Paediatric Metabolic Medicine Made Practical
The Royal Children’s Hospital Education Hub and the Metabolic Medicine Team are excited to bring you an education day to build confidence in recognising inherited metabolic disorders and understanding key principles in their management. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding, practical tools, and increased confidence to support children where a metabolic diagnosis may be present or emerging.
Date: Thursday, 22nd August 2026, 8.30am to 4.00pm
Where: Ella Latham Auditorium,The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, 50 Flemington Rd Parkville, VIC 3052 & via Zoom
Intended audience: This course is ideal for health professionals who are early in their exposure to metabolic medicine or may encounter metabolic conditions in clinical practice, including paediatricians, trainees, emergency medicine clinicians, nurses and dietitians.
Course outline:
- When to consider a metabolic diagnosis
- The newborn screening program
- Choosing appropriate investigations
- Recognising and managing metabolic emergencies
- Understanding how specialist metabolic teams support care
- The lived experience of families
Onsite: Ella Latham Auditorium, Ground Floor, The Royal Children's Hospital
Virtual: via Zoom
All enrolments include access to a recording of the event. The recording will be available for 90 days.
CPD Points: 6 hours. A certificate will be made available on completion.
Mode of delivery: Onsite & Virtual
Registration:
Staff of The Royal Children's Hospital via Learning Hero
Other clinicians via the Education Hub LMS