Year 3 Course lead: Professor Karim Meeran

Background to Clinical Specialities (28 November - 16 December 2011)
 

All sessions will be in the Drewe lecture theatre, 1st floor, Reynolds Building, Charing Cross campus.

Week 1 Week 3

WEEK 2 - links below are PowerPoint presentations unless otherwise indicated:
Title Lecturer
Monday 5 December
Multisystem diseases that you should know about  
Patient: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Dr Jeremy Levy
Individualising drug management in chronic disease Dr Jeremy Levy
SLE and renal disease Dr Jeremy Levy
Patient: Severe hypertension Professor Karim Meeran
New diabetic drugs Professor Karim Meeran
Type 2 diabetes and its complications Professor Karim Meeran
When to start dialysis Professor Edwina Brown
Elderly on dialysis: conservative care Professor Edwina Brown
Chronic disease pathway: role of active and supportive treatment Professor Edwina Brown
Patient: Rheumatoid arthritis Dr Sonya Abraham
Tuesday 6 December
Nuts and bolts of neuro cognitive disorders  
Dementia – definitions and classifications Dr Richard Perry
Cognitive assessment and investigation in dementia Dr Richard Perry
Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms in Dementia Dr Claudia Wald
Current and future pharmacological treatments in dementia Dr Richard Perry
Dementia and Delirium Dr Paul Edison
Capacity and medico-legal issues in dementia Dr Richard Perry
Patient and carer support in dementia Dr Debbie Hawkins
The Mental Capacity Act [Word] The Harry Partnership, Dr Wing May Kong, Dr Adrian Raby
Medical Law Quiz Dr Wing May Kong, Dr Adrian Raby
Wednesday 7 December

Substance misuse introduction [pdf]

 Dr Chris Hilton
Alcohol and the GI patient (with patient interview) Dr Andrew Thillainayagam
Alcohol, substance misuse and the heart [pdf] Dr John Baksi
Alcohol, substance misuse and the brain [pdf] Dr Rick Adams
Recreational drug misuse: issues for the cardiologist - published by group.bmj.com
Thursday 8 December
Happy families Dr Paul Booton
Somatisation Dr Amrit Sachar
Investigating GI disease Dr Tim Orchard
Friday 9 December
Quality of Life and Joint Disease Professor Justin Cobb
Morphology and pathomorphology of hips and knees  
Quality of life, function and outcome measures in hip and knee disease  
Case Mr J M-G, shrapnel injury in afganistan, bad knee injury  
Joint replacement options in 2011  
Technology in surgery: the best surgeon in year two  
Career progression in medicine in general and orthopaedics in particular  
Neurosciences  
Introduction Dr Peter Bain
Dizziness (Case A) Mr Barry Seamungal
Peripheral neuropathy (Case B) Dr Wojtek Rakowicz
Epilepsy (Case C) Dr Michael Johnson
Head injury (Case D) Mr Dipankar Nandi
Tremor (Case E) Dr Peter Bain
End of session discussion  

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