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Clinical topics
Allergy and Immunology
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Allergy
- Allergy and COVID-19
- Common atopic presentations in primary care
- Managing uncertainty in autoimmunity
- Practical aspects of allergy diagnosis
- The GP with an extended role in allergy
- EKU Hot Topic: Defining the window of opportunity and target populations to prevent peanut allergy
- EKU Hot Topic: Oseltamivir plus usual care versus usual care for influenza-like illness in primary care
Cardiovascular Health
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Antiphospholipid syndrome
- Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
- Heart Failure with reduced ejection fraction - the role of ECGs and cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT)
- Kawasaki Disease
- Listen, Suspect, Refer: A guide to detecting heart valve disease
- Management of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in General Practice
- Primary care aspects of heart failure - Podcast
- Reducing cardiovascular risk in primary care
- Syncope
- Type 2 diabetes and heart failure
- EKU2024.2: Transient loss of consciousness ('blackouts') in over 16s
- EKU2024.1: Cardiovascular disease: risk assessment, reduction & lipid modification
- EKU2021.3: Atrial fibrillation: diagnosis and management
- EKU2020.1: Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management
- EKU2019.1: Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management
- EKU2019.1: Diagnosis and management of venous leg ulcers
- EKU2018.3: Management of stable angina
- EKU2018.1: Risk estimation and the prevention of cardiovascular disease
- EKU18: Management of chronic heart failure
- EKU Hot Topic: Antidepressants and risk of postural hypotension
- EKU Podcast: Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment
- EKU Hot Topic: Effects of intensive BP treatment on orthostatic hypertension
- EKU Hot Topic: Effect of SGLT2 inhibitors on heart failure outcomes and cardiovascular death across the cardiometabolic disease spectrum
- EKU Hot Topic: Evening versus morning dosing regimen drug therapy for hypertension
- EKU Hot Topic: Cumulative incidence of thiazide-induced hyponatremia
- EKU Hot Topic: Effect of dietary sodium on blood pressure
- EKU Hot Topic: Effects of cuff size on the accuracy of blood pressure readings
- EKU Hot Topic: Exercise training and resting blood pressure
- EKU Hot Topic: Orthostatic tachycardia after COVID-19
- EKU Hot Topic: Natriuretic peptide testing and heart failure diagnosis in primary care
- EKU Podcast: Atrial fibrillation - diagnosis and management
- EKU Hot Topic: Allopurinol versus usual care in UK patients with ischaemic heart disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Diagnosing hypertension in primary care: the importance of night-time blood pressure assessment
- EKU Hot Topic: Whom to treat for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Healthcare professional-led interventions on lifestyle modifications for hypertensive patients
- EKU Hot Topic: Home and Online Management and Evaluation of Blood Pressure (HOME BP) using a digital intervention in poorly controlled hypertension
- EKU Podcast: Hypertension in adults
- EKU Hot Topic: Association of pulse rate with outcomes in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- EKU Hot Topic: Bedtime hypertension treatment improves cardiovascular risk reduction
- EKU Hot Topic: Cardiovascular, mortality, and kidney outcomes with GLP-1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes
- EKU Hot Topic: The rise and fall of aspirin in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular events and mortality in old and very old adults with and without type 2 diabetes
- EKU Hot Topic: Primary care REFerral for EchocaRdiogram (REFER) in heart failure
- EKU Hot Topic: Indirect blood pressure measurement for the diagnosis of hypertension in patients with obesity
- EKU Hot Topic: Telehealth for patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Lifetime perspectives on primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Nurse-led optimisation of medications in heart failure
- EKU Hot Topic: Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke
- EKU Screencast: Chronic heart failure in adults
Ear, Nose and Throat, Speech and Hearing
EKU Topic:
- EKU2021.3: Otitis externa
- EKU2020.3: Tinnitus: assessment and management
