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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.
Managing Low Urine Output
Katie Scales
0.50 Hours
This session deals with the presentation and management of the patient with deteriorating urine output.
ECG Interpretation in the Bradycardic Patient
Adil Rajwani
This session will recap the essentials of ECG interpretation, focusing on conduction defects and heart block.
Investigation and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Alison Muir and Perry Elliott
0.50 Hours
This session covers the investigation, assessment and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
Nausea and Vomiting: Investigations and Management
Farhan Shahid and Anwar Ahmad Chahal
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the common causes of nausea and vomiting and the aetiology behind such presentations. Treatment options are discussed in terms of the cause of the symptoms.
History in Collapse
Carla Cadiz Aravena
0.25 Hours
This session covers how to take a history for a patient who presents with collapse.
Common and Serious Respiratory Causes of Cough
Veronica White
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on understanding and recognising the common causes of cough and the underlying risk factors.
Importance of Good History
Veronica White
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on the importance of taking a good history when reviewing a patient with a cough.