Anatomy of the Shoulder (Adult) - Radiology
Joanne Hargreaves
0.5 Hours
This session will look at the anatomy of the shoulder.
Anatomy of the Thoracic Spine (Adult) - Radiology
Lisa Field
0.5 Hours
This session will look at the anatomy of the thoracic spine.
Cultural Competence and Maternity Services
Katie De Freitas
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the importance of cultural competence in the context of maternity care and aims to help health professionals support and meet the needs of a changing population.
A Unified DNACPR Policy
Tracey Courtnell
0.75 Hours
This session provides an introduction to Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) policies and highlights when an individual should not be subjected to attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This session was reviewed by Paul Clark and Christina Faull and last updated in June 2015.
Anatomy of the Carpal Bones (Adult) - Radiology
Claire Giles
0.5 Hours
This session will look at the anatomy of the carpal bones.
Ano-rectal STIs
John White
0.5 Hours
This session covers the specialist investigation and management of ano-rectal and enteric sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), including the selection of an appropriate range of tests. Appropriate surgical and medical referral criteria will also be covered.
Difficult Consultations
Connie Wiskin
0.50 Hours
This interactive session explores some of the difficulties associated with patients whose behaviour doctors find challenging and who may provoke strong feelings in doctors. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in July 2014.
Essential Techniques in Practice
Roger Neighbour
0.5 Hours
This session is the second of two sessions that will give you a grounding in the four categories of consulting skills you are likely to need in virtually every consultation. This session will cover establishing rapport, eliciting, responding to cues and building concordance. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last upd....
Ethical Tensions in the Consultation
Clare Gerada
0.5 Hours
There is always the possibility of conflict between a doctor’s view and that of the patient. This session explores some of the common ethical issues that confront doctors in their day to day practice. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in June 2014.
Parental Relationships Part 2: Practical Methods of Assessment and Support
Jan Mitcheson
0.25 Hours
This session is designed to help you recognise and respond appropriately to relationship stress between parents. It provides you with some simple tools that will help you to explore with parents their understanding of what is happening in their relationship, and to look at what they might be able to do to strengthen their relati....
Paediatric ERGs and VEPs
Dorothy Thompson
0.5 Hours
This session covers how visual electrophysiology can be applied in young children and how combining ERG/VEP findings contributes to diagnosis and monitoring in paediatric ophthalmology clinics.
Ocular Masses and Tumours
Hatem Riad Atta FRCSEd, FRCOphth, DO
0.5 Hours
This session covers the detection and diagnosis of common ocular mass lesions.
Proptosis and Orbital Masses
Roxanna Gunny
1 Hours
This session describes common causes and most common malignant causes of proptosis in children, their typical clinical presentations and imaging features and which imaging features on computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help to distinguish them.
Communication Skills
Jude Chukwuma
0.5 Hours
This session covers the basic principles of good communication and examines some of the common communication errors that may arise during a doctor´s interaction with both patients and colleagues.
Safer Medicine Use Through Concordance
Wendy Clyne and Patricia Black and Alison Blenkinsopp
0.5 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.
Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 3)
Nick Cooley and Greg Scutt and Paul Wade
0.5 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. The risks of developing Clostridium difficile will be explained.
BNF Usage and Other Prescribing Information Sources
Sarah Morse
0.5 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
0.5 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.
Prevention Strategies
Wendi Murphy
0.5 Hours
Since some high-profile cases, agencies that deal with young people have an increased responsibility to work with each other to prevent substance misuse. This session outlines some of those responsibilities and suggests ways to identify young people at risk of substance misuse and put in place prevention strategies.
Adolescent Presenting with Intoxication
Katherine Teasdale
0.5 Hours
This session follows the case of a teenager presenting to hospital intoxicated. It develops with allegations of sexual assault. Concerns regarding risk of sexual exploitation emerge. Identification and management of the safeguarding issues are explored.
Physical Health Care for People With Severe Mental Illness
Jay Bowden
0.5 Hours
Patients with severe mental illness (SMI) have significantly worse health outcomes than in the general population, with life expectancy reduced by up to 20 years in this group. Cardiovascular and metabolic causes have been identified as being the key contributors to this excess mortality and morbidity. This session will explore....
Paediatric - wetting
June Rogers
0.5 Hours
This session will help practitioners become aware of bladder problems in children and young people, and to understand the implications continence problems can have on both the child and family as well as the wider community.
Safeguarding Children - Introduction to Special Educational Needs
Gabriel Whitlingum
0.5 Hours
This session gives an overview of the different types of special educational needs and barriers to learning.
Safeguarding Children - Moving Up
Jane Wright
0.5 Hours
This session is aimed at a universal audience and will explore the transition from primary school to secondary school. It will discuss the factors that may impact on this transition and the role of services to support children with particular physical, developmental, emotional or social needs.
Paediatric - Headaches
Ishaq Abu-Arafeh
0.5 Hours
Headache is an important and common health problem for children that may lead to school absence and educational underachievement. This session will introduce the common causes of headache, their presentation and the treatment options. This session will also help in better understanding of the impact of headache on child's social....