Communication Skills - General Practice
Jonathan Silverman
This session deals with the interrelationship between consultation models and communication skills. It introduces the Calgary-Cambridge guides as an example of both structure and skills and examines the problem of delineating all the skills.
Essential Techniques in Practice
Roger Neighbour
This session is the second of two sessions that will give you a grounding in the four categories of consulting skills you are likely to need in virtually every consultation. This session will cover establishing rapport, eliciting, responding to cues and building concordance.
Common Nutritional Problems in Pre-schoolers
John Puntis Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Leeds General Infirmary
0.50 Hours
Nutrition plays an important part in a range of conditions seen in early childhood, including allergy, constipation and vomiting. Some nutritional deficiencies (such as iron and vitamin D) are common in western societies, even though unavailability of food is not an issue. These problems may have long-term implications for healt....
Diagnosing Inflammatory Arthritis
Louise Warburton General Practitioner and GP with special interest in Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Medicine
0.50 Hours
This session will help GPs to recognise common symptoms of inflammatory arthritis, request appropriate investigations, know when to refer the patient for secondary or intermediate care, and be able to distinguish between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Ethics: Using the Deliberative Process
Aidan Macfarlane MA (Oxon), MA (Cantab), MB, BChir, FRCP, FRCPCH, FFPHM
0.50 Hours
This session aims to help you understand the deliberative process, which is one logical way of working through bioethical issues, particularly applicable in relation to sexual and reproductive health issues of young people.
Primary School Presentations
Alyson Hall Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, The Child and Family Practice and Honorar
0.50 Hours
This session gives an overview of common emotional and behavioural presentations in children in primary school (5 to 11 years old). It offers guidelines to assess and address parental concerns. We discuss symptoms that suggest there may be important underlying problems (alarm bells) and provide guidance for when you identify the....
Osteoporosis
Anne Sutcliffe Healthcare and Education Officer, The National Association for the Relief of Paget's
0.50 Hours
This session examines a range of risk factors for osteoporosis and considers appropriate investigations and treatment options for the disease. Lifestyle implications are also discussed.
Error Wisdom and Patient Safety
Jane Carthey Patient Safety and Human Factors Specialist and Christine Johnson General Practitione
0.50 Hours
This session will improve your understanding of how frontline healthcare staff can thwart patient safety incidents using the Three Buckets model. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in January 2015.
Parenting Support Part 1: Definitions and Concepts
Doreen Crawford Senior Lecturer, De Montfort University, Leicester
0.50 Hours
This session introduces the concept of a supportive relationship between healthcare professionals and parents and looks at the key elements of some of the leading parenting programmes that may be used for this purpose.
Overview of Cleft Lip and Palate
Maisa Seppala, Martyn Cobourne
This session will give you a basic understanding of the prevalence, aetiology, developmental background and principles of treatment of cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P).
Adverse Drug Effects
Caroline Burgess and Sarah Morse and Gillian Cavell
0.50 Hours
Monitoring of adverse drug events (ADE), both adverse drug reactions (ADR) and medication errors, is important to ensure safe use of medicines. Organisations with responsibility for collecting information about ADE exist but rely on practitioners to report the event to them. This session aims to inform trainees about how to reco....
Paediatric - Non-epileptic Attack Disorders
Alasdair Parker
This session looks at paroxysmal episodes that mimic epilepsy in children and when/where parents should go for further advice.
Paediatric - The Child Not At School
Mandy Rose
0.50 Hours
This session will give an overview of common reasons why children may not be attending school and the role of the health professional in identifying, managing and supporting children out of school.
Classic ECGs and Infarct Territories
Chris Critoph
This session provides an overview of ischaemic electrocardiograms (ECGs) in acute medicine. It is not intended to teach how to interpret ECGs, but to understand the underlying coronary anatomy relative to their interpretation.
Criteria for Diagnosing Osteoporosis
Nicola Cooper
0.25 Hours
This session discusses the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis.
Assessment - Trainee GPs
Daryl Goodwin
0.50 Hours
This session describes the main tools used to assess trainee GPs and distinguishes between formative and summative forms of assessment. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in February 2015.
Communicating with Patients who Speak Little or No English
Jackie Beavan and Paramjit Gill
This session is designed to enhance communication skills when dealing with a patient who may not speak English fluently and may require the services of a professional interpreter.
Running Late Again?
Adam Fraser
This session aims to explore the determinants of consultation length and what it means to consult efficiently.
Consulting with Children
Cassy Henderson
0.50 Hours
This session gives an overview of the ways in which children differ from adult patients. It offers techniques that may assist effective consultation and overriding principles that must be taken into account.
Behavioural Problems in Children
Lynne Glover
0.50 Hours
This session reviews factors preventing children from learning normal behaviour and considers appropriate assessment in primary care. Management options are examined and the value of a resource directory of useful contacts is highlighted. This session was reviewed by Sally Higginbottom and last updated in October 2014.
Care of People with Dementia
Emma Vardy and Louise Robinson
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the broader aspects of caring for people with dementia, including issues around driving, non-cognitive symptoms and how people with dementia may also develop problems with swallowing.
Breast Pain
Mary Selby
0.50 Hours
This session describes the presentation and categorisation of breast pain, the assessment of affected women in primary care, their initial management and the indications for referral.
Care of People with Intellectual Disability
Teresa Kippax - Adult Protection Coordinator for Dorset Primary Care Trust
0.50 Hours
To provide guidance about the issues which limit access to primary care services by people with learning disabilities and how these can be overcome.
Assessment of Physical Symptoms
Sarah Yardley
0.50 Hours
Assessment of physical wellbeing is one of the four core areas (also known as domains) of a holistic assessment. In this session you will explore assessment of physical symptoms and how this may interact with the other aspects of a holistic assessment. This session was reviewed by Sarah Yardley and Christina Faull and last updat....
Assessment of Social and Occupational Well-being
Amanda Poppleton
0.50 Hours
This session considers the importance of addressing social and occupational needs for patients at the end of life. As well as considering when and how to assess, you will be introduced to a framework to assist you in formulating achievable goals with patients. This session was reviewed by Rachel Atkinson and Christina Faull and....