Education Portal

A Generalist's Guide to Angioedema and Anaphylaxis
Dr Alexandra Croom

Multimorbidity – implications for healthcare delivery
Professor Frances Mair

Multimorbidity is everyone's business: expanding the Internal Medicine Group 1 specialties
Dr David Marshall

Updates in Giant Cell Arteritis
Dr Sarah Mackie

A Generalists' Guide to Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies
Professor Dennis McGonagle

Clinical Cases: Managing Multimorbidity in Patients with Rheumatological Conditions
Professor Adewale Adebajo & Dr Thomas Nadin

Recognising Myeloma
Dr Roderick Oakes

Major haemorrhage from the haematology perspective
Dr Suzanne Docherty

Updates in Multiple Myeloma
Dr Kevin Boyd

How to approach hyponatraemia
Professor Aled Rees

TFTs for the generalist
Professor Miles Levy

A basic guide to insulin pumps
Dr Rachel Williamson

Management of vertebral and sacral fragility fractures in older people
Professor Opinder Sahota

Frailty in the emergency department
Dr Amy Armstrong

Management of heart failure in elderly patients
Dr Eilidh Hill

Case-based discussion: Putting the NCEPOD CAP Report into practice
Professor Charlotte Summers

Non-clinical: Setting up a virtual Respiratory ward
Dr Tom Mackay

Ultrasound for the generalist
Dr Sarbjit Clare

Recreational drug toxicity
Dr Euan Sandilands

Lego models of patient flow
Dr Adrian Boyle

Assessing suitability for RRT versus conservative care
Professor Aine Burns

Hyperkalaemia: update on hospital and community management
Dr Annette Alfonzo

Resistant hypertension: investigation and management
Dr Iain MacIntyre

Palliative care emergencies
Professor Paul Coulter

Pain management in palliative care - what are our options?
Professor Marie Fallon

Technology in clinical medicine
Dr Rachel Sutherland

Maternal medicine on the acute medical take
Dr Beth Routledge

Upper GI bleeds: an update
Dr Michael Burkitt

Managing acute IBD complications
Dr Gillian Bain

Why is my patient vomiting?
Dr Peter Paine

Dealing with complaints
Dr Helen Gillett

Dealing with the DVLA
Dr Ishwinder Thethy

Dealing with significant event analyses
Dr Dean Kerslake

Recognising and Managing Common Inherited Cardiac Diseases
Dr William Jenkins

Cardiac Considerations in Patients with Cancer
Dr Shelley Rahman Haley

Dyslipidaemias - an update for the non-specialist
Dr Jonathan Malo

Latest developments in lung cancer treatments
Professor Siow Ming Lee

Recognising oncological emergencies
Dr Moray Kyle

Updates on immunotherapy
Dr Anna Olsson-Brown

What's new in HIV
Dr Nicola Mackie

Sexually transmitted infections
Dr Daniel Clutterbuck

Assessment and management of cardiogenic shock
Dr Louise Hartley

Critical care outreach
Mr Ronnie Dornan

Clinical event debriefing
Dr Alex Stirzaker

Modern and future treatments for rheumatoid arthritis
Professor John Isaacs

How to approach the red hot joint
Dr Owen Cronin

An update on vasculitis
Dr Paula Dospinescu

Management of first seizure
Professor Ley Sander

Acute ophthalmic emergencies
Mr Declan Flanagan

Mental capacity vs Mental Health Act: when & how
Dr Prathibha Rao

Managing allergic rhinoconjunctivitis
Professor Syed Hasan Arshad

Health economics
Mr Alex Bates

Proxy decision-makers under Scots Law - Powers of attorney, welfare guardians and intervention orders
Dr Roger Smyth

Health promotion and illness prevention
Dr Josie Murray

Same day emergency care
Dr Rachel Sutherland

Clinical decision making
Dr Kerri Baker

Venous thrombosis: Investigation & Management
Dr Andrew Page

Platelets - the highs & lows; when to worry?
Dr Emily Watts

Tips and pitfalls in the investigation of anaemia
Dr Adam Forbes

Pneumothorax – acute management update
Dr Andrew Stanton

Obstructive sleep apnoea - who needs priority referral?
Dr Sophie West

COPD: when to ventilate?
Professor Stephen Bourke

Assessing frailty in MAU
Dr Sarah Turpin

Hospital at home - Complex care and end of life care
Professor Adam Gordon

Mood and Memory
Dr Katherine Paramore

Endocrine causes of hypertension
Dr Marie Freel

Managing diabetes in the AMU
Professor Mark Strachan

An update on calcium disorders
Dr Rachel Crowley

An update on renal vasculitis
Dr Neeraj Dhaun

Chronic kidney health
Dr Jane Goddard

Pain management in palliative medicine - complex pain and interventions
Dr Alison Mitchell

