Child as Listener and Speaker Part 1: Non-verbal Apects of Communication
Sally Bates Senior Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, University of St Mark and St Joh
0.50 Hours
This session is the first of two which describe the skills and knowledge that underpin the understanding and production of spoken language and the challenges facing the young child as listener and speaker. This session focuses on the different channels and levels of speech and language processing, the cognitive skills that under....
Child as Listener and Speaker Part 2: Verbal Aspects of Communication
Sally Bates Senior Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, University of St Mark and St Joh
0.50 Hours
This is the second of two sessions which describe the language processing system and the challenges facing all children learning to talk. This session describes the speech mechanism and the linguistic knowledge involved in both understanding and producing spoken language.
Communication Impairments Part 2: Specific Speech Impairments
Sally Bates
0.50 Hours
This is the second of two sessions which describe the language processing system and the challenges facing all children learning to talk. This session describes the speech mechanism and the linguistic knowledge involved in both understanding and producing spoken language.
Communication Impairments Part 4: Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Down Syndrome and AAC
Lynne Bremner Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, NHS Lothian
0.50 Hours
This session is the last of four that looks at different speech, language and communication impairments. The session covers autistic spectrum disorder and Down syndrome. It describes the defining characteristics, prevalence and diagnostic criteria for each condition as well as the referral routes and key supporting agencies. It....
Community-Based Drop-In Services For Young People
Gill Turner Consultant Community Paediatrician, Northumberland and Naomi Jones Paediatric Speciali
0.50 Hours
Introduction to the principles and practical aspects of young people friendly services and the skills health professionals need to work effectively in community-based multi-agency teams.
Connective Tissue Disease
Graham Davenport General Practitioner, Nantwich
0.50 Hours
This session will enable doctors to identify connective tissue diseases (CTDs) that are often seen in primary care, to distinguish between the main CTDs, to investigate, to monitor treatment and to support these patients.
Dental Health Promotion
Elizabeth O'Sullivan Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry
0.50 Hours
This session aims to enhance your knowledge and skills regarding oral health and factors that predispose to poor oral health. Promoting oral health in the infant and young child forms an integral part of this session.
Diagnosis and Management of Gout
Samer Ghazawy GP, Hereford
0.50 Hours
This session covers the diagnosis and management of gout, and how to differentiate gout from other acute arthropathies, including septic arthritis. It also covers treatments for both acute and chronic gout.
Ethics: Background and its Importance
Aidan Macfarlane MA (Oxon), MA (Cantab), MB, BChir, FRCP, FRCPCH, FFPHM
0.50 Hours
This session introduces you to the concept of bioethics and its importance when approaching adolescent health care, particularly in relationship to sexual and reproductive health issues.
Prenatal Diagnosis
Alison MacIsaac General Practitioner
0.25 Hours
This session explores key issues around pre-natal diagnosis in primary care. It discusses testing for Down syndrome, neural tube defects, cystic fibrosis, haemoglobinopathies and infections in pregnancy.
Safeguarding Adolescents
Andrea Goddard Consultant Paediatrician
0.50 Hours
This session aims to help you understand specific issues relating to child protection for adolescents and the wider context of safeguarding.
Pain Management in Palliative Care
Chantal Simon
Pain control is the cornerstone of palliative care. This session aims to provide GPs with a strategy to provide good pain management for patients in palliative care situations. This session was reviewed by Neil Metcalfe and last updated on 19/02/13.
Principles of Palliative Care
Chantal Simon
0.50 Hours
Helping patients to die with dignity and with minimal distress is one of the fundamental aspects of medicine.
Postnatal Depression
Clare Etherington GP Trainer and Tutor
0.50 Hours
This session covers postnatal depression and is presented in the form of a clinical case.
Assessment of Dental Age
Helen Rodd
This session describes the main approaches to dental age assessment for children. It also provides detailed guidance on how to carry out accurate age determination using a well accepted technique (Demirjian’s method of dental ageing).
Dentine Hypersensitivity
Nicola West BDS FDS RCS PhD FDS
This session will outline the prevalence, distribution, differential diagnosis, aetiology and treatment, to enable a management strategy to be drawn up for the dental team to treat patients with dentine hypersensitivity.
BNF Usage and Other Prescribing Information Sources
Sarah Morse
0.50 Hours
This session describes the British National Formulary (BNF) as a primary source of medicines information, highlighting key sections in the BNF and their application, and the formats of drug monographs. It also describes the limitations of the BNF as a source of medicines information and describes other sources of information ava....
Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 2)
Nick Cooley and Greg Scutt and Paul Wade
0.50 Hours
The aim of this session is to promote rational use of antibiotics in optimising treatment of patients with infections and reducing emergence of antibiotic resistance. Risks associated with antimicrobial use in patients who may have penicillin allergy will be explained.
Safer Medicine Use Through Concordance
Wendy Clyne and Patricia Black and Alison Blenkinsopp
0.50 Hours
As many as half of all medicines prescribed are never taken by patients. This session will provide an understanding of the reasons for this and of how, in your prescribing consultations, you can achieve concordance.
Acute Management of Accidental Hypothermia and its Complications
Aram Salehi
0.25 Hours
This session looks at the diagnosis and management of an accidental hypothermic patient presenting either with or without cardio respiratory arrest, and common complications. The initial rescue and recovery is not covered in this session.
Causes, Investigation and Management of Valvular Disease in Pregnancy
Sara Thorne
0.50 Hours
Valvular heart disease may be poorly tolerated in pregnancy; its recognition, assessment and management is detailed in this session.
Different Presentations of Anginal Chest Pains
Akhil Kapur and Sean Gallagher
0.25 Hours
This session describes the different presentations of patients with ischaemic heart disease.
Brugada Syndrome
Kim Rajappan
This session addresses the incidental ECG finding of a Brugada pattern. It includes the identification of ECG abnormalities, the implications of the finding and how to manage the patient.
Causes of Anaemia Associated with Breathlessness
Ranjit Dasgupta
0.25 Hours
This session will look at the classification of anaemia based on red cell indices and the associated factors leading to breathlessness in an anaemic patient.
Prescribing Safely in Pregnancy
Charlotte Frise
0.50 Hours
This session will focus on prescribing in pregnancy, and the important issues to consider when counselling a pregnant or potentially pregnant woman about this. These include risk/benefit analysis for medications for the treatment of chronic medical conditions, as well as errors of omission for acute medical problems encountered....