UCL Medical Emergencies Course For Trainee Doctors
Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th July - Registration Fee - £60.00
A copy of the outline programme is attached and further details can be found on the meeting website -
Registration fee includes:
• Access to the virtual course on 3rd & 4th July to watch the presentations and put questions to the speakers
• Post-course access to the video content (pre-registered delegates only). The content will be available from approximately 2 weeks after the course until the end of October 2021.
• CPD certificate (provided by email to those who attend the course)
• Opportunity to self-certify for CPD for watching the course content later (one CPD credit per hour).
Foundation programme - May 2021 update
Welcome to your May 2021 update about the Foundation e-learning programme.
The Foundation e-learning programme has been developed specifically for Foundation doctors by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in partnership with Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) and is approved by UKFPO.
Do you need to complete parts of the curriculum on your e-portfolio which you do not cover in day-to-day practice? If so, why not try some of our free e-learning mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum.
The sessions in the e-LfH Foundation e-learning programme include:
Professional capability: 7
Works effectively as a team member:
• Good Handover Practice
• Primary, Secondary Care Interface
• Ward and Therapy Services
• Ward and Social Services
• Effective Referrals to Other Clinical Teams
• Team Working and Patient Safety
You can sign in to the e-learning with your login supplied by e-LfH at any time during your foundation training.
HORUS and TURAS link to e-LfH e-learning sessions from the FP Curriculum and are therefore accessible to all trainees, making it quicker and easy to access the appropriate session linked to the curriculum.
New Dysphagia elearning resources are available
Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) worked in partnership with Health Education England, Specialist Pharmacy Service, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, National Institute for Health Research Devices for Dignity MedTech Co-operative and clinical experts to develop a new e-learning session on Dysphagia and Medicines for carers and care home staff. There are also new assessments on existing sessions for carers and caterers in social care settings.
Dysphagia, which is difficulty chewing and/or swallowing food and drinks, has serious implications for a person’s health and wellbeing, with increased likelihood of chest infections, malnutrition, dehydration, choking incidents and hospitalisations. Patients with dysphagia may be unable to swallow their medicines safely.
About the Dysphagia elearning programme
The Dysphagia elearning programme has been designed to support knowledge and understanding of the management of dysphagia, specifically in the context of a care home environment. However, the sessions will also be useful to those supporting people with dysphagia in other environments, including hospital and community settings.
Care home workers, including managers, nurses, care workers, catering staff and the wider NHS team, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, speech and language therapists, dietitians, and others working with patients with dysphagia will find this resource helpful.
About the elearning
The new session focuses on Dysphagia and Medicines. It describes how patients with swallowing difficulties may need changes to their medicines in order to take them safely, and the actions that carers and care home staff need to take.
The session includes sections on who to contact, what information to collect and describes the different ways patients may be advised to take medicines; including when and how to crush tablets or open capsules and when liquid medicines might be preferred. It includes advice on giving medicines with soft food or thickened fluids.
In response to feedback on existing sessions, dysphagia assessments have been added for health and care workers and for catering staff. The assessments aim to help learners to use evidence as part of achieving dysphagia competencies, as outlined in the Eating Drinking and Swallowing Competency Framework.
In addition to the new elearning session, existing sessions in the Dysphagia elearning programme includes:
• essentials
• food
• quality and safety
• training and resources
• workforce
The elearning resources are free for the NHS workforce, carers, catering staff and AHPs, and they have been designed to be easy to use.
To learn more about the new elearning sessions, assessments, or the existing sessions, please visit the Dysphagia programme page.
Volunteer opportunities in Diagnostic imaging
Dear Trainees,
Please see below volunteer opportunities in diagnostic imaging in Uganda which is part of a HEE pilot project which might appeal to trainees with experience in diagnostic imaging . There are opportunities for long and short term volunteering overseas and “virtual” UK based volunteering. The link to the website and more information can be found below .
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/global-engagement/diagnostic-imaging-project-volunteers