Adult Primary Care 2023 Full Course
This online course was developed to support the provision of health-related services and is reasonably believed to represent appropriate healthcare practices at the date of first publication, 27 October 2023.
This course has been created for health care workers who have NOT already been exposed to APC training.
Before we get started, let's make sure this is the right course for you.
Have you realised you need to enrol in the APC 2023 Update Course instead?
Please note: It is important to have an up-to-date APC certificate going forward. When APC is updated again, you will need to do the Update course thereafter.
This course is designed to orient healthcare workers to the Adult Primary Care clinical decision support tool, which is based on South African Public Health Care guidelines and policies. It provides a comprehensive approach to integrated care.
This course contains 27 cases and 3 activities. This course is designed to be done over a number of sittings, so we suggest that you set aside about 2 hours at a time and work through the cases and activities over the course of a few weeks.
- Features of APC activity
- Case 1: Faizel - Part A (seizure, urgent attention)
- Case 2: Patricia (headache, symptom-based approach, using an algorithm)
- Case 3: Anna (sore throat, using an algorithm)
- Case 4: Godfrey (weight loss, comprehensive screening for causes of an ailment)
- Case 5: Sophie - Part A (STI, introduction to the Assess, Advise and Treat approach)
- Case 6: Herman (STI, HIV PrEP, navigating multiple pages in APC)
- Case 7: Stanley (body pain, HIV diagnosis and routine care, symptom page prompting identification of a chronic condition)
- Case 8: Nondumiso (HIV routine care)
- Health systems strengthening activity
- Case 9: Andreas (managing a patient with an unsuppressed HIV viral load)
- Case 10: Rethabile (switching ART to DTG-based regimen)
- TB diagnosis activity (6 scenarios featuring TB diagnosis)
- Case 11: Bongani (DS-TB routine care)
- Case 12: Sr Bertina (DS-TB routine care, managing a patient with a week 7 positive smear)
- Case 13: Nobantu (diarrhoea, weight loss, TB diagnosis, integrating the management of HIV and TB)
- Case 14: Sophie - Part B (starting contraception)
- Case 15: Melissa (antenatal care, HIV diagnosis and routine care, postnatal care, VTP)
- Case 16: Sandile (aggression, abnormal thoughts or behaviour, involuntary admission)
- Case 17: Jane (tiredness, depression diagnosis and routine care)
- Case 18: Adelaide (abdominal pain, alcohol use)
- Case 19: Sindi (postnatal depression, integrating maternal and mental health)
- Case 20: Thobeka (back pain, CVD risk and hypertension diagnosis and routine care)
- Case 21: Boeta (gout, alcohol use, CVD risk)
- Case 22: Xolani (urgent management of a new stroke, stroke routine care, palliative care)
- Case 23: Sipho (chest pain, ischaemic heart disease routine care, tobacco smoking)
- Case 24: Caroline (integrating diabetes and hypertension routine care, stepping up treatment over multiple visits)
- Case 25: Mrs Dube (distinguishing asthma and COPD, % predicted PEFR, CVD risk)
- Case 26: Aunty Gertie (urgent management of tight chest, asthma routine care, % predicted PEFR)
- Case 27: Faizel - Part B (epilepsy routine care, DS-TB routine care, medication interactions)
- Update activity (new pages and changes in APC 2023)
You will get the certificate on completion of the course.
until
31 December 2024 - 12:00 am