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Multidisciplinary Management of Continence: Basic Principals

Thursday, 30th October 2025

Workshop Overview

Are you a health professional who supports clients with urinary or faecal incontinence and wish you had more confidence in how to help them?
Or are you interested in working within a continence service, or expanding your current role to include continence care, and want to strengthen your foundational knowledge?

This practical, introductory workshop will help you build confidence in continence assessment and management through a multidisciplinary lens.

Who should attend

Ideal for clinicians working in Aged Care, Rehabilitation, Community, or Primary Care settings — including all Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Case Managers, Nurse Practitioners, Specialist General Practitioners and Specialist Physicians.

What to expect at the workshop:

The session will be co-facilitated by a Geriatric Medicine Advanced Trainee, Senior Continence Nurse Consultant, and Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist. Together, we’ll explore:

Pelvic floor anatomy and bladder physiology
Healthy bladder and bowel lifestyle advice
Overactive bladder and stress incontinence management pathways
How to use bladder diaries and bowel charts effectively
When and how to refer for urodynamics

Join us for a collaborative, hands-on learning experience that brings together medical, nursing, and physiotherapy perspectives to support better continence care for your clients.

Facilitated by:

Dr Clara Leung, Continence & Geriatric Medicine Advanced Trainee
Gabby Pragnaratne, Senior Continence Nurse Consultant
Terry Wesselink, Pelvic Health Physiotherapist

Date and Time:

Thursday 30th October 2025, 2pm - 4pm

Venue location:

HERB Level 1, Tutorial Room 1 - Room 1.16

Deakin University School of Medicine, Barwon Health Education & Research Precinct

Registration details:

$40 members/non members
Click here to register https://continence.eventsair.com/pd2025/multidisc-workshop

Pelvic Floor Ultrasound - Basic Workshop for Beginners

Thursday, 30th October 2025

What to expect at the workshop:

> Learn about ultrasound image optimisation.
> The application of bedside imaging with ultrasound in the clinical setting.
> Bladder assessment with ultrasound.
> Pelvic floor assessment with ultrasound.
> Kidneys (limited) assessment with ultrasound.
> Male & female case studies will be discussed.

> Approximately 2 hours of hands-on scanning.

Facilitated by:

Professor Lewis Chan
Head of Urology at Concord Repatriation General Hospital
Clinical Professor of Surgery at University of Sydney

Date and Time:

> Thursday 30th October 2025
> 12:30pm Registration
> 1pm Practical workshops commence
> 5:00pm Practical workshops conclude

Venue location:

> The McKellar Centre – Barwon Health, 45-95 Ballarat Rd, North Geelong

Registration details:

> $550 (Physicians / Doctors / GPs)
> $330 (Nurses / Physiotherapists)
Expression of interests are requested in the first instance. The committee will then review applicants, and once approved, a unique registration link will be sent to the approved applicants to register.
Expression of interests have been extended and approved participants will be advised on how to pay and register upon acceptance.
Click here to expression your interest https://continence.eventsair.com/pd2025/vic-workshop-eoi

Workshop capacity:

> A maximum of 15 participants