- EKU2019.1: Hearing loss in adults: assessment and management
- EKU Hot Topic: Clinical effectiveness of septoplasty versus medical management for nasal airways obstruction
- EKU Hot Topic: Treatment failure and adverse events after amoxicillin-clavulanate vs amoxicillin for paediatric acute sinusitis
- EKU Hot Topic: Online vestibular rehabilitation for chronic vestibular syndrome
- EKU Hot Topic: Use of antibiotics for acute sore throat and tonsillitis in primary care
- EKU Screencast: Hearing loss in adults - assessment and management
- EKU Hot Topic: Effect of oral dexamethasone without immediate antibiotics vs placebo on acute sore throat in adults
Gastroenterology
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Anal Incontinence in women with previous childbirth injury
- Bladder and bowel problems in children
- Colorectal Cancer
- Diagnosis and management of coeliac disease and its immunological comorbidities
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a case-based approach to management
- Hepatitis B&C
- Hepatitis C: Enhancing Prevention, Testing and Care
- Holistic care for patients with inflammatory bowel disease
- IBS Pathway
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Managing Infectious Diarrhoea
- Microbiome
- Pancreatic Cancer: Early Diagnosis in General Practice
- EKU2024.2: Diagnosis and management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- EKU2022.1: Management of irritable bowel syndrome
- EKU2021.2: Advances in the diagnosis and management of GORD
- EKU2020.2: Diverticular disease: diagnosis and management
- EKU2019.3: Diagnosis and management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding
- EKU2019.3: Management of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
- EKU2017.1: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- EKU16: Diagnosis and management of IBS in adults
- EKU Hot Topic: Faecal calprotectin in primary care: is its current use supported by the evidence?
- EKU Podcast: Faecal immunochemical testing
- EKU Hot Topic: Effectiveness of conservative management versus laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the prevention of recurrent symptoms and complications in adults with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstone disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Amitriptyline at low-dose and titrated for irritable bowel syndrome as second-line treatment in primary care
- EKU Podcast: Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- EKU Hot Topic: The role of faecal calprotectin in the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Diagnoses after newly-recorded abdominal pain in primary care
- EKU Podcast: Diagnosis and management of gastroesophageal reflux disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to treat persistent throat symptoms
- EKU Podcast: Diverticular disease - diagnosis and management
- EKU Hot Topic: Effectiveness of management strategies for uninvestigated dyspepsia
- EKU Podcast: Ulcerative colitis & Crohn's disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Effect of antidepressants and psychological therapies in irritable bowel syndrome
- EKU Podcast: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- EKU Screencast: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- EKU Screencast: Diagnosis and management of irritable bowel syndrome in primary care
Genomic Medicine
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
Haematology
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Abortion in primary care
- Antiphospholipid syndrome
- Diagnosis and management of Leukaemia
- Genetic Haemochromatosis
- Lymphoma in primary care
- Myeloma
- EKU2024.3: Vitamin B12 deficiency in over 16s: diagnosis and management
- EKU2024.1: Managing raised ferritin in primary care
- EKU2022.2: Management of iron deficiency anaemia in adults
- EKU2020.3: Pernicious anaemia
- EKU2020.3: Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing
- EKU2020.1: Investigating thrombocytosis
- EKU2018.3: Management of abnormal liver blood tests
- EKU2017.1: Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management
- EKU Hot Topic: Anaemia, ethnicity, and cancer incidence
- EKU Hot Topic: Bleeding risks with non–vitamin K oral anticoagulants versus single antiplatelet therapy
- EKU Hot Topic: Why test study: a UK-wide audit using the Primary Care Academic CollaboraTive to explore the reasons for primary care testing
