Education Portal

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

Anaemia – whose problem is it?
Dr Bushra Ahsan

The spectrum of infectious disease in rural Pakistan
Dr Amjad Mahboob

Tertiary care cardiology in Pakistan – challenges, but also opportunities
Dr Ali Raza

Efficacy and roll out of new typhoid conjugate vaccination
Dr Mila Shakya

Recovery Trial for COVID-19, randomizing in midst of a pandemic
Dr Suchita Shrestha

Community acquired pneumonia in the elderly
Dr Milind Manohar Desai

Sepsis in the elderly - the known and unknown
Dr Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan

Neuropathic pain in the elderly
Professor Pazhani Ranganathan

HIV and cryptococcal meningitis
Professor Graeme Meintjes

HIV and the liver
Associate Professor Mark Sonderup

Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Patients with Cancer
Professor Hasan Farhan

Management of Systemic Hypertension in Patients with Cancer
Dr Israa Yaseen

The burden of treatment
Professor Frances Mair

Physician heal thyself – looking after ourselves and our colleagues
Dr Susan Robertson

Encephalitis
Dr Graham MacKay

Malabsorption
Dr Ben Shandro

Hospital at home…can we really keep patients away from hospital?
Professor Daniel Lasserson

Virtual clinics...are they the future?
Dr Jamie Smith

Respiratory medicine
Dr Tom Mackay

Infectious diseases
Dr Gwyneth Jones

Acute abdominal emergencies - management for physicians
Dr Malcolm Smith

Managing the dialysis patient with an acute medical problem
Professor Colin Geddes

Genetically-tailored medicine
Dr Catherine McWilliam

Dementia care and non-pharmacological interventions
Professor Debbie Tolson

Diabetic foot disease
Dr Hannah Robertson

Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state
Dr Jane Dymott

Palliative care – best practice
Dr Katherine Thompson

Managing chronic pain
Dr John Muthiah

Assessment prior to cardiac transplantation
Dr Veronica Rial-Baston

Assessment of the athletic heart
Professor Sanjay Sharma

The forgotten valve: interventions for the tricuspid valve
Dr Mike Mullen

The electrocardiograph - traces and interesting cases
Dr Paul Broadhurst

Device therapies - past, present and future
Dr Kim Rajappan

Coronary artery assessment - is angiography all we need?
Professor Nick Curzen

Challenging thyroid function test results
Professor Graham Leese & Professor Mark Gurnell

Management of hyponatraemia and diabetes insipidus
Professor Mirjam Christ-Crain

Advanced diabetes complications in pregnancy
Professor Helen Murphy

Frail people with diabetes
Professor David Strain

A young person with type 2 diabetes
Dr Soon Song

Eating disorders and psychological distress in people with type 1 diabetes
Dr Rose Stewart

Major trauma in older people - what's new?
Dr George Peck

The new geriatric medicine curriculum - what do trainees and trainers need to know?
Dr Susan Pound & Dr Rebecca Winter

Introducing the new World Falls Guidelines
Professor Tahir Masud

Transforming care for older people with multiple long-term conditions – the ADMISSION collaborative
Professor Miles Witham

What’s new for benign and malignant prostate disease?
Dr Hazel Smith

Personalised antibiotic prescribing
Dr Timothy Rawson

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) – new developments
Dr Vhairi Bateman

How can we use data to improve the quality of antibiotic prescribing
Dr Esmita Charani

Choosing the correct duration of antibiotics
Dr Brad Spellberg

Global ward round - clinical cases from around the world: Sri Lanka
Prof SAM Kularatne

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

What does healthy brain ageing look like?
Professor Alan Gow

Vascular brain health risk factors: do they make a difference?
Professor Terry Quinn

Emerging brain health risk factors
Dr Tom Russ

Non-neurodegenerative causes of cognitive decline
Dr Harriet Ball

Risk factor disclosure - what does the public want to know?
Dr Stina Saunders

The drugs might work...
Dr Cath Mummery

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

Viral hepatitis and kidney disease
Dr Andrew Fraser

Highly sensitized patients awaiting transplantation - barriers and challenges
Professor Colin Geddes

Peritoneal dialysis - how to fulfil patients renal replacement therapy choice and maintain technique
Dr Drew Henderson

Myeloma and associated disorders
Dr Jennifer Pinney

Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease and management
Professor Christopher Fox

Update on pulmonary hypertension - from new diagnostic guidelines to disease modifying treatments
Dr Rachel Davies

Indications and evidence for domiciliary NIV
Dr Swapna Mandal

Infective complications of lung transplantation
Dr Anna Reed

Review of British Thoracic Society clinical statement on pulmonary sarcoidosis
Dr Chris Atkins

Lessons from the COVID pandemic, what to expect next time
Professor Mark Woolhouse

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

Clotting in liver disease
Dr Julie Tarrant

Nutrition in liver disease
Dr Charlie Millson

Delirium: how to dispel the confusion
Dr Roy Soiza

Clinical trials in a crisis – lessons from RECOVERY
Sir Martin Landray

Large vessel giant cell arteritis (LV-GCA): not just a headache
Dr Lindsay Robertson

Personalised music playlists in different care settings
Mr Andy Lowndes

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

"Ten Things a Doctor Can Do" To Combat Climate Change
Dr Sarah Bartlett

NHS Scotland Sustainability Strategy: How trusts are putting this strategy in to action and what clinicians can do to support this
Dr James Morton

Working with a chronic health condition or disability and supporting those that do
Dr Kirsty Colquhon

Staff Burnout
Dr Helen Garr & Kirsty Woolley

Panel Discussion
Chair: Dr Helen Scally

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

Eosinophilic oesophagitis in 2023: are we any better in diagnosis and treatment?
Professor Stephen Attwood

Foreign body ingestion: dos and don'ts
Professor Xavier Dray

Immunotherapy in gastro-oesophageal cancer: the way forward?
Professor Russell Petty

Management of dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease
Professor Ailsa Hart

Diabetes and NAFLD - the way forward
Professor Philip Newsome

Management of ascites including albumin therapy
Professor Alastair O'Brien

Liver transplantation - what’s new and who gets referred
Dr Alexandra Thompson

Sepsis: the hidden medical emergency
Dr David Barr

Hypertensive emergencies
Dr Iain MacIntyre

Acute medical emergencies in pregnancy
Dr Elizabeth Routledge

Acute overdoses /deliberate self harm
Dr Euan Sandilands

Tachycardia
Dr Alison Lee