Prognostication in advanced cancer
Professor Patrick Stone

Understanding biologics and targeted synthetic disease modifying drugs
Dr Nicola Gullick

Clinical Cases in Rheumatology
Dr Helen Harris

Osteoporosis - the importance of a holistic approach
Professor David Reid

Acute medical problem in pregnancy
Dr Anne Armstrong

Transitions: from paediatric care to adult medicine
Dr Una MacFadyen

Diagnosis and Treatment in Clinical Genetics - it just keeps getting better and better
Dr Jonathan Berg

Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding: initial assessment and management
Dr Sarah Hearnshaw

What's new in IBD?
Dr Daniel Gaya

Liver regeneration, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma
Dr Tom Bird

Not just black and white: perfusion in neuroimaging
Dr Derek Smith

Abdominal pain - is it surgical?
Ms Nikola Henderson

The swollen painful joint - when to call the orthopod and what they want to know
Mr Jamie Nicholson

Diagnosis and management of heart failure
Dr Alan Japp

Acute management of life threatening arrhythmias
Dr Anna Marie Choy

Unconscious bias in medicine - how people and institution can challenge and change
Ms Scarlett McNally

Professional communication & team working
Dr Paul Rocchiccioli

Organ donation - opting out, not in
Dr Nicholas Torpey

Data driven clinical practice
Professor Mahmood Adil

Sustainability in healthcare and social care
Dr Emma Vaux

Mindfulness in medicine and medical education
Dr Susan Chater

Quality Improvement
Dr Jean Macleod

A realistic approach to evidence based medicine
Dr Christopher Tiplady

Fatigue, shift work and the evidence
Dr Christopher Sheridan

Insight and reflection when things go wrong
Dr Michael Devlin

Resilience
Dr Beatrice Downie

Feeding your Microbiome - linking what we eat with its impact on our health via gut bacteria
Professor Konstantinos Gerasimidis

How Microbiome science is changing our understanding of lung health and disease
Prof James D Chalmers

Healthcare and Climate Change
Prof Hugh Montgomery OBE

Prescribing to reduce impact on our Environment
Dr Sharon Pfleger

Radiology requests to reduce impact on our environment
Dr Michael Jackson

Patient Perspective
Karima Rahman

Overview: What is ME/CFS, brief pathophysiology, common symptoms, PEM and pacing
Dr Michelle Bull & Ms Karen Leslie

POTS and Dysautonomia- what, tests, current treatments
Dr Nicholas Gall

Severe and very severe ME/CFS, including impact on nutrition
Jaime Seltzer

Long Covid - What, how, who, impact
Professor Danny Altmann

Current and emerging research
Dr David Putrino

Transgender Inclusive Healthcare: Key Concepts and Practical Applications
Dr Caspian Priest

The acute asthma exacerbation: escalating treatment, discharge planning & follow-up
Dr Laura Barr

Advanced life support: beyond the ALS algorithm
Dr David Hall

Clinical debriefing after emergencies: how, when, and why?
Dr Emma Phillips

Cases that have changed me
Professor James Dear, Dr Sarah Keir & Dr Edwin Jesudason

Differentiating dizziness
Dr Jennifer Harrison

Could this be vasculitis?
Professor Neeraj Dhaun

The unwell patient with cancer - is their immunotherapy to blame?
Dr Ashita Waterston

Less than full-time training, barriers and future needs. A UK-wide online survey of doctors in training
Dr Hannah Preston

The distressed patient
Dr Wojtek Wojcik

Bleeped by the obstetrics ward
Dr Beth Routledge

Polypharmacy: tips for managing a patient taking lots of medications
Dr Henry Woodford

Panel Discussion: My biggest mistake – learning lessons from errors
Dr Adelina McLeod, Dr Christopher Tiplady & Dr Ashley Price