- EKU Podcast: Venous thromboembolic diseases
- EKU Podcast: Investigating thrombocytosis
- EKU Hot Topic: Clinical relevance of thrombocytosis in primary care
- EKU Podcast: Management of abnormal liver blood tests
- EKU Screencast: Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management
Infectious Disease & Travel Health
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Annual influenza vaccination
- Aspergillus
- Hepatitis B&C
- Hepatitis C: Enhancing Prevention, Testing and Care
- Long term effects of COVID-19 and Post-COVID-19 syndrome
- Lyme Disease
- Measles
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
- Shingles
- Therapeutics for people with acute COVID-19 at high risk of serious illness
- Tuberculosis in General Practice
- EKU2021.1: Management of post-acute COVID-19 in primary care
- EKU2020.3: Cellulitis and leg ulcers: diagnosing and treating infection
- EKU Hot Topic: Inhaled budesonide for COVID-19 in people at high risk of complications in the community in the UK (PRINCIPLE)
- EKU Hot Topic: Doxycycline for community treatment of suspected COVID-19 in people at high risk of adverse outcomes in the UK (PRINCIPLE)
- EKU Hot Topic: Effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines on COVID-19 related symptoms, hospital admissions, and mortality in older adults in England
- EKU Hot Topic: Zika virus infection: guidance for primary care
Kidney and Urology
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Acute kidney injury (AKI) in primary care
- Bladder and bowel problems in children
- Chronic kidney disease (CKD): an essential guide for GPs
- Common infections in primary care - management of urinary tract infections and sinusitis
- Nocturia
- Prostate Cancer: Early Diagnosis in General Practice
- Urinary Tract Infections: A Primary Care Puzzle
- EKU2020.1: Urinary tract infection: diagnostic tools for primary care
- EKU2019.2: Urinary tract infection and Acute Pyelonephritis
- EKU Hot Topic: Pre-diagnostic prescription patterns in bladder and renal cancer
- EKU Hot Topic: Alternative to prophylactic antibiotics for the treatment of recurrent urinary tract infections in women
- EKU Hot Topic: Association of metformin use with risk of lactic acidosis across the range of kidney function
- EKU Hot Topic: Symptomatic treatment of uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections in the ambulatory
- EKU Hot Topic: Association between symptoms and bladder or renal tract cancer in primary care
Mental Health
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Autistic Spectrum Conditions
- Consultation with young people with mental health problems: a practical guide
- Eating Disorder
- Insomnia
- Loneliness, isolation and multimorbidity – the impact of COVID-19
- Mental health in the context of COVID-19
- Mental ill health and burnout
- Mental health and suicide prevention
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder during and after lockdown
- Traumatic events in primary care
- Schizophrenia and Tardive Dyskinesia
- Suicide Prevention
- Supporting mental health in low-income communities: learning from the DeSTRESS Project
- Veterans' Health
- EKU2024.3: Bipolar Disorder: assessment and management
- EKU2024.2: Assessment, diagnosis, care and support for people with dementia and their carers
- EKU2024.2: Perinatal mental health conditions
- EKU2023.3: Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management in hospital and long-term care
- EKU2023.2: Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence
- EKU2019.2: Decision-making and mental capacity
- EKU2019.2: Post-traumatic stress disorder
- EKU2018.1: Eating disorders: recognition and treatment
- EKU2017.1: Dementia: supporting people with dementia and their carers
- EKU16: Classification, assessment, prevalence, effect and treatment of personality disorder
- EKU Hot Topic: Pharmacological treatment of anxiety in older adults
- EKU Hot Topic: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy versus treatment as usual after non-remission with NHS Talking Therapies high-intensity psychological therapy for depression
- EKU Podcast: Physical health in severe mental illness
- EKU Podcast: Bipolar disorder
- EKU Hot Topic: Incidence of antidepressant discontinuation symptoms
- EKU Hot Topic: Multiple adverse outcomes associated with antipsychotic use in people with dementia
- EKU Hot Topic: Effect of exercise for depression
- EKU Podcast: Self-harm
