0.5 Hours
This session provides a framework for an integrated management of depression.
0.50 Hours
As the end of life approaches, patients with either advanced cancer or other progressive life-limiting illnesses may experience a reduction in their cognitive function, such as forgetfulness, confusion or agitation. This session provides a framework for the management of diminishing cognitive function. This session was review....
Doula care meets each of the triple aims of the Affordable Care Act: improving health outcomes for all, improving the experience of care, and lowering costs by reducing non-beneficial and unwanted medical interventions. Cost is the greatest barrier to use of doula support. Reimbursement for doula services by private insurance, M....
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the field of human factors, including the human factors challenges in primary care. It also provides explanation of why improving patient safety requires us to consider human factors when designing healthcare systems. This session was reviewed by Louise Newson and last updated in November 201....
0.5 Hours
This session aims to raise awareness regarding obesity in pregnancy and its contribution to increased morbidity and mortality for the woman and her baby.This session was reviewed by Amanda Avery and updated in February 2017.
0.25 Hours
Foot pain is a common presentation in primary care. This session considers patients presenting with heel, midfoot and forefoot pain and follows their presentation, assessment and management.
0.5 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to perform a focused, problem-based physical examination on an adult presenting with possible symptoms of an overactive thyroid in primary care.
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the process of emotional development with a description of the basic emotions, when they first appear, and what they mean. We will look at how infants learn to discriminate between emotions and develop secondary emotions. We will describe the importance of parenting in emotional development. We will look at....
0.5 Hours
This is the third 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 in this session have a range of needs, however all of them might benefit from having an STI or HIV test. We also consider the is....
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 in primary care with worsening breathlessness.
0.5 Hours
This session will help you to conduct a quick, general examination of the eyes of an adult in a primary care context. This session was reviewed by Sally Higginbottom and last updated in February 2015.
0.5 Hours
This session explores the difficulty children with neurological disabilities commonly encounter with feeding, together with associated problems that can result in growth failure and malnutrition-related multi-system complications. It covers assessment and management, which often involves a range of professionals including a diet....
0.5 Hours
This session is aimed at all out of hospital clinicians, GPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Community Midwives and those providing urgent or unscheduled care. It will explore neutropenic sepsis and sepsis in maternity, potential opportunities for prevention and some of the recent changes and innovation relevant to sepsis.
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the interaction between the hypothalamus and both parts of the pituitary gland. A description of the relevant hormones and their actions is also included.
0.75 Hours
This session aims to present the clinical rationale for proton beam therapy (PBT), and the evidence for treatment of different types of cancer.
0.5 Hours
A case-based approach to the recognition and management of neonatal jaundice.
0.5 Hours
This session describes how an insulin injection should be given using a pen device.
0.5 Hours
This session provides the knowledge required to calculate the carbohydrate content of foods for a well, newly diagnosed child with type I diabetes on a basal bolus regime.
0.5 Hours
This session gives an overview of common presentations of genital eruptions and infestations. It also details appropriate treatment options.
0.5 Hours
This session explains the different types of obstructive lesions and how to approach diagnosis and management.
0.5 Hours
This session explains how to identify, assess and manage chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions in children.
0.5 Hours
This session will cover the identification and investigation of jaundice. It will describe the underlying causes and the implications for surgery.
0.5 Hours
This session describes the rationale and application of using combinations of analgesic medicines.
0.5 Hours
This session looks at generic signs (such as silhouettes) on chest x-ray (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) scans and how to interpret them. Also covered are the air bronchogram, air crescent, and gloved finger.
0.5 Hours
This session reviews the aetiology, pathology and radiology of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), also known as extrinsic allergic alveolitis.