeping fit and improving your health.
"As a woman, although I live in a relatively safe area, it offers me the ability to safely exercise if I don't get home til after dark or on very early mornings.
It's not an investment I likely would have made/justified to myself otherwise, so I appreciate the creative marketing/bundling."
ArmchairMedical.tv General Practitioner Member,
Rural South Australia
What you will get from us when you join
- 12 months ArmchairMedical.tv 'all access' on computer and mobile devices.
- Hundreds of conferences, thousands of lectures - whenever, wherever you want.
- Every new conference and lecture we add for the life of your membership.
- You will always be up to date.
- Apple and Android Apps.
- You will have more control and flexibility over when and where you learn
- Download entire conferences to your phone and watch them later without an internet connection.
- 'Time Saver' control over all 6,500+ videos.
- Enabling you to be more efficient with your learning.
- CPD journals for all 2023 & 2024 conferences (coming April 2024), plus:
- Your free spin bike, which is:
- Purposely designed to make it easier for you learn more efficiently.
- Delivered free of charge anywhere in Australia or the UK when you first join.
- Designed so you get healthier the more you learn.
- Membership renews yearly
- You will always have access to the latest conferences, no matter where you live and you can cancel at any time.
Your free Spin Exercise Bike will improve your learning!
"Accumulating research demonstrates that acute exercise can enhance long-term episodic memory. "
"When exercising, molecular responses (e.g., upregulation of neurotransmitters)
that aid in memory function are increased, and thus, increase the likelihood of observing improvements in memory. Our results suggest that a 20-min bout of exercise, followed by a rest period of up to 15 min, may be sufficient to enhance long term memory performance."
Loprinzi, P.D., Roig, M., Tomporowski, P.D. et al. Effects of acute exercise on memory: Considerations of exercise intensity, post-exercise recovery period and aerobic endurance. Mem Cogn 51, 1011–1026 (2023).
The results of the study are clear-cut: Learning while performing a concurrent
physical activity yields better performance than learning while being
in a static situation.
"Physical activity is supposed on the one hand to favor synaptic plasticity and on the other hand to increase the availability of specific neurotrophic substances in the brain, such as BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) that facilitate learning."
Liu F, Sulpizio S, Kornpetpanee S, Job R
(2017) It takes biking to learn: Physical activity improves learning a second language. PLoS ONE 2(5): e0177624.
"The effect of studying during exercise is beneficial compared to the combined effect of studying after or without exercise.
Moderately-intense cycling may also create a beneficial environment for encoding of memories."
"This result strengthens the implications for students who desire to multitask by reviewing course materials during a workout."
Zabriskie HA, Heath EM. Effectiveness of Studying When Coupled with Exercise-Induced Arousal. Int J Exerc Sci. 2019 Aug 1;12(5):979-988.
Improve your brain health
"Acute physical activity has been repeatedly shown to improve various cognitive functions."
"We found that light- to moderate-intensity physical activity during encoding improved vocabulary learning in young, healthy women."
Schmidt-Kassow M, Deusser M, Thiel C, Otterbein S, Montag C, Reuter M, Banzer W, Kaiser J. Physical exercise during encoding improves vocabulary learning in young female adults: a neuroendocrinological study. PLoS One. 2013 May 20;8(5):e64172.
"Exercise can make you smarter, happier and have more neurons depending on the dose (intensity) of the training program."
"Adult neurogenesis might be a physical substrate for hormetic responses to exercise on cognition and mood, and that the growth factors (IGF1 and BDNF among the main key factors) mediating actions of exercise on AHN, may be potential candidates to mediate this response curve, together with ROS."
Gradari S, Pallé A, McGreevy KR, Fontán-Lozano Á and Trejo JL (2016)
Can Exercise Make You Smarter, Happier, and Have More Neurons? A Hormetic Perspective. Front. Neurosci. 10:93.
Improve your exercise tolerance
Watching conference lectures while you exercise can help you exercise longer
[Even if you HATE exercising]
"The use of either self-selected music or video distraction during exercise resulted in a similarly more pleasant exercise experience while still allowing for the exercise to be done at an intensity that would support fitness and health benefits. The use of distraction stimuli may assist an individual in overcoming feelings of discomfort and unpleasantness commonly elicited by exercise and frequently offered as reasons for discontinuation of exercise.
