Children Learning Two or More Languages
Sean Pert Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
0.50 Hours
This session provides an introduction to the key issues to consider with regard to children learning more than one language. It will provide you with current evidence-based guidance, relevant for practitioners advising parents of bilingual children.
Communicating With Families
Guy Larrington - Family Psychotherapist
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the importance of engaging with parents, carers and families. It will introduce you to what it means to engage families and basic principles in doing so. It introduces you to listening skills and skills in asking questions that help you communicate effectively with families.
Diagnosing and Managing Eye Problems in Children
Stella Hornby Module Editor - Eye Problems
0.50 Hours
This session covers the principles of testing vision in children in primary care. The process of how to check corneal light reflex is described along with the principles and management of strabismus and amblyopia. Leukococoria in young children is considered along with the importance of early recognition and treatment. The sessi....
Promoting Attachment and Wellbeing Part 2: In Practice
Catherine Lowenhoff Independent Nurse Consultant, LCB Resources Ltd. Full-time PhD student, Oxford
0.50 Hours
This session is the second of two in a series focusing on attachment and wellbeing. The first session provided an overview of attachment theory and highlighted the importance of sensitive, responsive caregiving for the optimal development of the child's brain and the development of secure attachment. This second session theref....
Prospective Risk Assessment in Primary Care
Jane Carthey Patient Safety and Human Factors Specialist and Christine Johnson General Practitione
0.50 Hours
This session provides information on how to use prospective risk assessment in primary care. It will also explain why improving patient safety requires us to identify incidents before they occur, rather than simply learning after the event through incident reporting or a significant event audit. This session was reviewed by Such....
Epidemiology of Tooth Surface Loss
June Nunn, Michael O’Sullivan
This session describes the epidemiology of dental erosion, ways of assessing erosion and the limitations of indices currently available.
Assessing and Treating Calcified Canals
Paul McCabe
This session looks at the indications for treatment of calcified canals, the methods of avoiding treatment difficulties in calcified canals and treating these teeth successfully.
Safe Prescribing of Insulin
Rifat Malik and Eileen Turner
0.50 Hours
In clinical practice, you will frequently be required to prescribe insulin. Insulin is a safe and powerful therapy if used appropriately. This session aims to increase confidence in prescribing insulin. It will provide you with the knowledge to avoid common insulin prescribing errors.
Paediatric - Hearing
Bernie Borgstein
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the epidemiology of hearing loss and the impact it has on emotional behaviour. It will also cover the treatment and management of hearing impairment in school.
Causes of Mitral Stenosis
Ceri Davies
0.25 Hours
This session will cover the causes of mitral stenosis. It will also look at the importance of obtaining a full history regarding previous therapies
Risk of In-stent Re-stenosis
Syed Raza
0.25 Hours
This session discusses the types of stents used to reduce re-stenosis and their success rates.
Anticoagulation in Pregnancy
Catherine Nelson-Piercy
0.50 Hours
This session covers the use of anticoagulants in pregnancy, with specific reference to the acute management of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in pregnancy. The safety issues for the mother and fetus of unfractionated heparin (UH), low molecular weight heparins (LMWH) and warfarin are discussed.
Perturbations and Clinical Features Caused by Hypothermia
Claire Dow
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on how to recognise the common clinical features caused by hypothermia and the resulting ECG findings.
Prescribing Long-Term Steroids
Gayathri Rabindra GP Trainee ST2
0.50 Hours
This session emphasises the importance of safe prescribing of steroids and demonstrates how this can be done in practice.
Parental Relationships Part 1: Influences and Effects
Penny Mansfield - Director, One Plus One
0.50 Hours
The session aims to help you understand the effect of the parent-to-parent relationship on children's health and wellbeing and to help you support families where there is relationship distress.
Oxygen Transport and Consumption (anaesthesia)
Fred Roberts FRCA
0.50 Hours
This session explains how much oxygen is used by the body and how it is carried in the blood to supply the tissues.
Adherence and Concordance in Young People
Marcelle Sousa and Terry Segal
0.50 Hours
This session examines factors that influence the way young people take medicines in adolescence. It will also explore some of the challenges encountered by health professionals who care for young people who may have health beliefs conflicting with those of their parents or professionals.
Critical Appraisal - Therapy RCT
Veronica Wilkie
This session looks at answering a question posed by a patient about a therapeutic intervention. The session includes a critical appraisal of a randomised control trial.This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in February 2015.
Qualitative Research
Veronica Wilkie
This session introduces qualitative research and explains some of the more commonly used qualitative methodologies.You will also be asked to critically appraise a paper on qualitative research.
Breathing Problems in Neonates and Infants
Alison Dunn
0.50 Hours
This session uses case studies to describe common breathing problems found in neonates and infants. It covers croup, bronchiolitis and viral induced wheeze. The appropriate primary care and management for these conditions is discussed.
About Alcohol Identification and Brief Advice
Public Health England
0.50 Hours
This session aims to explain the scale of alcohol related harm in the adult population and provide evidence of how Alcohol IBA can reduce the scale of this harm. The aims and key principles of Alcohol IBA are also described.
Adolescent Gynaecology
Sarah M Creighton MD FRCOG Consultant Gynaecologist
0.50 Hours
This session will cover gynaecological symptoms including normal and abnormal menstruation.
Health (Blood Borne Infection) and Handling Stress
Jan Welch, Kevin Holland-Elliott, Obadiah Elekima
This session is about keeping yourself healthy and avoiding common hazards related to working as a doctor. This will enable you to protect yourself and your patients from blood borne virus infection and other health problems.
Mind and Body: The Interface
Elena Garralda
This session will describe how mental health problems in children can affect physical health, how emotional and behavioural problems are sometimes the first presentation of brain disorders, and how mental health disorders can develop as a consequence of poor physical health. It will also look at what help and services are availa....
Differential Diagnosis of Anogenital Warts
Kelly Morris, Lynn Riddell, Chit Saing
This session explores the natural history, diagnosis and management of key differential diagnoses of anogenital warts.