0904 Respiratory System and Respiratory System: Occupational Asthma (Stream 1) - 04 September 2025

IMPORTANT NOTE: This Stream 1 module requires you to also complete Core (Stream 1) to become an approved assessor. 

Delivery: Webinar

This is a Stream 1 module and it’s designed for doctors that have never successfully completed the Stream 1 module and do not hold the accreditation. Accreditation requires you to attend the session as well as successfully completing the module assessment.

Successful completion of the module will lead to awarding of the following accreditation:

Respiratory System and Respiratory System: Occupational Asthma

If you have already successfully completed this module and you want to undertake continuing education, please go back to the homepage and enrol in Respiratory system update (Stream 2) and Respiratory system: Occupational Asthma update (Stream 2).

*Course cost includes GST.

*Participants need to bring their AMA4 Guide when they attend training.

Module information

This module covers assessment of respiratory abnormities using Chapter 5 of the Guides.

It also covers the assessment of Occupational Asthma using an additional set of Guidelines which have been adopted for use in the WorkSafe and Wrongs Act jurisdictions, but not the TAC jurisdiction.

The module includes:

• The types of injuries often associated with the three compensation jurisdictions that use the Guides.
• The Standards to which spirometry is to be conducted for the purposes of assessment using the Guides.
• The approach to derive a score of whole person impairment using Chapter 5.
• The approach to be taken when assessing occupational asthma.
• The approach to be taken to apportion an impairment score to account for extra pulmonary factors or pre-existing respiratory impairment.