- EKU Podcast: Depression in adults
- EKU Hot Topic: Drug treatment for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia
- EKU Hot Topic: Continuity of GP care for patients with dementia: impact on prescribing and the health of patients
- EKU Hot Topic: Mirtazapine added to SSRIs or SNRIs for treatment resistant depression in primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Risk of relapse after antidepressant discontinuation in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder
- EKU Hot Topic: Consultation liaison in primary care for people with mental disorders
Metabolic Problems and Endocrinology
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Alkaptonuria – "Black Bone Disease"
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Adrenal insufficiency with a focus on Addison’s Disease
- Child and adolescent obesity
- Diabetes Medication Review & Optimisation
- Genetic Haemochromatosis
- Glycogen Storage Disease
- Management of obesity and overweight
- Men's Testosterone Deficiency
- Motivational Interviewing (MI) in weight management
- Non-diabetic Hyperglycaemia and the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme
- Polypharmacy
- Practicalities of obesity management
- Treatment Options in Obesity
- Type 2 diabetes and the updated NICE guidance
- Type 2 diabetes and the low GI diet
- EKU2024.1: Obesity: identification, assessment and management
- EKU2023.3: Diabetic foot problems: prevention and management
- EKU2023.3: Non-diabetic hyperglycaemia (pre-diabetes) and prevention of type 2 diabetes in people at high risk
- EKU2022.1: Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome and obesity hypoventilation syndrome
- EKU2021.3: Assessment and management of thyroid disease
- EKU2021.1: How to manage low testosterone level in men
- EKU2020.2: Investigating cortisol excess or deficiency
- EKU2020.1: Hyponatraemia in primary care
- EKU2019.1: New diagnosis of hyperthyroidism in primary care
- EKU18: Type 2 diabetes in adults: management
- EKU17: Diabetes in adults (type 1), children and young people (type 1 and 2
- EKU Podcast: The evolving role of GLP1-RA in obesity
- EKU Hot Topic: Discontinuing glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and body habitus and tirzepatide as compared with semaglutide for the treatment of obesity
- EKU Hot Topic: Impact of bodyweight loss on type 2 diabetes remission
- EKU Hot Topic: Efficacy and safety of once-daily oral semaglutide 25 mg and 50 mg compared with 14 mg in adults with type 2 diabetes (PIONEER PLUS)
- EKU Hot Topic: Glycaemia reduction in type 2 diabetes: glycaemic, microvascular and cardiovascular outcomes
- EKU Hot Topic: Comparison of amitriptyline supplemented with pregabalin, pregabalin supplemented with amitriptyline, and duloxetine supplemented with pregabalin for the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (OPTION-DM)
- EKU Hot Topic: Discussing weight loss opportunistically and effectively in family practice
- EKU Hot Topic: Once-weekly semaglutide in adults with overweight or obesity
- EKU Hot Topic: Subclinical thyroid dysfunction symptoms in older adults
- EKU Hot Topic: Association between levothyroxine treatment and thyroid-related symptoms among adults aged 80 years and older with subclinical hypothyroidism
- EKU Hot Topic: Oral semaglutide versus subcutaneous liraglutide and placebo in type 2 diabetes
- EKU Hot Topic: Inflammatory marker tests in primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Thyroid hormones treatment for subclinical hypothyroidism
- EKU Hot Topic:Durability of a primary care-led weight-management intervention for remission of type 2 diabetes
- EKU Hot Topic: Oral hypoglycemic agents added to insulin monotherapy for type 2 diabetes
- EKU Screencast: Type 2 diabetes in adults: management
- EKU Screencast: Diabetes in adults (type 1), children and young people (type 1 and 2)
Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Intellectual and Social Disability
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
EKU Topic:
- EKU2022.1: Gout
- EKU2018.3: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management
- EKU17: Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities
Neurology
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Acquired and Traumatic Brain Injury
- Alzheimer's Dementia
- Childhood epilepsy and infantile spasms
- Migraine
- Migraine and cluster headaches
- Motor Neurone Disease
