Dr George Thomas interviews Dr Mike Wilkinson about the role of SAS doctors, how and why doctors might consider this type of role, and the route to the specialist register via CESR.

Dr Wilkinson is an Associate Specialist in Geriatrics and SAS Tutor for Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. HEE NE & North Cumbria Associate Dean for SAS Doctors & Dentists, and SAS Representative for RCPE Trainees & Members’ Committee.

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Dr Phil Reid, a Respiratory Consultant in Edinburgh, talks about assessing the patient with lung cancer in the acute medical admissions unit.

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Dr Tina Ryan interviews Dr Lara Mitchell about syncope. They discuss assessment, the importance of a history taking, driving advice, and how to setup a syncope service.

Dr Mitchell is a Consultant Geriatrician at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where she setup a syncope service.

-- Resources --

Syncope Unit Rationale - https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euv115

Syncope pathway article (Br J Cardiol 2019;26:133–6) - http://dx.doi.org/10.5837/bjc.2019.040

ESC Guidelines - https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Syncope-Guidelines-on-Diagnosis-and-Management-of

Nice Guidelines - https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/conditions-and-diseases/neurological-conditions/transient-loss-of-consciousness

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Dr Anda Bularga interviews Dr Justin McKee, Consultant in Medical Ophthalmology in NHS Lothian. He talks about the ocular manifestations of systemic illnesses and clinical presentation and management of these patients. Dr McKee also gives an overview of the training path and a career in Medical Ophthalmology.

Dr McKee works between the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion and Department of Clinical Neurology in Edinburgh, specialising in diabetic retinopathy, Uveitis, Thyroid eye disease and Neuro-ophthalmology.

Ophthalmology specialty training

- https://www.jrcptb.org.uk/specialties/medical-ophthalmology

- https://www.rcophth.ac.uk/

Recording date: 9 July 2021

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Dr Tina Ryan talks to Dr Rosie Baruah about microaggressions, how to recognise them and actions you can take.

Dr Baruah is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Western General Hospital and Hon. Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

-- The Seven Acts of Allyship --

Appetite – Do you have the appetite to immerse yourself in the complex, emotive world of race equality?

Ask – Ask questions about race, be curious, read, learn and educate yourself.

Accept – Accept there is really a problem. More data aren’t needed.

Acknowledge – Openly acknowledge that the problem needs to be dealt with.

Apologise – Express sympathy that racism is affecting people of certain races.

Assume – Don’t. Instead develop informed views by seeking to understand individuals.

Action – Take demonstrable action steps to establish equality and be accountable.

7 A's Infographic - https://twitter.com/yvonnecoghill1/status/1280744970102636550

https://twitter.com/rosieICM

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Dr Jonathan Bardgett interviews Dr Murray Blackstock, a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia. He talks about the presentation and management of patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) and gives some useful advice on how to refer these patients to neurosurgery and critical care. He refers to NICE guidance and his own personal experience of managing the patient with acute onset headache.

NICE Guidelines - https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/conditions-and-diseases/cardiovascular-conditions/cranial-aneurysms

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Dr Jonathan Bardgett interviews Dr Snehashish Banik about the importance and practicalities of using point of care ultrasound in the acute medical admissions unit. He talks about how trainees can learn this specialist skill.

Dr Banik is Consultant Physician in Acute and General Internal Medicine. He is a FAMUS (Focused Acute Medicine Ultrasound) supervisor in Scotland.

www.acutemedicine.org.uk/famus/

www.famus.org.uk

FAMUS YouTube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCW5COwTFePkExC2CMkgj-gA/videos

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Dr David Ryan interviews Prof Emma Baker and Dr Dipender Gill about Clinical Pharmacology discussing their day to day experiences and why everyone should consider it as a specialty.

British Pharmacological Society

www.bps.ac.uk

Professor Baker is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, St George's, University of London with an interest in polypharmacy, translational research and education. Clinical Vice President of the British Pharmacological Society, with the remit of promoting Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics as a medical specialty. Training Programme Director for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in London with a passion for making sure that specialty training is excellent!

Dr Gill work at St. George's Hospital and St. George's, University of London, where he is appointed as a an NIHR Clinical Lecturer. Dipender also works flexibly as a Specialist in the Genetics Department of the Novo Nordisk Research Centre in Oxford and has continued an honorary affiliation at Imperial College London, where he is supported by the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence.

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Dr Martin Wilson, a Consultant in Medicine of the Elderly, talks about Frailty and Polypharmacy.

Dr Wilson is a Consultant in Care of the Elderly, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.

Interest in care of the elderly in remote rural areas, community hospitals and Parkinson's Disease. Commissioner on Committee for Human Medicines MHRA. Long standing interest in Polypharmacy and involved in NHS Scotland's Polypharmacy Guideline from the outset.

Polypharmacy Guidance: Realistic Prescribing, 3rd edition (2018)

https://managemeds.scot.nhs.uk/

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Dr Roger Smyth, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, talks about the mental health aspects of alcohol misuse, management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome and the process of liver transplantation assessment.

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