Education Portal

• The origin of symptoms in heart failure- replacing the dogma with data | Dr Klaus Witte
• How to manage patients with difficult asthma | Dr Graham Burns
• Lung cancer - common presentations and management | Dr Philip Reid

• When to admit and when to discharge | Professor Nicholas L Mills
• Update on acute PE management | Dr James Tiernan
• Acute coronary syndromes | Dr Nicholas Boon

• The smoker's cough | Dr Peter Reid
• Cough | Professor Alyn H Morice
• COPD update | Professor William MacNee

• DVT: diagnosis, management and follow-up | Professor Campbell Tait
• The persistently swollen leg | Dr Colin Baines
• Lymphoedema - an overview | Mr Alex Munnoch
  

• The unconscious patient | Dr Achyut Valluri
• Hepatic encephalopathy - presentation, diagnosis and management | Professor Jane Metcalf
• The unconscious patient with high CO₂ | Dr Alistair Gascoigne

• Training for “Generation Me” | Dr Kim Walker
• Lessons from mortality reviews | Professor Allen Hutchinson
• How to develop resilient acute physicians: Investigate without prejudice | Mr Keith Conradi
• Getting it right first time (GIRFT) | Professor Tim Briggs
• Equality in health care | Dr Moira Connolly
• Hospital at Home | Dr Scott Ramsay
• Pushing the boundaries of ambulatory care | Dr Naomi Fox
• Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) | Dr Gillian Bain
• Toxicology - what is your poison? | Dr Euan Sandilands
• Treatment refusal: A psychiatrist's tips for physicians | Dr Stephen Potts
• Acute hyperglycaemia – a case based story | Dr Hannah Robertson

• Dementia friendly environments | Professor Emma Reynish and Dr Alison Dawson
• The arts and dementia | Professor Tom Dening
• All that's diabetes in the young is not Type 1 - insights into differential diagnosis | Professor Nihal Thomas
• Does white matter disease matter? | Professor Vincent Mok
• The role of apps for clinician and patient | Dr Rupert Page
• Alder Hey - Cognitive Hospital | Mr Iain Hennessey
• Cardiology: high sensitivity troponin | Dr Anne Scott
• Endocrine emergencies | Dr Stephanie Baldeweg
• Neurology: Moments of weakness | Professor John Paul Leach
• Respiratory update | Dr William McConnell

• Healthcare in the 4th industrial revolution | Professor Andrew Morris
• The determinants of disease – lessons from the UK Biobank | Professor Cathie Sudlow
• Stem cell and other cell therapies for future medicine | Professor Sue Kimber
• Extremes of human physiology – sorting out 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
• The superbug and antibiotic resistance | Dr Susan Hopkins
• Tackling the ageing demographic for the future | Professor Sarah Harper

• Infectious diseases | Dr Alisdair MacConnachie
• Heart failure | Dr John Baxter
• Respiratory medicine update | Dr Richard Stretton
• Frailty in the emergency department (ED) | Dr Charlotte Bates
• Frailty in the operating room | Mr Iain McCallum
  

• Legal highs and severe bacterial disease - an Edinburgh outbreak | Dr Donald Inverarity
• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): behaviour change interventions - can they make a difference? | Dr Timothy Rawson
• The State of the World's Antibiotics in 2018 | Professor Ramanan Laxminarayan
• HIV cure - fundamental need or research fantasy? | Professor John Frater
• Tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology and diagnosis | Dr Timothy Walker
  

• Medical haematology: breaking blood | Dr James Russell
• Parkinsonian puzzles | Dr Conor Maguire
• Radiology quiz | Dr George Tse
• Panel discussion - Improving flexibility in training | Dr Jennifer Lees, Dr Michael Farquhar, Professor Jane Mamelok, Professor Peter Trainer, Professor Derek Bell, Dr Marcus Lyall
• ¹⁸F-Fluoride PET-CT - a novel imaging assessment to predict bioprosthetic valve failure | Dr Timothy Cartlidge
• Haemoptysis | Dr Anne Jones
• Demystifying myoclonus | Dr Russell Hewett
• A near fatal cause of lower back pain | Dr Wan Shun Wong
• Gut feelings - an interesting differential for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) | Dr Teqwen Ecclestone
• Sepsis ?Source | Dr Ejaz Rahman
• Missed opportunities to diagnose syphilis prior to the development of sight-losing uveitis | Dr John Widdrington
  

• Symptoms and signs of neuro-otological disorders | Dr Diego Kaski
• Dizziness – acute, paroxysmal, positional | Mr Patrick Spielmann
• Neurological red flags in the acute medical receiving unit | Dr Esther Sammler
• Common dilemmas in the neuro-intensive care setting | Professor Simon Nagel
• Long term respiratory support in neuromuscular conditions | Dr Anthony Bateman
  

• Emerging infectious diseases | Professor David Heymann
• How to eliminate TB by 2050? | Professor Ajit Lalvani
• Public health challenges in Europe | Professor Martin McKee
• Migration and health | Dr Alexander van Tulleken
  
• Fiscal Policy- Alcohol minimum unit pricing: a tale of two countries | Professor Colin Drummond

• Malignant pleural effusions | Professor Najib Rahman
  
• Sarcoidosis | Dr Owen Dempsey
  
• Drugs for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis | Dr Simon Hart
  
• Pulmonary-renal disorders | Dr Dana Kidder
  
• Respiratory failure in COPD – when and when not to ventilate | Professor John Kinsella
  

• Individualising new treatments | Dr Andrew Menzies-Gow
• Non asthma symptoms in a severe asthma clinic | Dr Robert Niven
• Therapeutic bronchoscopy | Professor Pallav Shah
• The sleepy driver | Dr Kristine Harrison
• Bronchiectasis | Professor James Chalmers
  

• Breathlessness - heart, lungs or neither | Dr Luke Howard
  
• Sub-massive pulmonary embolism (PE) | Professor David Kiely
  
• Interstitial lung disease (ILD): selecting patients for new treatments | Dr Nik Hirani
  
• Lung cancer: targeting the gene | Professor Sam Janes
  
• Inhaled therapies in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): does one size fit all? | Professor Claus Franz Vogelmeier
  

• Case: Lung cysts: what is the cause? | Dr J Dixon J, Dr DA Price, Dr I Forrest
• Self-assessment
• Completion Certificate

• Bronchiectasis
• Occupational lung disease
• Cystic fibrosis (CF)
• Interstitial lung disease (ILD) - Quiz
• Breathlessness - Case

Self-assessment questions

• 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