Education Portal

Management of first seizure
Professor Ley Sander

Acute ophthalmic emergencies
Mr Declan Flanagan

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

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

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

Physical Health in People with Psychosis - what to look out for
Dr Fiona Gaughran

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

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

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

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

• A patient experience | Mr Mark Hudson
• Assessment and management of delirium: key points from the 2019 SIGN Guidelines | Professor Alasdair MacLullich
• Real-world implementation of better delirium care | Professor James Rudolph
• Care of the highly agitated patient with delirium - a case based approach | Dr Gillian Scott
• Medico-legal aspects of delirium: avoiding the major pitfalls | Dr Alan Duncan
• Delirium education in healthcare settings: how to make it effective | Dr Andy Teodorczuk
• Understanding distressed behaviour in delirium: video-based case discussion | Nicola Wood
• Managing risk of falls in patients with delirium | Dr Hazel Miller
• When delirium persists, what should we do? | Dr Roanna Hall and Dr Keri Jamieson
  
• Question and answer session | Expert Panel

• Delirium lookalikes you need to know about | Dr Karin Neufeld
• Case 1: Delirium versus terminal restlessness | Professor Meera Agar
• Case 2: A diagnostic challenge | Dr Adam Al-Diwani
• Case 3: Severe, intractable agitation in intensive care unit (ICU) delirium | Dr Babar Khan
• Case 4: Delirium superimposed on dementia (DSD)? | Dr Alessandro Morandi
• A patient experience | Ms Alexandra Adams
• A carer experience | Dr Julie Lustig
• A new digital and quality improvement programme to improve delirium care | Dr Emma Vardy
• Basic science | Dr Colm Cunningham
• Applying systematic review methodology: identifying research gaps, refining future trials | Dr Esther Oh
• Definition and assessment of inattention: insights from psychological research | Dr Zoë Tieges
• Delirium and data science - endophenotype identification, classification, prediction, enrichment | Dr Robert Stevens
• Origins of psychotic features | Dr Edwin van Dellen
• Workshop B: Assessment and management of distress in delirium | Dr Jude Partridge and Ms Ffion Pritchard
• Workshop H: The wicked problem of delirium education: aligning medical education research to practice | Dr Andy Teodorczuk (and Professor Jan Illing)

• What's new in paediatric delirium? | Dr Heidi Smith
• Clinical psychological interventions in the intensive care unit (ICU) | Dr Dorothy Wade
• Delirium in primary care: development and experience of new pathway | Dr Lorna Dunlop
• Cognition care in the Australian National Standards (2nd ed) | Dr Julie Lustig
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) 2019 Guidelines on Delirium> | Ms Daisy Sandeman
• New findings from the Delirium and Population Health Informatics Cohort (DELPHIC) Study | Dr Daniel Davis
• Update on the German National Delirium Care Programme | Dr Stefan Kreisel
• Agency for the Health Quality and Research (AHRQ) commissioned systematic review on using antipsychotics for delirium 2019 | Dr Esther Oh
• The electroencephalogram (EEG) in delirium: where are we now in clinical practice and research? | Professor Arjen Slooter
• Quality improvement (QI) in healthcare: what is it and why do we do it? | Ms Carol Andrews
• Improving the quality of sleep in the intensive care unit (ICU) | Dr Biren Kamdar
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound: implementing a comprehensive delirium care program at a university hospital | Dr Vanja Douglas
• Delirium in hospice care: quality improvement (QI) projects | Dr Juliet Spiller
• Multi-disciplinary pathway for managing delirium: Quality improvement (QI) initiative at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan | Dr Shireen Najam

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

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

Stroke treatment
Dr Tracey Baird

Management of myasthenia gravis
Dr Maria Farrugia

Dementia: Novel biomarkers, neuroimaging and treatments
Professor Craig Ritchie

Gene targeting therapies for neurological disorders
Professor Sarah Tabrizi

Epilepsy treatments - an update
Professor Matthew Walker

Autoimmune encephalitis
Professor Sarosh Irani

The UK Excellence Network and our new Parkinson's Strategy
Katherine Crawford

Sleep and PD
Dr Ian Morrison

Psychiatry and psychosis of PD
Dr Dichelle Wong

Mental Health Hub
Dr Jennifer Foley

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) update
Dr Vicky Marshall

Exercise and PD
Julie Jones, Janet Kerr and Alison Williams

Award-winning exercise project
Lois Rosenthal and Aimi McGeough

Using existing systems to help administer/prescribe PD medications
Nic Bryden

First Steps
Dave Thomson

Medications management project at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Dr Zoe Muir

Comprehensive genetic testing for PD in NHS Scotland
Dr Esther Sammler

Experience of Parkinson's Kinetigraph in NHS Fife
Dr Marie-Claire Grounds

UK Parkinson’s Audit - Next steps
Dr Anne-Louise Cunnington

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

Case study 1: Lithium-induced diabetes insipidus
Dr Craig Thurtell

Capacity, treating medical problems in patients with mental illness
Dr Roger Smyth

Supporting patients who are challenging detention through a legal representative: a medico-legal perspective
Dr John Holden

Panel Discussion for Case study 1

Case Study 2: Clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in a patient with significant traumatic brain injury and limited awareness
Dr Kevin Conroy

Neuro-rehabilitation
Sarah Smith

Ethics
Dr Antonia Karus-McElvogue

Panel discussion for Case Study 2