High-Risk Juvenile Offenders and Crime Deterrence
Thomas Loughran, Ph.D., et al.; U.S. Department of Justice
1.00 Hours
There is a link between perceptions of the threat of sanctions and deterrence from crime among serious adolescent offenders. This CEU course discusses the factors that lead youth who have committed serious offenses to persist in or desist from offending.
Gambling Problems - An Introduction for Behavioral Health Providers
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This course provides a brief introduction to pathological gambling, gambling disorder, and problem gambling. Resources for additional information are also provided. *This course is not approved for NBCC renewal.
Basic Principles of Health Promotion
Francesca Cleugh
0.50 Hours
This session provides foundational principles for promoting health and explores health promotion models and approaches that aim to enhance health. The challenges of behaviour change and the healthcare provider's role forms an integral part of this session.
Making the Occupational Link
Debbie Cohen Co-lead of the new National Programme for Work and Health for the Royal College of Gen
0.50 Hours
This session explores how work can sometimes cause or aggravate a health condition, and how early diagnoses can be made to support the management plan.
Level 2 Part C – Record in Primary Care
Andrea Goddard
0.50 Hours
This session will help clinical and non-clinical staff in primary care who have regular contact with parents, children and young people to know how to record and communicate concerns that a child is at risk of abuse.
Explaining, Motivating And Empowering
Dick Churchill and Deborah Christie
0.50 Hours
This session discusses the implications of empowering young people to take decisions about their own health care and how this may have an impact on how well professional health care advice is followed. The learner will be introduced to what aspects of treatment influence and motivate adherence to prescribed treatment regimens an....
Gathering Information and Exploring Sensitive Issues
Dick Churchill and Deborah Christie
0.50 Hours
Young people sometimes have health problems that they perceive as embarrassing or sensitive. This session describes some steps that health professionals can take to encourage young people to share information about such problems.
Minimising Intradialytic Hypotension: The Evidence - Webinar
Wendi Bradshaw
How to reduce intradialytic hypotension during haemodialysis - best practice
Marijuana Update
Industry Specialists
2.00 Hours
Changes in marijuana policies across states legalizing marijuana for medical and/or recreational use suggest that marijuana is gaining greater acceptance in our society. This CEU course covers what is particularly important for people to understand about both the adverse health effects and the potential therapeutic benefits lin....
Endocrine Challenges for the Dental Practitioner
StJohn Crean, Rishi Bhandari
This session will look at the relevance of common endocrine disorders to the delivery of dental care by the dental practitioner.
Medical Emergencies: Basic Life Support
StJohn Crean
This session will look at the relevance of medical emergencies to the dental practitioner and describe the management of a seriously ill patient.
Infection and Surgical Management
Francine Mariko Ryba
This session will cover the principles of surgical management of infections with particular application to the infections that a dental practitioner is likely to encounter in practice.
Management of Orofacial Malignancies
Atheer Ujam
This session describes how to recognise important diagnostic features of malignant and premalignant oral lesions allowing early and appropriate referral to specialist care.
Introduction to Evidence Based Practice
Kevork Hopayian
This session considers the value that evidence-based practice brings to GPs and their patients. You will learn some of the basic skills needed. This session was reviewed by Sally Higginbottom and last updated in March 2015.
Identifying Overweight and Obesity and Risk Factors for Weight Gain
Jamie Blackshaw
0.50 Hours
This session looks at how to measure excess weight in children and adults, and discusses the causes of obesity including those that may present outside of lifestyle-related obesity. This session was reviewed by Jamie Blackshaw (Project Lead), Penny Blair, Lisa Thompson and Elaine Boylan and updated in January 2017.
Managing Obesity: Treatment Options
Jamie Blackshaw
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the type of support and services that can be offered for both children and adults to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Guiding and Enabling Behaviour Change
Jamie Blackshaw
0.50 Hours
This session aims to equip you with the knowledge and understanding of how to take a guiding and collaborative approach with patients to help support lifestyle behaviour change. It illustrates a five-step approach that will enable you to achieve this, and highlights where you may need to refer to other support services.
Introduction to Common Symptoms and Help-Seeking
Dick Churchill
0.50 Hours
In this session we will consider the types of symptoms that young people experience, and the choices that they make about where to go for help. Other sessions in the module consider some of the symptoms and conditions in more detail.
Meningitis in Children
Alison MacIsaac
0.50 Hours
This session describes the prevalence and impact of meningitis. You will learn to recognise the symptoms and how to conduct immediate management of a child with suspected meningococcal disease including administering intra-muscular penicillin.
Memory Problems in Older People
Emma Vardy and Louise Robinson
0.50 Hours
This session describes an approach to the forgetful patient in primary care and provides an overview of the epidemiology and diagnosis of dementia.
Managing Common Vaginal Bleeding Problems
Sarah Gray
0.50 Hours
This session will help GPs to offer first-line management for common complaints regarding vaginal bleeding, including heavy bleeding, painful bleeding, bleeding between periods, and absent or irregular bleeding.
Health Inequalities
Joe Kai
This session considers how social differences between doctor and patient have the potential to contribute to inequalities in health. The example of "social class" is used, but similar principles can be applied to any encounter where there are cultural differences.
Examination of a Middle Aged Female Patient with Hand Symptoms
Rashid Hussain
0.50 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to carry out a focused, problem-based physical examination on a patient presenting with hand pain in primary care.
Health (Blood Borne Infection) and Handling Stress
Jan Welch and Kevin Holland-Elliott and Obadiah Elekima
0.50 Hours
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.