Education Portal

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

An approach to the jaundice patient
Professor Dermot Gleeson

Liver transplant – who and when?
Dr Kenneth Simpson

Updates in viral hepatitis
Dr Andrew Bathgate

Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Dr Maryanne Caruana

myHealth: the journey to develop a national patient portal
Dr Hugo Agius Muscat

The coagulopathy of liver disease - from bench to bedside
Professor Alexander Gatt

Can we fix it? Recurrent infections and antimicrobial stewardship
Dr Morgan Evans

Preserved ejection fraction heart failure – when to call the cardiologist
Dr Alan Japp

Covid-19 outcomes based on ethnicity and gender
Professor Vittal Katikireddi

COVAX and vaccine equity: lessons learnt
Dr Ayoade Alakija

Differential attainment in healthcare workforce education and training in the UK
Professor Mala Rao

Nephrotic syndrome: primary and secondary
Professor Georgi Abraham

Diarrhoea at the front door: updates in inflammatory bowel disease
Dr Elaine Robertson

Medical and surgical challenges of the bariatric patient
Mr Andrew Robertson

Use of non-invasive ventilation in acute and chronic respiratory failure (COPD and Sleep Apnoea)
Dr Patrick Murphy

Front door frailty and realistic medicine in action
Dr Rowan Wallace

High yield radiology at the front door
Dr Simon Jackson

Adverse childhood experiences
Professor Sir Harry Burns

Healthcare for prisoners
Dr Craig Sayers

Be aware of the rare: how not to miss inherited metabolic disorders in adults
Dr Eve Miller-Hodges

Maternal medicine – how to keep your NEWS lower than the patient
Professor Catherine Nelson-Piercy

SGLT-2 inhibitors (glofizins) – should we put them in tap water?
Dr Gemma Currie

Complications from contemporary cancer treatments
Dr Ninian Lang

How to manage acute severe and life threatening asthma
Dr Donald Noble

Lung infection: today and tomorrow
Professor James Chalmers

Sepsis: the hidden medical emergency
Dr Monica Doyle

Targeting treatment for COVID-19
Professor Sir Michael Jacobs

Vasculitis for the generalist
Dr Paula Dospinescu

The red leg: assessment in the acute medical unit
Dr Girish Gupta

The hypotensive toxic patient
Dr Euan Sandilands

The ECG in the poisoned patient
Professor Michael Eddleston

The behaviourally disturbed patient
Dr Catriona Howes

Diabetes
Dr Nicola Zammitt

Melaena
Dr Sian Gilchrist

Deranged sodium
Dr Stuart Ritchie

The abnormal potassium
Dr Matt King

Hypercalcaemia
Dr Rachel Williamson

The abnormal blood gas
Dr Mark Longshaw

Deranged thyroid function tests
Dr Fraser Gibb

Chest pain
Dr Anne Scott

Syncope
Dr John Davison

Breathlessness
Dr Gerry Carr-White

Acute medical problems in pregnancy
Miss Joanna Girling

Oncology emergencies: new drugs, new problems
Professor Ruth Plummer

HIV in the UK
Dr Naomi Bulteel

Reducing admissions and changing behaviours
Dr James Marple

Stroke
Professor Tom Robinson

Intracerebral haemorrhage
Professor Nikola Sprigg

Pain in advanced disease: assessment and management in the Acute Medical Unit
Dr Fiona Finlay

Anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism
Dr Ryan Rodgers

Too much medicine?
Dr Martin Wilson

Cancer of unknown primary
Dr Sally Clive

Anaemia
Dr Fiona Scott

Sexual health in the acute medical unit
Dr Sarah Allstaff

Shared decision making
Dr Caroline Whitworth

Understanding the 'human' factor
Dr Vicky Tallentire

Pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO)
Dr Elham Khatamzas

The acutely jaundiced patient
Dr Michael Williams

Anticoagulation
Professor Henry Watson

Resolving conflict in healthcare
Dr Claire Macaulay

The public understanding of risk
Dr Sander van der Linden

Acute kidney injury (AKI)
Professor Neil Turner

Pulmonary emboli (PE)
Dr Jay Suntharalingam

A good death
Dr Juliet Spiller

Paracetamol overdose (OD)
Dr Emma Morrison

Skin failure
Dr Fiona Meredith

Managing the acute take during a major incident
Dr Philip Lee

Wearables in medicine
Dr Ali K Yetisen

Exercise and health
Dr Gregor Smith

Tachyarrhythmias
Dr Paul Broadhurst

The jugular venous pulse (JVP)
Dr Andrew Flapan

Medically unexplained symptoms
Dr Wojtek Wojcik

The stethoscope - a tribute
Dr Andrew Flapan

Psychology of diagnostic thinking
Dr Laura Zwaan

The state of the art of medicine
Professor Abraham Verghese

No hocus in PoCUS!
Dr Rosaleen Baruah

Resuscitating bedside medicine
Dr Brian T Garibaldi

Imaging - where we are and where we are headed
Professor Joanna Wardlaw CBE

The robot will see you now - AI in patient care
Mr Iain Hennessey

Diagnostic potential of the microbiome
Dr Orla O'Sullivan

Early detection of liver disease
Professor John Dillon

Cytosponge: integrating a non-invasive test for Barrett's oesophagus into clinical care
Mr Paul Glen

Nutritional aspects of functional GI disease: a case based discussion
Dr Asma Fikree

Clinical conundrums in coeliac disease (CD)
Dr Helen Gillett

Decision making and best practice in patients with learning disabilities
Dr Hannah Crawford

Living with inflammatory bowel disease - experience from a patient: resilience and fatigue
Professor Marla Dubinski

Lessons from a COVID era: problems and solutions
Dr Alastair McKinlay

Updates in management of gastrointestinal bleeding
Dr Norma McAvoy

Liver disease in the elderly
Dr Jyoti Hansi

Luminal disease in the elderly
Dr Robert Caslake

Inflammatory bowel disease - gearing up for the future
Dr Chris Lamb

Tackling Scotland’s alcohol problem – doing what works
Dr Alastair MacGilchrist

Eosinophilic oesophagitis - recent advances
Professor Stephen Attwood

Patient and lesion selection for endoscopic resection
Dr Siwan Thomas-Gibson

Gastrointestinal adverse effects in cancer treatment
Dr Ana Wilson

Bowel cancer update:
"Are we FIT enough?"
Professor Bob Steele CBE

Liver transplantation:
“For the greater good?”
Dr Joanna Leithead

How to investigate reflux
Dr Rami Sweis

"But... I don't eat anything, doctor"
A role for bariatric endoscopy
Dr Jude Oben

An update on mesenteric ischaemia
Mr Wesley Stuart

Nutritional challenges in gut failure
Dr Ruth McKee

How can we ‘get it right first time’ for older people?
Dr Adrian Hopper

Organisational, social and cultural determinants of healthcare delivery for older people
Professor Paul Gray

Parkinson’s disease (PD) and acute illness
Dr Edward Richfield

Osteoporosis
Dr Veronica Lyell

Anaemia
Dr Neeraj Bhala

End stage renal disease
Professor Edwina Brown

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

Diabetes dilemmas
Dr Rachel Williamson

Portal hypertensive problems
Dr Stuart McPherson

Renal Riddles
Dr Siobhan McManus

The psychology of practice change
Professor Jo Hart

How neurology has shaped our understanding of memory
Dr Tom Miller

Toxicology troubles
Dr Euan Sandilands

ECG Emergencies
Dr Gwilym Morris

Palliative care - Key principles for physicians
Dr Gursaran Purewal

The trop trap and walking pneumonia
Dr Kaitlin Mayne

No NEWS is good NEWS
Dr Madeleine Sharpe

The curious case of persistent pyrexia
Dr Natalie Lee

Important variations in care of the elderly services
Dr Alison Donaldson

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

Evening 1 - PACES exam format and Station 1 (abdominal and respiratory examinations)
Dr Nicola Zammitt and Dr Sue Pound

Evening 2 - Station 3 (cardiovascular system and nervous system examinations)
Dr Nicola Zammitt and Dr Tom MacKay

Evening 3 - Station 5 (clinical consultation) and Stations 2 and 4
Dr Nicola Zammitt and Professor Andrew Elder

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