Introduction to Dementia
Chris Wolf
2 Hours
Every 68 seconds another American develops Alzheimer's disease. Education and training in dementia care for health care staff has been identified as a priority by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease (NPAAD) developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi....
Neonatal Developmental Care
Dr. Juli Reynolds PhD
Neo Consult This CME-accredited programme is evidence-based and will provide you with knowledge of developmentally supportive care practices. The course will develop your ability to provide personalised family-oriented developmental care to premature and full-term newborns.
Gynecologic Problems for HIV Infected Women
Jean Anderson, M.D.
3 Hours
Gynecologic problems are common among HIV infected women and are frequently present at the time of initial presentation for evaluation and care. This CEU course provides detailed information pertaining to problem-oriented approaches to common gynecological complaints; abnormal pap smear; genital ulcers; vaginal discharge; pelvi....
Evidence-Based Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders
Joan Armstrong.
10 Hours
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have lifelong effects on individual functioning in areas such as learning, relationships, and independence in daily life. This CE course provides information and tools to support healthcare professionals in making informed decisions about selection, implementation, and monitoring of ASD interven....
Improving Hand Hygiene
Industry Specialists
2 Hours
This course was developed from the Institute For Healthcare Improvement guide which help organizations reduce health-care-associated infections, including infections due to antibiotic-resistant organisms, by improving hand hygiene practices and use of gloves among health care workers.
Impact of Anxiety on Cognition
Oliver Robinson
3 Hours
Anxiety disorders constitute a sizable worldwide health burden with profound social and economic consequences. This advanced CE course examines the interaction between anxiety and cognition focusing on the translational threat of unpredictable shock paradigm.
Eating Hints Cancer Support
Industry Specialists
2 Hours
This course was developed from the National Cancer Institute booklet which is a resource for the person who is about to get, or is now getting, cancer treatment, in addition to their family, friends, and others close to them. The booklet covers: what should be known about cancer treatment, eating well, and eating problems; how....
Management of Acute Back Pain
Olwen Westerland and Dr David Howlett
0.50 Hours
This session presents a methodical approach to the evaluation and management of patients presenting with acute back pain; it includes supportive diagnostic imaging. As departments will have set trauma guidelines, the focus is mainly on non-traumatic back pain.
Investigation and Management of Haematuria
Helen Ford and Sunil Bhandari
0.5 Hours
The session covers the features in the history and examination along with initial tests that can help distinguish between glomerular and urological causes of haematuria. An algorithm including indications for referral to Nephrology and Urology will be covered.
Health (Blood Borne Infection) and Handling Stress
Jan Welch and Kevin Holland-Elliott and Obadiah Elekima
0.5 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.
Investigation and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Alison Muir and Perry Elliott
0.5 Hours
This session covers the investigation, assessment and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
ECG Interpretation in the Bradycardic Patient
Adil Rajwani
0.25 Hours
This session will recap the essentials of ECG interpretation, focusing on conduction defects and heart block.
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.
Introduction to Common Symptoms and Help-Seeking
Dick Churchill
0.5 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.
Managing Obesity: Treatment Options
Jamie Blackshaw
0.5 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
0.5 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.
Identifying Overweight and Obesity and Risk Factors for Weight Gain
Jamie Blackshaw
0.5 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.
Meningitis in Children
Alison MacIsaac
0.5 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.
Managing Common Vaginal Bleeding Problems
Sarah Gray
0.5 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.
Memory Problems in Older People
Emma Vardy and Louise Robinson
0.5 Hours
This session describes an approach to the forgetful patient in primary care and provides an overview of the epidemiology and diagnosis of dementia.
Basic Principles of Health Promotion
Francesca Cleugh
0.5 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.
Examination of a Middle Aged Female Patient with Hand Symptoms
Rashid Hussain
0.5 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.
Gathering Information and Exploring Sensitive Issues
Dick Churchill and Deborah Christie
0.5 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.
Making the Occupational Link
Debbie Cohen Co-lead of the new National Programme for Work and Health for the Royal College of Gen
0.5 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
0.5 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.