Geriatric Medicine

Events & e-learning tagged with "Geriatric Medicine"

Course image Geriatric Medicine 2022
EMUs 2022-23

22 November 2022

Talks

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

Course image A run-through of Rheumatology
EMUs 2021-22

24 May 2022

Talks

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

Course image Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day 2023
Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day

23-24 November 2023

Day 1

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

Day 2

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

Course image Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day 2022
Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day

24-25 November 2022

Day 1

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

Day 2

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

Course image Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day 2021
Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day

25-26 November 2021

Day 1

Endocrine emergencies
Dr Rohana Wright

The many faces of thrombosis and its care in COVID-19 infection and vaccination
Professor Beverley Hunt

Epidemiology of COVID-19 – what we’ve learnt from the CCP-UK study
Dr Antonia Ho

Hype, hubris and hope: the use of technology in managing long-term conditions
Professor Brian McKinstry

Big data – supporting decisions and improving patient care
Professor Cathie Sudlow

Social media for science communication and education
Dr Muge Cevik

The neurology of TLoC and funny turns
Dr Richard Davenport

Anaphylaxis during the pandemic
Dr Malcolm Shepherd

Day 2

Drugs and alcohol at the front door
Professor Colin Drummond

Abnormal liver function tests (LFTs)
Dr Andrew Fraser

Learning from complaints
Dr Rhona Siegmeth

Acute kidney injury and the ageing kidney
Dr Fergus Caskey

Complex multimorbidity
Professor Frances Mair

Whole system approach to urgent care for older people living with frailty
Professor Simon Conroy

The acute team – use of treatment escalation plans to reduce patient harm
Professor Robin Taylor

The geriatrician - management of end of life discussions in the acute setting
Dr Gordon Duncan

Course image Gastroenterology 2021
Gastroenterology

18 November 2021

Talks

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

Course image Medicine of Older People
Geriatric Medicine

 7 March 2024

Talks

Management of chronic kidney disease in the older adult
Dr Laura Clark

Assessment and management of the older adult with acute and sub-acute limb ischaemia
Dr Fiona Kerray

Sequential and combination therapy for osteoporosis
Professor Stuart Ralston

What's new in heart failure and how do I treat an older person with heart failure in 2024?
Dr Shuli Levy

The older person with falls: diagnoses not to make
Dr Nigel Stout

Course image Medicine of Older People 2023
Geriatric Medicine

10 March 2023

Talks

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

Course image Medicine of Older People 2022
Geriatric Medicine

11 March 2022

Talks

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

Course image Medicine of the Older Person 2021
Geriatric Medicine

 5 March 2021

Talks

Frailty and multi-morbidity
Professor Avan Sayer

Challenging behaviour, stress and distress
Dr Roger Smyth

Proportionate prescribing
Dr Martin Wilson

Digital health – tools to modernise healthcare?
Professor Lynn Rochester

The doctor will see you now (virtually)
Dr James Woods

Course image Medical Trainees Conference 2024
Medical Trainees' Conference

 26 January 2024

Talks

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

Course image Brain Health: Dementia & Associated Conditions - in partnership with Brain Health Scotland
Neurology

 31 October 2023

Talks

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

Course image Heart Failure 2024 Symposium
Joint Specialty Symposia

 03 October 2024

Talks

Device therapies for heart failure
Dr Andrew Flett

Understanding heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
Dr Alan Japp

When is HFpEF not HFpEF?
Professor Marianna Fontana

Management of heart failure in remote and rural areas
Dr Rajiv Sankaranarayanan

Frailty and polypharmacy in heart failure
Dr Rebekah Schiff

Who and when to refer to advanced HF therapies
Dr Alison Smyth

Course image RCPE: Aberdeen 2023
UK Conferences

15 March 2023 

Talks

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

Course image RCPE India: Updates in Clinical Medicine 2023
International Medical Updates (IMUs)

26 April 2023

Talks

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