Myeloproliferative disorders in the elderly
Dr Christopher Tiplady

Is my headache serious?
Dr William Sedley

My heart is racing
Dr Honey Thomas

Clinical Lesson 1: Beware the unprovoked hypoglycaemia!
Dr Eleanor Brain

Clinical Lesson 2: Wheeze or stridor? A careful listening to prevent impending respiratory doom
Dr Saquib Siddiqui

Out-of-hours decision-making in deteriorating patients by foundation year doctors: Relationship to moral distress
Dr Justin Geddes

Tricky Troponins
Dr Javed Iqbal

Angioedema and urticaria - is this anaphylaxis?
Professor Malcolm Shepherd

Recording of consultations - important part of the future of the NHS
Professor Sue Carr

Acute symptom management in Palliative Care
Dr Abigail Walton

Detecting decompensation in chronic liver disease
Dr Jude Morris

What’s your poison?
Dr Emma Morrison

Debilitating paraneoplastic phenomena
Dr Victoria Floyd-Ellis

Kidney disease… is it worth the weight?
Dr Peter Todd

The heart of the matter is the matter of a slow-beating heart
Dr Yong Yong Tew

MuCovid-21 study: Mucormycosis at an Indian tertiary care centre during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Sumeet Kumar

Performance status: A key factor in predicting mortality in the first wave of COVID-19 in South-East Scotland
Dr Callum Mutch​ & Dr Daniella Ross

Presentation of Prizes

Tackling a storm – managing endocrine emergencies
Dr Catherine Napier

A colitis crisis – IBD flares and their assessment and management
Dr Husnain Jafferbhoy

Reducing disability – thrombectomy for acute stroke
Dr Ivan Wiggam

Personalised medicine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Dr Nuru Noor

Teasing apart tuberculosis – TB on the medical take
Dr Tino Capocci

Misbehaving nephrons – assessing and managing acute kidney injury
Dr Samira Bell

It's just skin, what's the emergency?
Professor Minal Singh

Pyrexia of unknown origin: an unusual case
Dr Jennifer Grewar

Riddle me this: Low sodium, high BP & low GCS? Now place your bets!
Dr Alisa Angus

A prospective audit of bed utilisation and delays in care across London
Dr Milla Marinova

A European Perspective on Drugs and Alcohol
Ms Maria Neufeld

Scotland's Story
Dr Peter Rice

Case History
Dr Carey Lunan

Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Professor Ana Hanlon Dearman

Mental Health
Dr Rebecca Lawrence

Cancer and cardiovascular disease
Professor Tim Stockwell

Liver disease
Dr Ewan Forrest

Alcohol interventions
Professor Julia Sinclair

Barriers and solutions
Dr Alastair MacGilchrist

Clinical presentations in primary and secondary care
Dr Jonathan Brett

Clinical presentations in primary and secondary care
Dr Carey Lunan

What are the drivers of drug deaths (DRD)?
Professor Catriona Matheson

Lessons from an international experience
Dr Jane Mounteney

Bringing evidence and innovation into drug services in Scotland
Dr Saket Priyadarshi

Novel approaches to harm reduction
Dr Jenny Scott

Drug use and the law
Iain H B Smith

How we start influences how we finish: a life course approach to disease reduction
Dr Valentin Fuster

Does early investment in health produce health gain?
Professor Sir Michael Marmot

A life course approach to intergenerational health
Dr Sarah Verbiest

Avoiding obesity - the place of medical treatments and social prescribing
Christiana Melam

Maximising your gut health
Dr Richard Hansen

Covid-19: real-time monitoring of Covid-19 in Scotland
Professor Mark Woolhouse

Covid-19: human behaviour from individual frailty to collective resilience
Professor Stephen Reicher

Covid-19: decision-making in public health
Professor Linda de Caestecker

Covid-19: decision-making in clinical practice
Professor Ewen Harrison

Covid-19: Scottish response - past, present and future
Dr Nicholas Phin

Health inequalities and Covid-19
Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Covid-19 and disadvantage
Professor Vittal Katikireddi

Covid-19: opportunities for public health ethics?
Dr ELM Maeckelberghe

Covid-19: opportunities to improve the crisis responses to homelessness
Ewan Aitken

Covid-19: public health messaging during the crisis and looking ahead
Professor Linda Bauld

Welcome & Introductory Remarks
Professor Andrew Elder

Opening address
Professor Linda Bauld OBE

SIGN for the next 30 years...
Professor Angela Timoney

New approaches to guideline development - harnessing the work of others and avoiding duplication
Dr Miroslav Klugar

