Alan Roberts International Medical Graduates Support and Advisory Services

📢 Important Upcoming Dates – Don’t Miss Out!

Stay updated with the latest ARIMGSAS course start dates, workshops, and AMC trial exam schedules for next week. Plan your preparation ahead and secure your spot early to stay on track with your AMC journey.

🚀 AMC Clinical Success Starts Here!
Join ARIMGSAS 8 & 10 Week AMC Clinical Preparation Course and build the confidence to excel in your exam.
✅ Real exam-style clinical practice
✅ Physical exam & communication workshops
✅ Expert feedback from experienced doctors
✅ Clinical trial exams with detailed guidance
✅ Structured, high-yield preparation
🎯 Practice. Perform. Pass.
ARIMGSAS – Your pathway to AMC Clinical success.
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ONLINE THIS WEEK - AUSTIN HEALTH GRAND ROUND: “PSYCHOTROPIC PRACTICE ON THE WARD: AIMING FOR BETTER” 19TH AUGUST 2026, ONLINE VIA MICROSOFT TEAMS VIDEOCONFERENCE

ONLINE THIS WEEK VIA MICROSOFT TEAMS
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Psychotropic medicines can be valuable and sometimes essential, but their use in general hospitals often begins in moments of clinical uncertainty, including agitation, delirium, distress, insomnia, nausea or behavioural change. If the underlying problem, intended treatment target and duration are not clearly defined, a short-term prescription can readily persist beyond the acute episode. Sedation, falls, aspiration, anticholinergic effects, movement disorders and drug interactions are particular concerns in older people and those with cognitive impairment. Recent Austin audit data suggest that close to half of patients receiving an antipsychotic during the audited period were new starts. This does not imply that those prescriptions were inappropriate. Rather, it highlights hospitalisation as an important point at which psychotropic exposure is created, changed and potentially perpetuated.

Concerns identified by the Aged Care and Disability Royal Commissions reframed psychotropic overuse and chemical restraint as matters of patient safety, consent and human rights, informing the 2024 Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard. Using clinical cases and local prescribing data, this Grand Round will examine what good psychotropic stewardship looks like on the medical ward. It will consider assessment of the causes of behavioural change, non-medication strategies, clear indications and treatment targets, individualised assessment of benefits and risks, and plans for review, cessation and communication across transitions of care. The session will also present Austin’s Psychotropic Management Plan, deprescribing initiatives and emerging dashboard-based approach to monitoring practice.

This Wednesday, we have a very important Grand Round by the Clinical Pharmacology Department on

"Psychotropic Practice on the Ward: Aiming for Better"
Dr Ee Lynn Ting (Clinical Pharmacology Registrar)
Elizabeth Su (Senior Project Officer, Medicines Optimisation Service and Senior Pharmacist)
Dr Sabrina Kohler (Geriatrician)
Dr David Liew (Clinical Pharmacologist and Rheumatologist, and Project Lead, Medicines Optimisation Service)

Formal trial exam

📢 Important Upcoming Dates – Don’t Miss Out!
Stay updated with the latest ARIMGSAS course start dates, workshops, and AMC trial exam schedules for next week. Plan your preparation ahead and secure your spot early to stay on track with your AMC journey.

🩺 12-DAY AMC CLINICAL PREPARATION COURSE 🇦🇺

Ready to take your AMC Clinical preparation to the next level?

Join ARIMGSAS for an intensive 12-day program designed to help International Medical Graduates build confidence, strengthen clinical skills and prepare effectively for the AMC Clinical Examination.

✨ What you’ll experience:
🔹 Intensive clinical examination practice
🔹 Communication & consultation skills
🔹 Structured clinical scenarios
🔹 Hands-on practice sessions
🔹 Expert guidance and feedback
🔹 Focused preparation for the AMC Clinical Examination

🎯 12 Days. Focused Preparation. Greater Confidence.

Don’t just prepare for the exam — prepare to perform with confidence.

📩 Contact ARIMGSAS for course details and enrolment.

🌐 Visit: www.arimgsas.com.au