Medical Trainees Online Symposium: A day in the life of a medical trainee

Friday

22 January

2021

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Overview

Our 2021 annual Medical Trainee Conference, organised by the Trainees & Members' Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, aims to provide an interactive diverse programme, covering both outpatient and inpatient clinical encounters relevant for medical trainees. It will be delivered entirely online. Our programme gives a snapshot of a day in the life of a medical trainee. We will start the day with a morning covering diverse topics from outpatient clinics, such chronic breathlessness in a respiratory clinic, the nuances of neurology examination and appropriate assessment of anaemia. In the afternoon, we move to discussing topics from the acute hospital setting environment, such as critical care management, cardiology emergencies in the coronary care unit and frailty assessment at the front door.

This varied and engaging programme also includes our 47th Sir John Halliday Croom Lecture and our Keynote Lecture. Our Keynote lecture, delivered by Professor Pat Croskerry (Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Critical Thinking Program within the Division of Medical Education, Dalhousie University, Canada) will outline the fascinating psychology of clinical decisions, cognitive bias and the factors that influence medical decision making. The programme will conclude with our popular Clinical Lessons session.

All grades of medical, nursing, scientific staff, allied health professionals and medical students are most welcome. The event is free to attend for Collegiate, Associate, Foundation Members and Medical Students of the RCPE

Dr Ailsa Oswald and Dr Anda Bularga

Chair/MTC Organising Committee

Programme

Friday 22 January 2021

09.00	Registration, Coffee and virtual poster viewing
09.25	Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Professor Angela Thomas, Acting President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh & Dr Addy McLeod, Chair, RCPE Trainees and Members' Committee

Session 1 - A morning in the outpatient clinic

Chair: Dr Charlotte Dewdney, RCPE Trainees and Members' Committee

09.30	Respiratory: Assessing the breathless clinic patient Dr Tom Fardon, Consultant Physician in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee Chronic asthma management Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – an update on inhaled therapy *Symptom management and palliative care in chronic lung disease
10.00	Neurology Clinical Cases: Clinical examination as an important piece of the puzzle Dr Ingrid Hoeritzauer, Neurology Registrar and Honorary Clinical Fellow, University of Edinburgh Gait disturbance Tremors *Involuntary Movements
10.30	Looking affy peely-wally? - the diagnostic approach to anaemia and its management Dr Sudhir Tauro, Consultant in Haematology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee Aetiological considerations Nuances of investigations *Treatment
11.00	Coffee / tea and virtual poster viewing

Session 2

Chair: Dr Ailsa Oswald, RCPE Trainees and Members' Committee

11.30

KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: Professor Angela Thomas, Acting President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Clinical decisions: thinking fast and slow
Professor Pat Croskerry, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie Unviersity, Canada
*Type 1 and type 2 thinking and clinical decision *cognitive bias *how to make the best of behavioural psychology when dealing with clinical decisions

12.15

47th CROOM LECTURE
Chair: Professor Angela Thomas, Acting President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: More than just an incidental finding?
Dr Una Clancy, Chief Scientist Office Clinical Research Fellow/Honorary Stroke Registrar NHS Lothian/ST5 Geriatric Medicine/GIM Southeast Scotland, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh

13.00

Lunch and virtual poster viewing

Session 3 - An afternoon on the wards

Chair: Dr Gavin Chapman, RCPE Trainees and Members' Committee

13.45	Intensive Care Unit: Critical care for medical trainees Dr John Smith, Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness The deteriorating patient Airway management *Inotropic support – when and what to use?
14.15	Frailty at the front door Dr Rowan Wallace, Consultant Geriatrician, NHS Ayrshire & Arran Defining Frailty Frailty service: aims and outcomes Falls – acute assessment Delirium
14.45	Cardiology: An afternoon in the Coronary Care Unit Dr Caroline Scally, Consultant Cardiologist, NHS Lothian Acute heart failure following acute coronary syndrome Ventricular arrhythmias in acute coronary syndrome *Bradycardia: emergency management
15.15	Coffee / tea and virtual poster viewing

Session 4 - Clinical Lessons & Journal Prize Lecture

Chair: Dr Anda Bularga, RCPE Trainees and Members' Committee

15.40	“It’s always COVID”: Cognitive bias in the COVID-19 pandemic Dr Ben Thompson, Junior Clinical Fellow and Dr Iyare Nehikhare, Core Medical Trainee, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
15.50	A case of disproportionate hypoxia Dr Sam Sutton, Junior Clinical Fellow in Critical Care Medicine, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
16.00	Vague Symptoms: When they shouldn’t be dismissed Dr Eleanor Gartside, Senior Clinical Fellow, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool
16.10	The RCPE College Journal Prize, Sponsored by the Senior Fellows' Club Chair: Dr Kirsty Muirhead, President, Senior Fellows' Club Distinct T-cell immunophenotypic signature in a subset of sarcoidosis patients with arthritis Dr Avinash Jain, Senior Resident* & Mr Harshit Singh, PhD Student, Department of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India *presenter
16.25	Presentation of prizes & close

Fees

Online booking for this event closes on Wednesday 20 January 2021 but places may still be available after that date - please contact the Education Co-ordinator for further information.

An early bird discount applies until Monday 4 January 2021.

Registration fees
	Early Bird fee until Monday 4 January 2021 (for online half day)	Early Bird fee until Monday 4 January 2021 (for online full day)	Fee from Tuesday 5 January 2021 (for online half day)	Fee from Tuesday 5 January 2021 (for online full day)
Standard fee	£69	£139	£79	£149
RCPE Fellow in UK or other high income country	£39	£79	£49	£89
RCPE Collegiate / Associate / Student or Foundation Member	£0	£0	£0	£0
Nurse / AHP / Pharmacist / Postgraduate student/ RCPE Fellow in upper-middle income country	£35	£69	£45	£79
RCPE Fellow in low or lower-middle income country	£0	£0	£0	£0
Medical student (note student membership is free and includes free access to this event, and include link to join the college)	£9	£9	£15	£15

Long term / other leave – Fellows and Members, please contact the Event Co-ordinator as some discretion may be available.

Collegiate and Associate Members of the RCPE in clinical research posts may be eligible for funding - please contact the Event Co-ordinator for further information.

Trainees – Scotland Deanery medical specialty trainees can attend any number of eligible symposia for a one-off payment from their study leave budget (block grant scheme).

Invoices

If you wish us to invoice an employer/organisation, please contact the Event Coordinator. Payment via invoice is not available for online booking.

Free places

Unpaid post – Nil, if confirmation of status provided – please contact the Event Co-ordinator.

Refugee doctors – free places are available to refugee doctors who are Associate Members of the College. Associate Membership for refugee doctors is available free of charge. Please visit our website for instructions on how to join, and then apply to the Event Co-ordinator for your free place.

Venue:

RCPE, Online, 11 Queen Street, Online, EH2 1JQ

Credits

5

Activity Code

133737

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Event Coordinator

Stephanie Hough

Telephone

+ 44 (0)131 247 3687

Email

S.Hough@rcpe.ac.uk