Take Aurally

It was great to display Take Aurally at UMEC 2018.  This is the Undergraduate Medical Education Conference at NUH NHS Trust and showcases the best of medical education going on.  We were able to record a conference special with attendees and presenters at UMEC.

Thank you to the following attendees and speakers for sharing their thoughts and projects with us:

Mr Nick Kythreotis - Undergraduate Medical Education Manager at NUH NHS Trust and one of the organisers of UMEC

Dr Michael O'Donoghue - Consultant Neurologist at NUH

Dr Anna Richmond - Obs and Gynae Teaching Fellow (and Take Aurally alumnus) presenting 'Teaching Techniques to Promote More Effective Learning'

Jean Sheridan - Simulated Patient at NUH

Dr Hollie Kingsnorth and Dr Simon Deery - 'Student-Developed Mock OSCE Stations (SMOSCES): A Collaborative Cross-Site Exercise to Aid Students Revision'

Professor Bryn Baxendale - Consultant Anaesthetist and Director of Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre at NUH

Mrs Molly McLaughlin - Clinical Teaching Fellow in Clinical Skills and Simulation at NUH presenting the Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre (TSCSC) video resources

Dr Rebecca Noble - Clinical Teaching Fellow in Medicine at NUH 'What is a doctor?: An Exploration of the Changing Perceptions of Undergraduate Medical Students at the University of Nottingham'

Mr Mark Fores - Interprofessional Lead Educator, DREEAM 'The Australain National Health Education and Training Simulation (NHET-SIM)

Dr Kalun Ng - Clinical Teaching Fellow in Medicine at NUH 'Medical Student Well-Being on Clinical Placement'

Mr Jonny Coleman - Clinical Teaching Fellow in Pharmacy at NUH 'Helping Students to Get Medicine Right First Time through Ward-Based Medicines Reconciliation Teaching'

Remember to visit www.takeaurally.com and find us on Facebook and Twitter. NUH DREEAM and NUH UMED are both on Twitter too and you can check out #UMEC2018 on Twitter!

Dr Craig Douglas came down to the NUH DREEAM booth to discuss Aortic Dissection, who gets it, why they get it, how they present and what we can do about it. We'll discuss 'Chest Pain + 1', what bedside investigations we can do that will make us suspicious of aortic dissection and then we'll have a look at the future and the ADvISED trial. As ever, you can find links and our #TakeVisually at www.takeaurally.com. Remember both Take Aurally and DREEAM are on Facebook and Twitter. Enjoy!

This special episode is a live recording of an NUH DREEAM Academic Meeting on 30th May 2018 by Neurosurgical ST2 Dr Andrew Dapaah. He covers the ED Guide to Neurosurgery, looking at the approach to a CT Head, Trauma, Neurovascular conditions and Shunt emergencies. Visit www.takeaurally.com for the full blog including the slides that go with this podcast as well as the Take Visually for this episode. Remember both Take Aurally and NUH DREEAM are on both Facebook and Twitter as well!

For our second podcast on Psychiatry from NUH DREEAM our favourite Psychiatrist Dr James Ellison came along to take us through the Mental Health Act as well as Capacity and Assessing Capacity. We'll discuss Section 2, Section 3, Section 5 and Section 136. For the blog for this episode visit www.takeaurally.com. As ever both Take Aurally and NUH DREEAM are on both Facebook and Twitter.

Slight later than planned straight from the NUH DREEAM mixing desk comes our latest podcast! This session is a live recording of our fourth #UnblindingResearch session on 'Types of trial'. We cover Longitudinal studies, what a cohort is, the difference between observational and interventional studies and also have a look at designing a randomised control trial by looking at sweets. There is a lot of talk of sweets. The group work is removed the sake of brevity. More information is available at www.takeaurally.com. Take Aurally is also on Facebook and Twitter as is NUH DREEAM and our Research team!

This session from NUH DREEAM covers research ethics, what they are and why they are so important. We start by looking at some infamous cases of poor research ethics and what they can teach us. We look at 'a tale of two cities' - Nuremberg 1947 and Helsinki 1964 before then discussing Good Clinical Practice and how we can get ethical approval from the Health Research Authority. Don't forget to visit TakeAurally.com to find links to the Nuremberg and Helsinki principles as well as the HRA pages on ethical approval and the NIHR page on GCP. Remember: the only way is ethics. Warning: does mention Nazis and Syphilis a few times. NUH DREEAM is on both Facebook and Twitter.

In our first podcast back from our Easter Holidays our favourite pharmacist Kunal Gohil joined us in the NUH DREEAM booth to tackle anti-Parkinson's medications.  Expect the usual blend of physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology as well as Jamie showing off his rapid Googling skills. Remember to visit TakeAurally.com for the Take Visually for this episode. Take Aurally and NUH DREEAM are both on Facebook and Twitter!

This episode is a live recording of the second session of #UnblindingResearch held in NUH DREEAM 21st March 2018.

Research. THE search. WE search. And...fee search?! This episode covers that moment of inspiration as you embark on research. We cover PICO and how that helps us with our literature search, to formulate a question and how that will begin to shape our methodology. There's even a bit of a history lesson as we discuss Dr James Lind and his work on scurvy in 1747 (because we love a bit of medical history at Take Aurally).

The slides for this presentation and the links mentioned are at www.takeaurally.com.

Remember you can find Take Aurally and NUH DREEAM on both Facebook and Twitter. The DREEAM Research team can be found @DREEAMResNUH.

The next session from #UnblindingResearch is on GCP and Ethics and will be on 18th April.

Beaming out from the NUH DREEAM recording booth comes the second part of the Therapeutics specials on Antithrombotics where our ED Pharmacist Kunal takes us through anticoagulants. We cover the clotting cascade, Heparins, Coumarins, DOACs, Fundoparinux and Thrombolytics. As ever Kunal shares his great knowledge including the reason why warfarin might actually increase your risk of clot! Check out www.takeaurally.com for more information including the Take Visually for this episode. Remember to follow Take Aurally and NUH DREEAM on Facebook and Twitter.

This episode is a live recording of a teaching session by Jamie Thomas at DREEAM on the work of Mr Ross Fisher, Paediatric Surgeon and a legend amongst FOAMed for his work on how to do a presentation (#htdap). His p cubed approach is explored here along with useful tips on how to give the DREEAM presentations culminating with the team at DREEAM making the pledge #wewillgiveDREEAMpresentations. Find Ross at http://ffolliet.com. Take Aurally and NUH DREEAM are both on Facebook and Twitter and remember to check out www.takeaurally.com for the slides to this presentation! Make sure you tell everyone of the amazing things you've seen!