Australia Permanent Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session revises the basic physiology of water and sodium regulation, and demonstrates a structured approach to the assessment and management of patients with hyponatraemia.

Pyrexia or fever of unknown origin (PUO) is an important presentation in clinical medicine. This session describes the subcategories of PUO caused by endocrine conditions and will help in learning the process of differential diagnosis.

This session covers typical clinical features and management of both thyrotoxicosis and thyroid storm.

This session focuses on the pathophysiology of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in causing cough.

This session provides the knowledge base required to identify possible causes of abdominal pain and describes an approach to the patient.

This session addresses the assessment, investigation and management of diarrhoea, with a particular focus on common conditions that present in the acute medical setting.

This session covers the presentation, investigation and management of jaundice in the acute setting.

This session provides an overview of the common causes of nausea and vomiting and the aetiology behind such presentations. Treatment options are discussed in terms of the cause of the symptoms.

A brief overview on identifying those patients at risk of refeeding syndrome, with reference to NICE guidelines.

This session considers the initial clinical presentation, appropriate radiological and endoscopic investigations, differential diagnoses and management of patients with ulcerative colitis.