- Motor Neurone Disease Advanced Care
- Multiple Sclerosis in General Practice
- Neuromuscular Conditions
- Post-polio Syndrome
- Red Flags for Motor Neurone Disease (screencast)
- Speech and Language Impairment in Children
- Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) and Seizure Safety
- EKU2023.3: Stroke
- EKU2021.2: The assessment of tremor
- EKU2021.2: Recognising and explaining functional neurological disorder
- EKU2021.1: Sudden-onset dizziness and vertigo
- EKU2020.1: Suspected neurological conditions: recognition and referral
- EKU2018.3: Pharmacological management of migraine
- EKU2018.1: Parkinson’s disease in adults
- EKU18: Motor neurone disease: assessment and management
- EKU17: Diagnosis and management of epilepsy in adults
- EKU16: Management of multiple sclerosis in primary and secondary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Effectiveness of low-dose amitriptyline and mirtazapine in patients with insomnia disorder with sleep maintenance problems
- EKU Hot Topic: Comparative effects of drug interventions for the acute management of migraine episodes in adults
- EKU Hot Topic: Combined physiotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy for functional movement disorders
- EKU Podcast: Onset dizziness and vertigo
- EKU Hot Topic: Effectiveness of the Epley manoeuvre in posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- EKU Hot Topic: Antiplatelet therapy with aspirin, clopidogrel, and dipyridamole versus clopidogrel alone or aspirin and dipyridamole in patients with acute cerebral ischaemia (TARDIS)
- EKU Podcast: Diagnosis and management of epilepsy in adults
- EKU Podcast: Management of multiple sclerosis in primary and secondary care
- One Day Essentials REWIND | Neurology
Respiratory Health
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eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Allergy
- Aspergillus
- Asthma: updates to diagnosis and treatment
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Common atopic presentations in primary care
- COPD and Nutrition
- Essentials of Smoking Cessation
- High quality & low carbon respiratory care
- Lung Cancer
- Lung cancer screencast
- Practical aspects of allergy diagnosis
- Sarcoidosis
- Tuberculosis in General Practice
- Use of Pulse Oximetry in care homes
EKU Topic:
- EKU2024.3: Tuberculosis
- EKU2024.1: Breathing difficulties after COVID-19: a guide for primary care
- EKU2019.2: COPD - diagnosis, management and antimicrobial prescribing
- EKU2018.2: Diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management
- EKU2018.2: Management of adult bronchiectasis
- EKU2017.3: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- EKU2017.2: Management of asthma
- EKU16: Diagnosis and management of community and hospital acquired pneumonia in adults
- EKU Hot Topic: Nasal sprays and behavioural interventions compared with usual care for acute respiratory illness in primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Efficacy of oral corticosteroids for acute preschool wheeze
- EKU Hot Topic: Eosinophil-guided oral prednisolone for COPD exacerbations in primary care in the UK
- EKU Hot Topic: Antibiotics for lower respiratory tract infection in children presenting in primary care in England (ARTIC PC)
- EKU Hot Topic: Prevalence, aetiologies and prognosis of the symptom cough in primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory infections
- EKU Hot Topic: Changes in the presenting symptoms of lung cancer from 2000–2017
- EKU Hot Topic: Prognostic value of first-recorded breathlessness for future chronic respiratory and heart disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Sensitivity of chest X-ray for detecting lung cancer in people presenting with symptoms
- EKU Hot Topic: Budesonide-formoterol reliever therapy versus maintenance budesonide plus terbutaline reliever therapy in adults with mild to moderate asthma (PRACTICAL)
- EKU Hot Topic: A randomised trial of e-Cigarettes versus nicotine-replacement therapy
- EKU Hot Topic: Bronchiectasis (non-cystic fibrosis), acute exacerbation: antimicrobial prescribing
- EKU Hot Topic: Effect of oral prednisolone on symptom duration and severity in nonasthmatic adults with acute lower respiratory tract infection
- EKU Hot Topic: Doxycycline for outpatient-treated acute exacerbations of COPD
- EKU Hot Topic: Tiotropium in asthma: what is the evidence and how does it fit in?
