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: 

 

Meeting co-ordinator:                      Mrs Chris Bloomer                     christine.bloomer@nhs.net

 

Meeting organisers:                          Dr Kate Evans                                 kate.evans@nhs.net                                                                                                                                                                     Dr Jamie Read                                james.read3@nhs.net

                                                           Dr Jamie Fulton                           jamiefulton@nhs.net