Plymouth Acute medicine conference for G(I)M trainees
Category: Medicine - Acute and GIM Training Days
Date: May 18th 2018 8:30am until 5:15pm
Location: Plymouth Postgraduate Medical Centre,
10th Plymouth
Acute Medicine Conference
18th May 2018.
Plymouth Postgraduate Medical Centre,
Derriford Hospital, Plymouth.
6 External Clinical CPD points requested (RCPS)
08:30 Registration and refreshments.
09:25 Introduction and welcome - Dr Jamie Read
1st Session: coping with pressure
Chair: Dr Jamie Read, Chief Registrar, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
09:30 Cardiorenal failure – the cardiac perspective
Dr Girish Viswanathan Consultant Cardiologist,
10:00 Cardiac failure – advanced drugs, devices and techniques
?Dr Luisa Chicote-Hughes Consultant Cardiologist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
10:30 Pleural disease
Dr John Corcoran, Consultant Physician, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
11:00 Refreshments
2nd Session: Getting it right
Chair: Dr John Andrews, Consultant Physician, Torbay Hospital, Torquay
11:30 Pain – acute management and interventional techniques
Dr Dave Beard, Consultant in Pain Management, North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple
12:00 Managing multimorbidity
Dr Paul Hancock, Consultant Physician, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
12.30 Crystal balls - prognostication
Dr Sam Waddy, Consultant Intensivist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
13:00 Lunch
3rd Session Imaging
Chair Dr Jamie Read, Chief Registrar, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
14:00 Thoracic ultrasound
Dr Lindsey Taylor, Consultant in Acute Medicine and Intensive Care, Treliske Hospital, Truro
14:25 AIM TTE
Dr Colin Bigham, Consultant in Intensive Care, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
14:50 IR – no frontier is final
Dr Nelo Gafoor, Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
15:15 Refreshments
4th Session Bleeding obvious
Chair Dr Kate Evans, Consultant Physician in Endocrinology and Diabetes.
15:35 Antithrombotic management – the new and the used
Dr Sam Burrows, Consultant Haematologist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
16:05 Haemato-oncology – Hedgehogs, fab mabs, nibs ….. onomatophobia
Dr David Lewis, Consultant Haematologist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
16:35 Cognitive biases – performance awareness, avoiding the drop
Dr Kate Denning, Consultant in Medical Education
17:15 Closure: Dr Jamie Read.
We are extremely grateful to the following sponsors for their support and generosity as they are crucial in enabling existence and delivery of this conference:
