Explaining, Motivating And Empowering
Dick Churchill and Deborah Christie
0.5 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....
Intervening to Reduce Risk - Brief Behavioural Interventions and a Patient at No Apparent Risk
Philippa Matthews
0.5 Hours
This is the second of four complementary sessions on behavioural and clinical interventions to reduce the risk of patients having, or developing in the future, sexual health problems. The three patients we consider here have a range of needs. There is a focus on interventions to reduce risk and we also consider a patient at no a....
Examination of a 54-Year-Old with Acute Upper Right Abdominal Pain
Sally Harkness - GP, Inverurie
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 acute upper abdominal pain in primary care.
Health Promotion In Clinical Consultations
Russell Viner - Consultant in Adolescent Medicine & Endocrinology
0.5 Hours
This session will assist you in understanding the practical concepts relating to the promotion of health in adolescents in various settings.
Introduction to Learning Disabilities in the Community
Matt Hoghton - General Practitioner and Medical Director
0.5 Hours
To provide effective education about the health needs and care of people with learning disabilities
Examination of a 60-Year-Old Woman with Shoulder Pain
Patricia M Berry
0.5 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to perform a focused, problem-based physical examination on a patient presenting with shoulder pain in primary care.
Examination of a 60-year-old Man with Unilateral Hearings Loss
Peter Godfrey
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 unilateral hearing loss in primary care.
Hand and Wrist Pain
Richard Smith - Consultant in Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Medicine
0.25 Hours
This session reviews the key hand and wrist conditions which present in primary care.
Management of Perioperative Arrest
Jerry Nolan and Ian Densham
0.5 Hours
This session describes the causes of cardiac arrest in the perioperative period and its treatment, particularly where this varies from standard advanced life support procedures, and when caused by anaphylaxis.
General Theatre Conduct (anaesthesia)
Fiona Kelly
0.5 Hours
This session outlines preoperative checks, as well as the handling of the unconscious patient, infection control issues, and good practice in theatre.
Basic Stroke
Joanna Wardlaw
0.5 Hours
This session describes the clinical features of stroke and how and when imaging is used. The different appearances over time on both computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are covered, along with important very early signs of infarction on CT. The differential diagnosis of patients presenting with stroke-l....
Emergency CT Brain Interpretation
Peter Keston
0.5 Hours
During this session, you will learn about emergency computed tomography (CT) imaging. This session, however, will not cover the detailed imaging interpretation required in all the clinical scenarios discussed. These are covered in other sessions.
Effects of Pathology on Component Parts of Secondary Pulmonary Lobule on HRCT
John Reynolds
0.5 Hours
This session will consider the normal anatomy of the secondary pulmonary lobule and then consider how various pathological processes alter the radiological appearances of the lobule.
Great Vessels, Main Peripheral Arteries and Veins
Kirti Mukherjee
0.5 Hours
This session describes the four sets of great vessels originating or terminating in the heart, along with their major branches and tributaries in the thorax, abdomen and limbs.
Image Interpretation - Plain X-rays of the Adult Chest: Emergency, Lines and Instrumentation
John Tuckett
0.5 Hours
This session focuses on chest radiographs in the Emergency Department and devices seen on chest radiographs. The findings in life-threatening conditions, the indications for devices and the relevant anatomy are described. Mistakes and complications of placement are discussed.
Imaging Neuroanatomy
Sam Stuart and Thomas Booth
0.75 Hours
This session covers neuroanatomy pertinent to the radiology registrar when starting to report computed tomography (CT) head examinations. The topics covered should allow pathology that is identified on CT head examinations to be placed in the correct anatomical location so that accurate reports can be written.
Health Promotion in Pregnancy (Smoking) Part 2: Health Promotion Approaches and Actions
Lydia Oliver
0.5 Hours
This is the second of two health promotion smoking cessation sessions. This session will examine smoking cessation health promotion approaches and actions, the behaviour change model, and applying the model of behaviour change.
Introduction to Development Part 2: Assessment and Referral
Dilip Nathan
0.5 Hours
This session will outline the developmental assessment of children up to the age of five.
Heart Murmurs in Children
Soumendra Chowdhury
0.5 Hours
This session reviews the different types of heart murmurs that can commonly present in children.
Negotiation
John Renshaw
0.5 Hours
This session will inform you on how to run a negotiation, the basics of the process and the shape of a positive outcome.
Emergency Cardiac Procedures: Pathology
Alison Parnell
0.5 Hours
This session will cover some of the pathological diagnoses that can cause haemodynamic instability and cardiac arrest, excluding left and right ventricular (LV and RV) pathology, which are covered elsewhere. Therefore hypovolaemia (including sepsis), cardiac tamponade, pulmonary embolus (PE), thoracic aortic dilatation and acute....
Migraine as a TIA Mimic
Nicola Giffin
0.5 Hours
This session will explore the pathogenesis of migraine with aura, the visual, sensory and motor symptoms that may present and how to differentiate migraine with aura from TIA.
Managing Hormonal Side Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives
Elizabeth Kennedy
0.5 Hours
Assessment and management of hormonal side effects in users of hormonal contraceptives.
Non-pharmacological Approaches to the Management of Chronic Pain in Older People
Clare Clarke and Blair H Smith
0.5 Hours
This session presents a wide spectrum of non-pharmacological approaches to the management of chronic pain in older adults, including the evidence for and against these approaches.