This session covers the common and/or important infective causes of vulvitis and their management, other symptoms and signs associated with infective vulvitis, diagnostic techniques needed to identify the cause, and when empirical treatment is appropriate
This session will introduce you to the design features, advantages and disadvantages of common study designs used for describing a population’s health, identifying risk factors, and evaluating the effectiveness of treatments or other interventions.
This session will introduce you to the fundamental concepts of epidemiology that are used to measure the health of the population (rather than of individuals) and to assess the effectiveness of public health interventions.
In this session you will learn how to formulate a clear clinical question, and how to find research evidence to answer clinical questions. This is a level 1 (introductory) module, written for health professionals working in sexual health.
This session will introduce you to the public health principles of screening programmes, including the criteria that should be fulfilled before a screening programme is initiated and regulatory structures for oversight of screening programmes in the UK.
This session will cover the generic public health principles underpinning surveillance systems, outline the issues to be considered when designing a surveillance system and review existing surveillance systems for HIV and STIs in both a UK and internation
This session will introduce you to the regulations for the notification and control of communicable disease in the UK; the role of the health protection services; the doctor's duty to report notifiable diseases; and what this means in practice for the ge
This session explains the diagnosis and management of disorders of menstruation including dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhoea, menorrhagia, intermenstrual and postcoital bleeding.