- EKU Hot Topic: Safety of Reduced Antibiotic Prescribing for Self Limiting Respiratory Tract Infections in Primary Care
- EKU Podcast: Diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management
- EKU Podcast: Management of asthma
- EKU Screencast: Diagnosis & Management of Community & Hospital Acquired Pneumonia in Adults
Sexual Health
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Contraception
- Hepatitis B&C
- Sexual Health in Primary Care
- Sexual and reproductive needs of the LGBTQ+ community
- EKU2023.2: Long-acting reversible contraception
- EKU2022.2: Prescribing the oral contraceptive pill
- EKU2020.2: Contraception for women aged over 40 years
- EKU2017.2: Routine investigation and monitoring of adult HIV-1 positive individuals and increasing uptake of HIV testing
- EKU Hot Topic: Male-partner treatment to prevent recurrence of bacterial vaginosis
- EKU Podcast: Combined Oral Contraception
- EKU Podcast: Prescribing the oral contraceptive pill
- EKU Hot Topic: HIV infection: treatment and research
Smoking, Alcohol & Substance Misuse
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
EKU Topic:
- EKU2017.1: Clinical management and treatment of opioid use disorder
- EKU18: Alcohol use disorders
- EKU18: Combined pharmacotherapy and behavioural interventions for smoking cessation
Urgent and Unscheduled Care
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
Life stage topics
Children and Young People
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Autistic Spectrum Conditions
- Better transitions: improving young people’s transfer from paediatric to adult services
- Bladder and bowel problems in children
- Breastfeeding
- Childhood epilepsy and infantile spasms
- Chronic Pain in Children and Young People
- Consultation with young people with mental health problems: a practical guide
- Early diagnosis of cancer in young adults
- Infant Nutrition
- Kawasaki Disease
- Neuromuscular Disorders in Childhood
- Speech and Language Impairment in Children
- EKU2022.2: Childhood constipation
- EKU2021.2: The limping child: when to worry and when to refer
- EKU2018.2: Child abuse and neglect
- EKU18: Wheeze and asthma in children
- EKU17: Bronchiolitis in children
- EKU16: Recognition, diagnosis and management of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in children and young people
- EKU Hot Topic: Assessing children who are acutely ill in general practice using the National PEWS and LqSOFA clinical scores
- EKU Hot Topic: Antibiotic effectiveness for children with lower respiratory infections
- EKU Hot Topic: Course of uncomplicated acute gastroenteritis in children presenting to out-of-hours primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Cost-effectiveness of oral ondansetron for children with acute gastroenteritis in primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Impact of antibiotics for children presenting to general practice with cough on adverse outcomes
- EKU Hot Topic: Over diagnosis of asthma in children in primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Childhood urinary tract infection in primary care
People with Long-Term Conditions including Cancer
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Better transitions: improving young people’s transfer from paediatric to adult services
- Cancer detection in primary care
- Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
- EKU2021.3: Chronic pain (primary and secondary) in over 16s
- EKU2019.2: Prostate cancer screening and the prostate-specific antigen test
- EKU2018.2: Long term hormonal treatment for transgender people
- EKU17: Suspected cancer: recognition and referral
- EKU17: Effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and outcomes of mindfulness in patients with chronic pain and depression
- EKU Hot Topic: Fifteen-year outcomes after monitoring, surgery, or radiotherapy for prostate cancer
- EKU Hot Topic: Primary care blood tests before cancer diagnosis
- EKU Hot Topic: Underlying cancer risk among patients with fatigue and other vague symptoms in primary care
- EKU Podcast: Chronic pain (primary and secondary) in over 16s
- EKU Hot Topic: Pre-diagnostic clinical features and blood tests in patients with colorectal cancer
- EKU Hot Topic: Intra-abdominal cancer risk with abdominal pain
- EKU Hot Topic: Non-specific symptoms-based pathways for diagnosing less common cancers in primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Ovarian cancer population screening and mortality after long-term follow-up in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS)
- EKU Hot Topic: Association between use of urgent suspected cancer referral and mortality and stage at diagnosis
- EKU Hot Topic: Selection of men for investigation of possible testicular cancer in primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Effect of a low-intensity PSA-based screening intervention on prostate cancer mortality
- EKU Hot Topic: Follow-up of prostatectomy versus observation for early prostate cancer
- EKU Hot Topic: Diagnostic accuracy of multi-parametric MRI and TRUS biopsy in prostate cancer
- EKU Podcast: Prostate cancer screening and the PSA test
- EKU Podcast: Suspected cancer: recognition and referral
Older Adults
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
EKU Topic:
- EKU2019.3: Comprehensive geriatric assessment in primary care settings
- EKU2018.1: Management of depression in older adults
