Education & Training
Short Courses
Australian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM)
Training provided online and face to face at the national level or Queensland, ACT, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia and New South Wales.
Subject areas include HIV, HCV, HBV, STIs/BBV, as well as specific nursing and midwifery courses. Offers courses for nurses in the following areas:
- Curing hepatitis C in primary care (online) – nurse practitioners
- HCV in Drug and Alcohol settings (proposed course)
- Corrections webinar: opportunities and solutions for HCV care in custodial settings
- Hepatitis B nursing: addressing the silent epidemic in primary care
- STI and BBV Nursing: an introduction
- STI and BBV Nursing: management and care
- Sexual health in primary care
Albion Street Centre
NSW
Offers courses for nurses in the following areas:
- HIV and Hepatitis testing, informed consent and giving results;
- ABC of ARVs – HIV treatment for healthcare workers
- HIV and ageing
- Management of Exposures to Blood Borne Pathogens
Family Planning
NSW
Offers courses for nurses in the following areas
- Contraceptive implant insertion and removal training
- IUD insertion training
- Reproductive and Sexual Health Clinical Accreditation Program (RSH-CAP) Theory Online
- Reproductive and Sexual Health Professional development for Nurses and Midwives Online
- Masterclass interactive webinar: vulval dermatology, infertility and pre-conception including genetic carrier screening
- Masterclass Webcasts: cervical screening and colposcopy; hormonal IUDs; menopause, Abortion a GPs toolkit
ACON
NSW
Online courses for a range of service providers:
- LGBTQ Introduction
- Asking questions on gender and sexuality
- LGBTQ inclusive practice
- LGBTQ Inclusive Practice in the aged care sector
- eLearning for GPs: suicide prevention for lesion, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people
Sexual Health Quarters
Western Australia
Offers a broad range of courses for doctors, nurses, community workers and educators as well as counselling courses.
- Contraceptive implant insertion and removal training
- IUD insertion training
- Reproductive and Sexual Health training – general or cervical screening
- Unplanned pregnancy
- Clinical update session – contraception
- STIs in WA for Primary Care
- STARS – Start Talking About Relationships and Sex with Aboriginal people
- LGBTI+ diversity workplace training
True Relationships and Reproductive Health
Queensland
True Relationships and Reproductive Health provides course online or based in Brisbane
Courses for nurses in the following areas:
- Cervical screening
- Contraceptive implant insertion and removal training
- IUD insertion training
- Introduction to Reproductive and Sexual Health training – with multiple modules
- Migrant and refugee sexual and reproductive health
- Responding to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting/Circumcision
- Unplanned pregnancy
- Genital dermatology
Central Queensland University
Queensland
CQUniversity is Australia’s largest regional university, a leader in online education and ranked among the world’s top 600 universities. CQU is regarded as one of the nation’s most inclusive and engaged universities and offers short courses related to sexual health.
Sexual Health Victoria
Victoria
Sexual Health Victoria offers courses for nurses in the following areas:
- Cervical screening
- Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (nursing course
- Contraception
- Copper IUD insertion course (for candidates who are already inserting hormonal IUDs)
- Implanon NXT insertion and removal training course for registered nurses & midwives
- Let’s talk about sex: addressing the needs of young people (nursing)
- Unplanned pregnancy
- Vulvovaginal health
The Royal Women’s Hospital
Victoria
Founded in 1856 as a place where disadvantaged women could give birth safely and receive proper medical care, the Royal Women’s Hospital is among the oldest and most distinguished women’s hospitals in the world.
The Women’s annual education and training program includes tailored short courses and seminars on subjects ranging from breastfeeding education to women’s infectious diseases. Check this site regularly for new courses offered throughout the year.
SHINE SA
South Australia
SHINE SA is a key not-for-profit provider of primary care services and education for sexual and relationship wellbeing.
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SHINE SA’s service and education delivery model works to provide sexual health education, early intervention, health promotion, clinical services and therapeutic counselling.
- Cervical Screening Provider course, pregnancy choices course and contraceptive implant training
- Foundations of LGBTIQ Inclusion
- Certificate in Sexual Health
- Plus may more, see link below
Postgraduate Courses in Sexual Health
Master of Science in Medicine (Sexual and Reproductive Health), University of Sydney
NSW
Graduate Certificate of Science In Medicine (Sexual and Reproductive Health), University of Sydney
NSW
Reproductive and Sexual Health Clinical Accreditation Program (RSH-CAP) at Family Planning NSW is affiliated with the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
NSW
Graduate Certificate in Sexual Health, University of Melbourne
Victoria
La Trobe University – Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society
Victoria
Other Postgraduate Qualifications
Graduate Diploma in Forensic Medicine is run through Education Centre Against Violence (ECAV) and enables nurses to become a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE)
NSW
Society of Australian Sexologists
National Branches
Master of Public Health Courses
National
Courses run in universities in all states and territories. MPH contains courses that are highly relevant to the field of sexual health and HIV and there are often electives in these fields.
ASHHNA provides a template for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) based on the AHPRA evidence requirements.