Dietary Advice in Diabetes
Tutangi Amataiti
This session describes the dietary approaches for managing people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. It highlights dietary resources and the range of dietetic services that are available both in the community and in diabetes centres. This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and last updated in September 2022.
Child Protection Level 2 Part A - Recognition
Andrea Goddard Consultant Paediatrician
0.50 Hours
This session builds on from Level 1 to help clinical and non-clinical staff who have regular contact with parents, children and young people to recognise signs and behaviours seen in children who are being maltreated. It is important to note that throughout the session, the terms child and children mean anyone younger than 18 ye....
Promoting Attachment and Wellbeing Part 1: Concepts
Catherine Lowenhoff Independent Nurse Consultant, LCB Resources Ltd. Full-time PhD student, Oxford
0.75 Hours
This session is the first of two in this series focusing on attachment and wellbeing. This first session will provide an overview of attachment whilst the second (Positive Parenting and Parenting Issues/Promoting Attachment and Wellbeing Part 2: Practice) will explore the range of attachment-based interventions that help to fost....
Difficult Conversations in Palliative Care
Chantal Simon
0.50 Hours
There are inevitable times when GPs are faced with difficult conversations with patients or their friends or relatives, particularly in palliative care situations. This session aims to provide some strategies to tackle common difficult conversations.
Poor Concentration and Overactivity 2
Eric Taylor
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the origins of problems in concentration and activity control and the treatments available.
Abnormalities of the Dentition
Rachel OBrien
This session looks at abnormalities affecting the dentition including the assessment, diagnosis and management of missing, extra, abnormally formed and ectopically positioned teeth.
Root Surface Caries
Zehra Yonel
This session intends to highlight the principle methods of caries prevention.
Safe Prescription and Risk Management
Ivan Walton
0.50 Hours
This session gives guidance on how to practice medicine safely and responsibly within a complex organisational system.
Safe Anticoagulation
Rosalind Perrott
0.50 Hours
Anticoagulants have been identified as high risk medicines by the National Patient Safety Agency. This session describes patient and drug factors that should be considered to promote the safe use of anticoagulants in practice.
Safe Prescribing in Renal Impairment
Mee Chai
0.50 Hours
This session will provide an overview of the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes which occur in patients with renal impairment. It will also highlight how changes in drug dosing regimes are necessary to prevent adverse events. Finally, the session will also describe the classification of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and....
Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 1)
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. It also highlights factors affecting the route of administration and duration of therapy. Monitoring of antibiotic serum drug levels will be explained.
Protecting Families/Resilience
Sarah Cowley
0.50 Hours
This session aims to explain the concept of resilience in childhood and why it is important. It will also describe the role of families and communities in developing resilience and identify research about practice that supports the development of resilience.
Safeguarding Children - Unexplained Injuries
Giles Armstrong
0.50 Hours
This session will consider the management of an unexplained injury in a child, when there is disagreement between professionals.
Differential Diagnosis Investigation and Treatment of Chest Pain in Pregnancy
Dawn Adamson and Catherine Nelson-Piercy
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the causes of chest pain in pregnant women. It covers how to differentiate and investigate the pain as well as how to treat the causes, concentrating predominantly on thromboembolism, ischaemic heart disease and dissection.
Pathophysiology Presentations and Management of Cocaine-related Chest Pain
David Wood
0.50 Hours
This session describes the pathophysiology, presentations and management of cocaine-related chest pain.
Causes of Palpitations - Atrial Flutter
Malcolm Finlay
0.25 Hours
This session describes the underlying conditions predisposing to the development of atrial flutter and outlines how the cardiac re-entrant arrhythmia can lead to the typical 12 lead ECG, the underlying arrhythmia circuit.
Characteristics of Ventricular Tachycardia Versus Supraventricular Tachycardia
Mehul Dhinoja
0.25 Hours
This session will cover how to identify the diagnostic features of ventricular tachycardia from a 12-lead electrocardiogram reading.
Pericarditis: Investigation and Management
Rohit Raj
0.50 Hours
This session considers causes of acute pericarditis, appropriate investigations to perform and management options.
Anaphylaxis
Imogen Ketchley and Louella Vaughan
This session explores the triggers, pathogenesis, presentation, clinical diagnosis and natural history of anaphylaxis, as well as the use of laboratory confirmatory markers.
Person-centred Care
Arthur Hibble
This session introduces the Person-centred care element from the 'Communication and Consultation' domain of the RCGP curriculum's 'Areas of Capability'. It explores the concepts that underpin person-centred care through a consultation with a patient. This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and updated in November 2022.
Comprehensive Approach
Arthur Hibble
This session introduces the nature of comorbidity, complexity, health belief and keeping healthy.
Attitudes and Behaviour
John Skelton
The aim of this session is to get you to think about communication skills and whether basic skills are sufficient for communicating effectively with patients.
Ethical Tensions in the Consultation
Clare Gerada
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.
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.
Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Insertion - Webinar
Professor Steve Holt
How to insert a peritoneal dialysis catheter and manage for best outcomes