Infectious Diseases

Events & e-learning tagged with "Infectious Diseases"

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 2020
Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day

24-27 November 2020

Day 1

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

Day 2

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

Day 3

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

Day 4

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

Course image Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day 2019
Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day

28-29 November 2019

Day 1

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

Day 2

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

Course image Contemporary and Futuristic Cardiology 2021
Cardiology

28 October 2021

Talks

Pulmonary Hypertension: past, present and future
Professor David Kiely & Dr Alex Rothman

Cardiovascular effects of COVID-19 - an update
Professor Marc Dweck

Congenital heart disease
Professor S Yen Ho

Stroke intervention
Dr David Hargroves

Virtual consulting room and telemedicine
Dr Paul Friedman

Course image Futuristic Medicine 2019
Futuristic Medicine

01 February 2019

Talks

Healthcare in the 4th industrial revolution
Professor Andrew Morris

Determinants of disease – lessons from the UK Biobank
Professor Cathie Sudlow

Stem cell and other cell therapies
Professor Sue Kimber

Extremes of physiology – adaptive and maladaptive processes
Dr Kenneth Baillie

Parkinson’s disease – from the clinic to bench to clinic
Professor Roger Barker

The prospects for personalised medicine
Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed

Lighting up the lung
Professor Kev Dhaliwal

Superbugs and antibiotic resistance
Dr Susan Hopkins

Tackling the ageing demographic
Professor Sarah Harper

Course image Infectious Diseases 2023
Infectious Diseases

 07 September 2023

Talks

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

Course image Infectious Diseases 2022 - Beyond Antibiotics: A Preventative Approach to Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases

21 November 2022

Talks

Bacterial genomics in clinical practice
Professor Matthew Holden

What can virus genomics tell us about vaccine responses and schedules?
Professor Emma Thomson

Monkeypox - a new STI?
Dr Michael Marks

Universal paediatric immunology - how do the vaccines work and what impacts should we be aiming for?
Professor Adam Finn

What evidence-based changes have informed current infection control policy?
Emma Hooker

Course image Infectious Diseases 2021 - 'Tackling old and new foes in the global fight against infectious diseases'
Infectious Diseases

03 June 2021

Talks

Prevention and management of congenital infection - remember the congenital “STI’s”
Dr Hermione Lyall

Climate change and global expansion of viral haemorrhagic fevers
Professor Neelika Malavige

Hepatitis C in Scotland: recently arrived but soon to depart?
Professor John Dillon

Addressing pandemics old and new: current challenges and opportunities in control of tuberculosis and Covid-19
Dr Soumya Swaminathan

The unequal pandemic: COVID-19 and health inequalities
Professor Clare Bambra

Human trafficking and health: a global health concern
Professor Cathy Zimmerman

Course image Infectious Diseases 2020
Infectious Diseases

09 December 2020

Talks

Modification of the microbiome using faecal microbiota transplantation
Dr Christopher Green

Emerging concepts in sepsis management
Dr Andrew Conway Morris

The Covid-19 response in Africa: leaving no one behind
Professor Francisca Mutapi

Outbreak of novel respiratory viruses
Dr Jake Dunning

Controlled human infection models as tools in vaccine development
Professor Andrew Pollard

Course image Infectious Diseases 2019
Infectious Diseases

14 June 2019

Talks

More rational treatment of sepsis
Professor Martin Llewelyn

Update on CMV: What's new in diagnosis, treatment and prevention
Professor Paul Griffiths

Biologic agents
Professor Gerry Davies

Cellulitis: How can we do better?
Dr Rebecca Sutherland

Extra talk
Dengue: current challenges and opportunities

Professor Bridget Wills

Course image Medical Trainees' Conference 2023: On Call Conundrums
Medical Trainees' Conference

03 February 2023

Talks

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

Course image Medical Trainees' Conference 2022: Top Tips for the On-Call Medic
Medical Trainees' Conference

21 January 2022

Talks

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

Course image Medical Trainees' Conference 2020: The On-call Handbook
Medical Trainees' Conference

31 January 2020

Talks

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

Course image The Public's Health after Covid: Science and Social Justice
Public Health / Global Health

14 April 2021

Talks

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

Course image Respiratory Medicine 2023
Respiratory

 23 March 2023

Talks

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

Course image Changing times for tuberculosis: building on Sir John Crofton's legacy
Respiratory

08 April 2022

Talks

TB control in Scotland: a perspective from the past
Chris Holme

The impact of COVID-19 on TB control
Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman

What's new: progress in management of TB in children
Dr Liz Whittaker

What's new: progress in the treatment of drug susceptible TB
Professor Martin Boeree

What's new: progress in the treatment of drug resistant TB
Dr Francesca Conradie

The challenges of providing TB care: a specialist nurse perspective
Ceri McSparron

The challenges of providing TB care: a patient perspective
Susan Vaughan

Course image Respiratory Medicine 2020
Respiratory

04 March 2020

Talks

Management of pleural infections: past, present and future
Dr Rahul Bhatnagar

Mesothelioma: are we prepared for 2020?
Professor Kevin Blyth

High value patient care in COPD: a primary care perspective
Carol Stonham MBE

Home NIV in COPD: who and when?
Dr Patrick Murphy

Course image RCPE Grampian & Tayside: Updates in Clinical Medicine
UK Conferences

Broadcast 05 October 2021

Talks

“Winter is Coming”: Respiratory Infections in the Age of Covid-19 - Threats and Mitigations...
Mr John Mooney

Long Covid
Professor James Chalmers

Updates in Interventional Radiology for physicians
Dr Abdelaziz Marzoug

Course image RCPE Newcastle: Updates in Clinical Medicine
UK Conferences

Broadcast 16 September 2021

Talks

Antimicrobial resistance – the next infectious threat?
Dr Ali Robb

SuppoRTT – supporting doctors returning to training – who, how and why?
Dr Hilary Tedd

Course image RCPE Belfast: Updates in Clinical Medicine
UK Conferences

Broadcast 28 April 2021

Talks

High-Consequence Infectious Diseases
Dr Michael Hunter

Acute care at Home Service in Southern Trust
Dr Patricia McCaffrey

An update on Heart Failure
Dr Michael Connolly