medical education

Another date for our diary, Esther Crawley confirmed as a speaker at the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) later this year: http://espidmeeting.org/2018/scientific-information/confirmed-invited-speakers#.WkuWyJCnzMI

What you need to know and what you can do in clinical practice. Long Covid is a devastating consequence of Covid-19 (SARS -CoV2) infection. It's estimated that between 10-30% of individuals infected will go on to have symptoms lasting > 12 weeks. Symptoms of fatigue, chest pain, shortness of...

Open access, https://journals.lww.com/nursingmanagement/Fulltext/2020/10000/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome.10.aspx

omf sent this out: vvv NEW GUIDELINES FOR DIAGNOSING AND TREATING ME/CFS A resource for clinicians and patients. The U.S. ME/CFS Clinician Coalition, a group of U.S. ME/CFS experts, has authored a handout on the basics of diagnosis and management of ME/CFS. This handout is being made...

Improving teaching about medically unexplained symptoms for newly qualified doctors in the UK: findings from a questionnaire survey and expert workshop https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/4/e014720 I picked up on this from article in this thread...

The ME Association has just published it's latest guide. https://meassociation.org.uk/2020/08/now-available-the-2020-me-association-me-cfs-pvfs-clinical-and-research-guide/

https://neurologyopen.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000065 The related talk "Setting up an FND Teaching Curriculum" was held on zoom and is kept available here: https://zoom.us/rec/play/v8B5c7ugqjo3S4HEswSDC6UoW9W_eq6s0CUX-vYKyEi0V3cAMAelb7UQYbbKqX1EQ-CJhxBVBw81g4vz You can listen at x1.5 speed. The...

"Susan O Shea is leading the organisation of the Nurses for ME branch of the education working group. The TOR (terms of reference) would be along the same lines as the CMRC education working group and Susan has done a short summary. The idea is that stakeholders are patients and healthcare...

We are a group of physiotherapists in the United Kingdom with a special interest in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ("ME"). Our aims are: - to educate and inform physiotherapists about ME and appropriate management strategies - to support people with ME to feel confident in seeking physiotherapy...

Nina Muirhead has created this free Continuous Professional Development module for health professionals in the UK. For those interested, it's possible to view, and even complete, the module but you will need to create a free account - you will have to claim that you are a health professional of...

just finished a recent cme on Medscape about me/cfs which got things mostly right although I disagree on how helpful the sleep hygiene recommendation is . it is still a vast improvement on previous medical information especially here in the U K . hopefully it will filter through to our N H S

https://www.meaction.net/2020/03/04/invite-your-doctor-to-learn-about-me-medical-education-event-in-london/

I have been going through my old books from the loft and came across one on Psychiatry (bought at the time I was deciding on whether to go for an autism diagnostic assessment, rather than to look up what it contained on M.E.). So for the first time, before putting it aside on my 'to sell' pile...

Split from the New Zealand thread This looks new - a case study for working with me/cfs patients from University of Auckland, Goodfellow unit... written by Dr Vicki Mount, General Practitioner, MBChB, DipPaeds, with expert review by Dr Rosamund Vallings...

Not sure if this is relevant: https://www.nejm.org/action/showMediaPlayer?doi=10.1056/NEJMdo005619&aid=10.1056/NEJMp1910603&viewType=Popup&viewClass=Audio&ctype=audiointerview&area=production&query=pfwNGTa Caleb Gardner is a psychiatrist who recently completed his residency at Cambridge Health...

After a brief pause the "Postcards to Doctors" project has been relaunched as of Oct. 1. The aim of this project is to have patients (as well as friends, family and other allies) write doctors to urge them take a continuing medical education course. See Unrest medical education for information...

Liyang Pan: Medical education - the tyranny of guidelines and the single best answer Oct. 1st. Simplification has a place in communicating medical knowledge. It is necessary to accommodate breadth, and groundwork should be laid before detail is learnt. The practise of medicine is impossibly...

Posts on this thread have been moved from different threads links added at the end of the posts The GP education program was possible thanks to a grant from ME/CFS Australia. Emerge Australia worked with ThinkGP, an organisation that offers free, continuing professional education for GPs in...

Has anyone done /reviewed the online program from the Northeastern University School of Nursing? Wondering if we can recommend it (in NZ). (and presuming it can be accessed outside the US) Title: Online Program Why Can't This Child Get to Class? Learn how ME/CFS keeps youth from attending...