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

Registration opening soon

Friday

22 January

2021

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Overview

Clinical Lessons - Call for Abstracts

Abstracts are invited from Collegiate Members, Associates & Medical Students and Foundation Year Members of any of the UK Royal Colleges for the Clinical Lessons sessions at our symposium planned for January 2021. A prize will be awarded for the best Collegiate Member/Associate presentation and also a prize for the best Student/Foundation Year Member presentation. Those who have been chosen to present will deliver their talk virtually. Cases should be relevant to a general medical audience and should carry a clear lesson.

Abstracts should be submitted to trainees@rcpe.ac.uk NO LATER THAN 9am GMT ON Monday 30 November 2020.

Submission Information - Clinical Lessons

Sir John Halliday Croom Medal Lectureship - Call for Applications

Applications are invited from Collegiate Members (but not Fellows) of any UK Royal College of Physicians, resident in the United Kingdom, who wish to compete for the 47th Croom Lectureship. The lecture will be delivered virtually by the successful candidate on Friday 22 January 2021.

Submission Information - Croom Medal

The deadline to submit your application is 9am, Monday 30 November 2020.

Programme

Friday 22 January 2021

09.00	Registration and Coffee
09.25	Welcome and Introductory Remarks by President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Session 1 - A morning in the outpatient clinic

Chair: Chair details tbc

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 Speaker details 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

Session 2

Chair: Chair details tbc

11.30

KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: 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: President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Speaker details tbc

13.00

Lunch

Session 3 - An afternoon on the wards

Chair: Chair details tbc

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 Speaker details tbc Acute heart failure following acute coronary syndrome Ventricular arrhythmias in acute coronary syndrome *Bradycardia: emergency management
15.15	Coffee / tea

Session 4 - Clinical Lessons & Journal Prize Lecture

Chair: Chair details tbc

15.40	Talk title Speaker details
15.50	Talk title Speaker details
16.00	Talk title Speaker details
16.10	The RCPE College Journal Prize, Sponsored by the Senior Fellows' Club Chair: Chair tbc Speaker details tbc
16.25	Presentation of prizes & close

Venue:

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

Event Coordinator

Stephanie Hough

Telephone

+ 44 (0)131 247 3687

Email

S.Hough@rcpe.ac.uk