Impact of SIGN guidelines
Dr Jane Morris, Dr Jay Shetty, Dr Adam Daly, Professor Lesley Colvin & Dr Roberta James

Closing address: SIGN of the times
Professor Sir Gregor Smith

What I wish I knew as an FY1
Dr Samuel Peat

The Unwell Patient; Who, what how?
Dr Jessica McNiff

Mastering the E-portfolio
Dr Aparna Potluru

The well-rounded foundation doctor
Dr Aoife Duignan

How to survive your first week
Dr Jessica Selwood

Mastering the curriculum
Dr Gabriella Woodward-Smith

The jobs of a new doctor
Dr Vig Kandasamy

Who do I turn to for help?
Dr Jess McNiff

FY1 top tips: how to survive your first day as an FY1
Dr Libby Sampey

FY1 top tips: practical advice and portfolio
Dr Ronak Shah

How to deal with deteriorating patients
Dr Marilena Giannoudi

Thriving beats surviving: navigating your first year as a doctor
Dr Charlotte Squires

Q&A discussion
Dr Libby Sampey, Dr Ronak Shah, Dr Marilena Giannoudi, Dr Charlotte Squires. Chair: Dr Georgina Phillips

Top Tips for an FY1
Dr Georgina Phillips

Practicalities of managing acutely unwell patients, more than ABCDE
Dr Jonathan Bardgett

From Student Doctor to Doctor
Dr Alan MacKenzie

Q&A discussion
Dr Georgina Phillips, Dr Jonathan Bardgett, Dr Alan MacKenzie. Chair: Dr Victoria Moffat

Top tips for FY1s
Dr Christopher Holt

Managing the acutely unwell patient
Dr Danielle Jeffreys

Transitioning from student to doctor: top tips for keeping a healthy work life balance
Dr Patrice Baptiste

Top tips for FY1: A personal perspective
Dr Jonathan Kang

Managing unwell patients: Tips for your first on-call shifts
Dr Nicola Robinson

FY1: Managing the transition from student to doctor - learning to learn while working
Dr Fiona Cameron

The future of internal medicine training - A new curriculum for 2019
Dr Mike Jones

What it means to be a Physician
Dr Kerri Baker

Developing AI for use in healthcare: potential pitfalls and model fairness
Professor Michael Lones

Theory into Practice: an industry perspective
Eric Greveson

Medical law: capacity and detentions
Dr Matthew Sheridan

Law and ethics around decision-making at end of life
Dr Stephen Fenning

After a significant event: the review process
Dr Claire Gordon

Championing women in leadership
Dame Anne Richards

Building and leading effective teams - lessons from NASA and beyond
Professor Steven Yule

Widening participation
Dr MaryAnn Ferreux

Leadership and role-modelling: incorporating intersectional identities
Professor Chloe Orkin

Women’s leadership in medicine during the pandemic
Dr Melissa A. Wheeler and Dr Laksmi Sakura Govindasamy

Connect & Collaborate: creating a greener and more sustainable NHS Scotland together
Professor Sir Gregor Smith

The role of the World Health Organization (WHO) and member states
Dr Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum

Local actions for global impact
Dr Sarah Bartlett

The role of the College
Professor Andrew Elder

Panel Discussion and Q&A
Chair: The Honourable Kirsty Duncan PC MP

Deprescribing
Dr Helen Kingston

Community engagement work
Charlotte Carson

Effecting change in anaesthesia; from grassroots to Government
Dr Kenneth Barker

Overview of how climate change is affecting African countries
Dr Deoraj Caussy

Discussion
Chair: Professor Jannie Hugo

Chemical pollution, the climate crisis and the health of children globally
Professor Philip Landrigan

Using climate information to control climate sensitive disease
Dr Judith Omumbo

Air pollution and health: how are we doing in Scotland?
Professor Jill Belch

Discussion
Chair: Professor Alan Dangour

Greener NHS programme one year on: what have we learnt?
Dr Natalia Kurek

Reducing harm caused by health care and pharmaceuticals in the environment
Dr Sharon Pfleger

Discussion
Chair: Dr Emily Broadis

COP26 - key messages
Professor David Reay

Health co-benefits and trade-offs of UK net-zero policies
Professor Sir Andy Haines

Discussion
Chair: Professor Betsy Bradley