• Key listening and validation techniques used to foster patient engagement and shared decision-making
• Understand and apply trauma-informed history-taking principles
• Key elements in taking a comprehensive menopause history
• Determine when to order investigations
• Determine when to refer to specialists

• Managing early menopause

• Physiology of Vasomotor Symptoms (VMS)
• Lifestyle and behavioural strategies for managing VMS
• Non-hormonal treatment options
• Apply a patient-centred, evidence-based approach
• Recognise when further investigation or referral is needed

• The role of key hormones in perimenopause & menopause
• Benefits, risks and formulations of Hormone Therapy (HRT/MHT)
• Evidence-based hormonal treatment strategies for Vasomotor Symptoms (VMS)
• Contraindications and alternative approaches to MHT
• Current evidence and guidelines to clinical practice

• Identify genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM)
• Understand ways GSM impacts on sexual health
• Differentiate between local vs. systemic hormonal treatments and their indications
• Understand the role of pelvic floor physiotherapy in GSM management
• Take a comprehensive sexual health history, using trauma-informed and inclusive language
• Intimacy, pleasure and psychological aspects of GSM
  

• Assess the need for contraception in perimenopausal women
• Normal and abnormal bleeding patterns in perimenopause
• Hormonal and non-hormonal contraceptive options for perimenopausal women
• Provide guidance on (options for) transitioning off contraception
• Current evidence-based guidelines in clinical practice

• Hormonal vs. primary psychiatric causes
• Apply knowledge of treatment options
• Cognitive symptoms and brain fog
• Lifestyle interventions
• Effective communication
• Develop patient-centred care plans

• Identify the hormonal, metabolic, and lifestyle factors contributing to weight gain during menopause
• Identify three common myths around weight loss strategies during menopause
• Recommend an exercise program that helps preserve muscle mass and promote overall metabolic health during menopause

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