Making sense of blackouts and funny turns
This course is sponsored by educational grants from: UCB, Eisai and Glaxo Smith Kline
This course is aimed at GPs, GP trainees, trainee doctors in acute medical specialities including A&E, and nursing and paramedical staff.
Programme:
Could it be cardiac?
What makes you think it’s a seizure?
Things that go bump in the night Could there be a psychiatric or psychological explanation?
Metabolic and miscellaneous
Developing competencies: ECG interpretation, seizure types, case studies, sleep disorders, syncopy, non-epileptic attacks and driving regulations.
Speakers:
Dr Linda Parsons - Consultant Neurologist at West Herts Hospitals, Luton and Dunstable and Royal Free Hospitals
Dr John Bayliss – Consultant Cardiologist at Watford (Inpatients, Cath Lab procedures), Hemel Hempstead (Outpatients) & St Albans (Outpatients)
Dr Fergus Rugg-Gunn – Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square
Dr Sofia Eriksson - Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square
Dr Markus Reuber – Reader, Academic Neurology Unit, University of Sheffield
Why choose this course?
This course is sponsored by educational grants from: UCB, Eisai and Glaxo Smith Kline
This course is aimed at GPs, GP trainees, trainee doctors in acute medical specialities including A&E, and nursing and paramedical staff.
Programme:
Could it be cardiac?
What makes you think it’s a seizure?
Things that go bump in the night Could there be a psychiatric or psychological explanation?
Metabolic and miscellaneous
Developing competencies: ECG interpretation, seizure types, case studies, sleep disorders, syncopy, non-epileptic attacks and driving regulations.
Speakers:
Dr Linda Parsons - Consultant Neurologist at West Herts Hospitals, Luton and Dunstable and Royal Free Hospitals
Dr John Bayliss – Consultant Cardiologist at Watford (Inpatients, Cath Lab procedures), Hemel Hempstead (Outpatients) & St Albans (Outpatients)
Dr Fergus Rugg-Gunn – Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square
Dr Sofia Eriksson - Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square
Dr Markus Reuber – Reader, Academic Neurology Unit, University of Sheffield
Entry requirements...
This course is aimed at GPs, GP trainees, trainee doctors in acute medical specialities including A&E, and nursing and paramedical staff.Course fees
To reserve your place, please send a deposit of £50 returnable on attendance to:
Rebecca Moore,
Health Research Building,
University of Hertfordshire,
Hatfield, AL10 9AB
Tel: 01707 285169
email: admin.spgm@herts.ac.uk
Please make cheques payable to: University of Hertfordshire.
Study routes
- Part Time