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The Clinic provides a range of specialist education services for GPs and other health professionals.

Special Interest Network (SPIN)
SPIN meets monthly and provides a valuable interface among a broad mix of health professionals from the drug and alcohol field. Topics and speakers reflect the interests and needs of the group. SPIN members include GPs, pharmacists, nurses, counsellors, psychologists and social workers.

SPIN Journal Club
SPIN Journal Club meets every second month and provides the opportunity for discussion of new developments and research in the drug and alcohol field.

Mentoring Program for GPs
Mentoring is available to GPs wishing to increase their confidence and competence in managing drug and alcohol patients and/or wishing to undertake training in methadone and other alternative pharmacotherapies.

Program for Medical Students
Final year students from Monash University undertaking their psychiatry rotation at the Alfred Hospital and Monash Medical Centre participate in a drug and alcohol training program at the clinic.

Pharmacotherapy Training Program for Opioid Dependence
Southcity Clinic and JUCET (the joint centre for education and training in general practice) currently hold the statewide contract for the pharmacotherapy training program for opioid dependence incorporating the methadone/buprenorphine prescribers workshop.