The results of this investigation suggest that the addition of music or video distraction during exercise may allow an individual to focus their attention on the distraction rather than on unpleasant or uncomfortable feelings related to their exercise. This may lead to a more pleasant exercise experience and potentially impact future exercise adherence."
Miller PC, Hall EE, Bailey EK. The Influence of Various Distraction Stimuli on Affective Responses during Recumbent Cycle Ergometry. Sports (Basel). 2016 Mar 23;4(2):21.
Healthier than sitting at a desk or in a conference hall
"Compared with inactive individuals, adults accumulating 150 min/week of non-occupational moderate-to-vigorous aerobic physical activity had 31% and 29% lower risk of all-cause and CVD mortality, respectively, whereas the risk difference for total cancer mortality was 15%."
Garcia L, Pearce M, Abbas A, et al Non-occupational physical activity and risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and mortality outcomes: a dose–response meta-analysis of large prospective studies British Journal of Sports Medicine 2023;57:979-989.
"The data reviewed here indicate that physical activity may have a positive effect of brain function throughout the lifespan, providing a non-pharmacological approach to reduce age-related cognitive decline in older adults."
"In fact, higher levels of physical exercise are correlated with decreased risk for intellectual impairment and neurodegenerative disease, highlighting the importance of developing social programs aimed at promoting physical activity across the lifespan, in order to reverse the growing obesity and cardiovascular disease trends as well as the neural degeneration and cognitive decline."
Saraulli D, Costanzi M, Mastrorilli V, Farioli-Vecchioli S. The Long Run: Neuroprotective Effects of Physical Exercise on Adult Neurogenesis from Youth to Old Age. Curr Neuropharmacol. 2017;15(4):519-533.
An unexpected impact on your patients
"Physicians should unequivocally incorporate physical activity into their own daily routine, for their own health benefit, and to become an exercise role model, more confident in prescribing exercise to their patients."
"Physically active physicians and other health care providers are 1.4 to 5.7 times more likely to provide physical activity counselling to their patients."
Green A, Engstrom C, Friis P. Exercise: an essential evidence-based medicine. Med J Aust. 2018 Apr 2;208(6):242-243.
"If CPD systems are explicitly designed to encourage health care providers to engage in healthy lifestyles, it will benefit not only their own wellbeing but also will enhance their patient counselling practices in preventative medicine.
The importance of this cannot be overemphasized as benefits are expected for health care providers, their patients, and health systems."
Babenko O, Ding M, Koppula S. (2019) MedEdPublish 8:21
Will you be someone who thrives with the
Armchairmedical.tv Conference learning system?
Who is most suited to ArmchairMedical.tv?
1. GPs with young families:
- Life can be pretty hectic with a young family.
- You don't want to spend weekends at conferences, dinner time at webinars, or hours and hours locked in your home office.
- Watching your favourite conferences while you exercise at home, allows you to learn while taking care of yourself.
- It is perfect for GPs with young families.
2. Rural GPs:
- Given your distance from 'local specialists', you may need more diverse, in-depth education than many others and it can be more inconvenient to travel.
- Access all your favourite conferences without leaving home.
- Download entire conferences to your phone/tablet and watch them without an internet connection.
- ArmchairMedical.tv is perfect for GPs who have chosen a rural lifestyle.
3. GPs who want to make more use of their exercise time.
- You know the importance of regular exercise and strive to attain your 150+ minutes per week.
- ArmchairMedical.tv is perfect for GPs who want to learn while they keep themselves healthy.
- The ArmchairMedical Go Apps make it effortless to learn while you are on the move (with or without an internet connection)
4. GPs who appreciate efficiency:
- Watch lectures while you exercise. Listen to them while you commute.
- Enjoy conferences in half the time of attending in person.
- ArmchairMedical.tv is perfect for GPs who would prefer to spend less time doing CPD and more time doing something else.
5. GPs who love variety.
- Explore conferences on almost any topic
- Watch only the sessions you are interested in, skip entire lectures or conferences if you are not.
- Cherry pick exactly what you want to learn.
6. GPs who prefer to exercise at home.
- Maybe you have safety concerns, maybe the weather has an impact, maybe it's easier to keep an eye on your kids.
- Sometimes it's simply better to exercise at home.
- ArmchairMedical.tv and your new exercise bike make it easy to stay up to date while you stay stay home.
