Image Interpretation - Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: Neonatal and Paediatric Hip
Rebecca Baker, Ellen Dyer and Lol Berman
0.50 Hours
This session will cover the technique, anatomy and abnormalities detected by ultrasound scanning for developmental dysplasia and effusion of the neonatal and paediatric hip. Tips on avoiding pitfalls and on report writing will be offered.
Image Interpretation - Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: Abdominal Wall and Groin
Karen Partington and Philip Robinson
0.50 Hours
This session will review the sonography of common pathology of the abdominal wall and groin with emphasis on relevant anatomy, hernia classification and pitfalls in interpretation. Reporting tips will be offered.
Image Interpretation - Head and Neck Ultrasound: Thyroid and Parathyroid
Neil Cozens and Andrew Longmead
0.50 Hours
This session considers the sonographic appearance of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. It will include an overview of normal appearances, benign and malignant nodules, and other pathology. Tips on avoiding pitfalls and reporting will be offered.
Fractures of Metacarpals and Phalanges
Sridhar Kamath
0.75 Hours
This session provides classification of metacarpal and phalangeal fractures, mechanisms of injury, and potential complications. It emphasises the information required from the radiologist in the management of these fractures.
Hip Pain Following Total Hip Arthroplasty
Muhammad Ismail
0.50 Hours
This session is designed to teach the common causes of pain following total hip replacement (THR) and allows you to formulate a management plan specific to the suspected diagnosis.
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Henk Jongschaap and Sumeet Miranda
0.25 Hours
This session will provide a clinical overview, differential diagnosis and some examples of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).
Infections of the Kidneys
Adrian Lim
This session is about the various types of urinary tract infections (UTIs), common causes and presentations of renal infections related to their imaging findings. It also discusses evaluation and management based on the severity of the infection.
Imaging of Suspected Hydronephrosis and Ureteric Obstruction
Sarah Natas and Giles Rottenberg
0.75 Hours
This session covers dilatation of the upper renal tract including definition, causes, methods of investigation and treatment.
Imaging of the Indeterminate Renal Mass
Uday Patel
Masses in the kidney are one of the most commonly found abnormalities on routine cross-sectional imaging. The nature of the vast majority is obvious on initial findings but a small minority are of indeterminate appearance. This session describes how an indeterminate renal mass can be evaluated by radiological imaging.
Imaging after Bladder Reconstruction or Diversion
David Rickards
0.50 Hours
In some cases, the bladder function is so poor that the only way urine expulsion can be maintained is to reconstruct the bladder, either by total diversion or surgical augmentation. In either case, the radiological anatomy will be much altered and this session describes the various types of reconstructions that may be encountere....
Introduction to Evidence Based Practice
Kevork Hopayian
0.50 Hours
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.
Clinical Governance
Thomas Lewis
0.25 Hours
This session outlines the principles of clinical governance, including how clinical governance works for individual clinicians, and how clinical governance is applied to whole organisations to assure and improve quality. This session supports the development of leadership in clinical settings.
Introduction to the Healthy Child Programme
Mitch Blair
0.50 Hours
This session traces the history of the development of the current healthy child programme (pregnancy to five years old) and outlines its main aims and programme components: screening, immunisation, health promotion and behaviour change and parenting support. The session also describes the philosophical change in approach from....
Full-field Electroretinography Part 1
Anthony G. Robson and Antonio Calcagni
0.50 Hours
This session describes the full field electroretinography (ff-ERG) procedure and principles and a normal set of ff-ERG results. It describes the physiological significance of the main ERG components and outlines how responses are measured and interpreted.
Making Decisions 1
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
0.50 Hours
This session is the first of a two part module about decision making in a medical environment using evidence based medicine. It looks specifically at cost effectiveness, using the scenario of treating a patient with dementia as an example.
Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Stephen Gandy
0.50 Hours
This session provides an introduction to the main clinical methods used for magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) including time-of-flight MRA (TOF-MRA), phase contrast MRA (PC-MRA) and contrast-enhanced MRA (CE-MRA).
Magnetism & Current - Anesthesiology
Patrick Magee
0.50 Hours
This session provides an introduction to the concepts of magnetism and its relationship to electrical current and voltage.
Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD) - Anesthesiology
Ola Shalaby and Ahmed Rashad Aziz
0.50 Hours
This session is designed to help with the assessment and management of patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD), presenting for surgery.
Multiple Sclerosis and Myotonias - Anesthesiology
Jason Easby
0.50 Hours
In this session you will cover the definition and aetiology of multiple sclerosis, including the implications of anaesthetizing patients with this disease, and the aetiology and anaesthetic implications of myotonias, in particular myotonic dystrophy.
Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Wrist - Session 2
Claire Giles
0.50 Hours
This session will describe common fractures, dislocations, pathologies and normal variants found in the wrist joint. These will be illustrated using radiographic examples.
Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Facial Bones - Session 2
Anne Lancaster
0.50 Hours
This session will describe common fractures, dislocations, pathologies and normal variants found in the facial bones. These will be illustrated using radiographic examples.
Image Interpretation - Plain X-rays of the Adult Chest: Nodules
Matthew Scott
0.50 Hours
This session will look at pulmonary nodules. It will focus on practical aspects of identification of these nodules on chest radiographs, and consider the possible causes for the appearances. Diagrams and radiographic examples will be used to demonstrate some of the important features.
Image Interpretation of the Paediatric Skeleton: Pelvis and Hip - Session 2
Joanne Hargreaves
0.50 Hours
A self-assessment exercise based on Image Interpretation of the Paediatric Skeleton: Pelvis and Hip - Session 1.
Image Interpretation - Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Introduction (Musculoskeletal)
Dorothy Keane
0.50 Hours
This session will give an overview of the Image Interpretation musculoskeletal (MSK) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sessions.
Image Interpretation - Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Knee - Session 1
Graeme Strong
0.50 Hours
This session will look at the anatomy of the knee which will be illustrated using diagrams, magnetic resonance images and some arthroscopic images. Mechanisms of injury will be discussed along with technique for magnetic resonance imaging of the knee.