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A repeatable consultation approach
A practical structure for moving from the woman’s story through clinical reasoning, shared understanding, planning and follow-up without turning the consultation into a checklist.
AMI Level 1 · Flagship professional education
The Modern Menopause Consultation™
The consultation women have been waiting for.
A practical, immersive learning experience for GPs and medical practitioners who want clinical knowledge, better conversations and better follow-up to work together in the same consultation.
Built for experienced practitioners.
We’re not starting from the assumption that you don’t know medicine. We’re interested in what changes when that knowledge has to work in the consultation room — with a real woman, limited time, uncertainty, competing priorities and decisions that need to be made together.
Why this course exists
Menopause knowledge matters. So does what happens when you have to use it.
There is already strong menopause education and established clinical guidance. AMI is focused on the implementation layer: how a practitioner brings evidence, clinical reasoning, the woman’s story, shared decisions and follow-up together in a consultation that actually works.
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Better recognition of what matters
Strengthen the way you notice patterns, context, priorities and uncertainty — including the things that can be missed when symptoms, test results and time pressure pull attention in different directions.
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Clinical knowledge connected to real decisions
Physiology, evidence and treatment thinking are taught in the context of what they change in the consultation: what you ask, explain, investigate, decide and review.
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Stronger shared decision-making
Help the woman take a real part in decisions about her care, so she leaves feeling empowered and part of the plan, not just handed a script. Build clearer ways to explain options, uncertainty and trade-offs so the decision is genuinely made together.
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Practical tools you can use in clinic
Questions, explanations, decision frameworks and consultation behaviours designed to be useful in the next real clinic session — not just remembered long enough to pass a quiz.
How AMI teaches
You’re inside the consultation, not watching it from the back row.
The learning is designed to make experienced practitioners think before they are told what to think. You enter a believable clinical situation, decide what you would do, then explore Kelly’s clinical reasoning, the evidence and the woman’s perspective.
Where it adds value, you can return to the same moment, reconsider the approach and try again. The point is not to copy one doctor’s script. It is to sharpen the way you notice, reason, explain and respond.
EnterStart with a believable consultation, not a lecture.
NoticeIdentify what you are hearing, seeing and prioritising.
DecideCommit to what you would ask, say or do before the explanation arrives.
DiscoverSee the clinical model, reasoning and evidence that changes the moment.
Hear herKeep the woman’s perspective present in the learning.
Rewind & applyTry the moment again where useful, then take something practical back to clinic.
What makes the experience different
Four perspectives in the same room.
AMI is designed to bring together the things that are often separated in professional education.
Clinical accuracy
Current evidence and established clinical guidance provide the guardrails for practitioner-facing teaching.
Kelly’s real-world approach
Dr Kelly Needham’s consultation experience contributes the practical reasoning, explanation and implementation layer.
Your existing expertise
The course is built to respect what experienced doctors already know and focus on the extra layer that changes practice.
Lived experience
Women’s experiences increasingly shape how AMI teaches the consultation, without being confused with clinical evidence.
The aim
Not: “Another menopause course done.”
The practitioner should leave thinking: “I noticed something I wasn’t noticing before. That changed how I would handle the consultation. I can use this tomorrow.”
The foundation, not the finish line
Built to sit inside an ongoing professional learning relationship.
The Modern Menopause Consultation™ is AMI’s Level 1 foundation experience within AMI Professional Membership.
The wider direction is deliberately longitudinal: learn the consultation, use it, revisit it, stay current as evidence changes and continue developing over time rather than completing one course and walking away.
Foundation learning: The Modern Menopause Consultation™ as the entry experience.
Ongoing education: continued learning rather than static access to a one-off course.
Evidence and clinical updates: important changes can flow back into the learning as the field evolves.
Resources and application: practical materials designed to support implementation in real consultations.
Future member learning: additional cases, challenges and advanced education as those experiences are released.
Current status
The foundation course is actively being built.
AMI is developing the first practitioner experience now, with final clinical and evidence review required before release. You can register your interest now to receive updates about the course and founding-practitioner enrolment as the release pathway is finalised.
We’ll share CPD, accreditation and course-hour details once they’re confirmed.