Men's health training for GPs

10/04/17 . Partners

The Royal College of GPs and the European Men’s Health Forum will jointly host an educational day on men’s health in London in June.

This one day conference on 16 June, will involve expert speakers, sharing best practice about a range of topics relevant for work with men in primary care.

The sessions will include LUTS, PSA, Men and Cancer, Erectile Dysfunction, Communicating with Men and Male Mental Health including Alcohol-related issues, Workplace-related issues and Sexual Health. Attendees will leave with:

  • Greater insight into a range of key men’s health topics
  • Improved knowledge of how to diagnose and manage several significant men’s health conditions
  • Better understanding of how to communicate effectively with male patients
  • A range of practical ideas about how to improve service delivery to men
  • More information about this event.

'It's everything you need to know about men's health in one fact-packed day,' reported a speaker at a previous RCGP/EMHF event.

Early bird discounts are available until 5 May 2017.

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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