- EKU Hot Topic: Antibiotic management of UTI in elderly patients in primary care and its association with bloodstream infections and all-cause mortality
- EKU Hot Topic: Trimethoprim use for urinary tract infection and risk of adverse outcomes in older patients
- EKU Hot Topic: Association between calcium or vitamin D supplementation and fracture incidence in community-dwelling older adults
- EKU Hot Topic: Continuity of care in primary care and association with survival in older people
- EKU Hot Topic: Quantifying the risk of multiple myeloma from symptoms reported in primary care patients
People at the End-of-Life
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Better transitions: improving young people’s transfer from paediatric to adult services
- Motor Neurone Disease
- Motor Neurone Disease Advanced Care
- The Medical Examiner System and reform of the Death Certification Process
Professional topics
Consulting in General Practice
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Behaviour change and cancer prevention
- Best practice for remote working and virtual patient care in general practice
- Beyond the GP: a team approach to patient care
- Early diagnosis of cancer in young adults
- Essentials of smoking cessation
- Health Inequalities
- Professional virtues in modern medicine
- Providing primary care to police officers
- Roger Neighbour's Ten Tips for Successful Video Consultations
- Screening for Alcohol Use Disorders
- Updates to the GMC's Good Medical Practice
- EKU2017.2: Multimorbidity: clinical assessment and management
- EKU16: Identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in children, young people adults
- EKU Hot Topic: Impact of physician assistants on quality of care
- EKU Hot Topic: Trends in full-time working in general practice
- EKU Hot Topic: Diagnostic windows in non-neoplastic diseases
- EKU Hot Topic: Continuity of care and mortality for patients with chronic disease
- EKU Hot Topic: Identifying how GPs spend their time and the obstacles they face
- EKU Hot Topic: Continuity in general practice as predictor of mortality, acute hospitalisation, and use of out-of-hours care
- EKU Hot Topic: Factors affecting the documentation of spoken safety-netting advice in routine GP consultations
- EKU Hot Topic: Factors associated with potentially missed acute deterioration in primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Primary care practitioner empathy and risk of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes
- EKU Hot Topic: Continuity of care and referral rate: challenges for the future of health care
- EKU Hot Topic: Weight loss as a predictor of cancer in primary care
- EKU Hot Topic: Brief intervention targeting predominantly non-verbal communication in GP consultations
- EKU Hot Topic: Physician associates and GPs in primary care
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Allyship
- An introduction to inclusion health
- Creating an inclusive primary care environment
- Gender bias in pain
- Gender Variance
- Reducing health inequalities in primary care
- Reducing health inequalities for patients with limited English
- Reducing Health Inequalities 10 in 10
- Veterans' Health
Evidence Based Practice, Research and Sharing Knowledge
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Cancer detection in primary care
- Climate health equity
- Critical Appraisal
- Early diagnosis of cancer in young adults
- Introduction to sustainable healthcare
- Research and Surveillance in Primary Care
- Research Ready
- Understanding non-clinical carbon and general practice
Improving Quality, Safety and Prescribing
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Core Skills in Musculoskeletal Care
- Multimorbidity
- Overdiagnosis
- Overprescribing
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in Primary Care
- Prescribing in General Practice
- Prescribing Safety
- Quality Improvement
- Quality Improvement: Screencasts
- Secure Environments
- EKU2018.2: Long term hormonal treatment for transgender people
- EKU2017.2: Appropriate opioid use in chronic pain management
- EKU17: Systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use
- EKU Hot Topic: Unintended consequences of patient online access to health records
- EKU Hot Topic: Safety netting in routine primary care consultations
- EKU Hot Topic: Risks and benefits of direct oral anticoagulants versus warfarin in a real-world setting
- EKU Podcast: Appropriate opioid use in chronic pain management
Leadership and Management
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
Population and Planetary Health
eLearning Courses (Modules, Podcasts and Screencasts):
- Alkaptonuria – "Black Bone Disease"
- Behaviour change and cancer prevention
- Bloating and other Abdominal Symptoms: Could it be Ovarian Cancer?
- Breast Cancer Screening - The Essentials
- Core safeguarding in general practice (Level 3)
- Gambling
- Environmental benefits of social prescribing
- Hepatitis B&C
- NHS Screening
- Non-diabetic Hyperglycaemia and the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme
- Overprescribing
- Pancreatic Cancer: Early Diagnosis in General Practice
- Prescribing in General Practice
- Prostate Cancer: Early Diagnosis in General Practice
- Screening issues in the LGBTQ+ population
- Secure Environments
- Urinary Tract Infections: A Primary Care Puzzle
Other
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