Short Courses for Medical Doctors

This module will enable you to use patient controlled analgesia (PCA) techniques according to patient need and to manage common problems and side-effects.

This session looks at the action of opioids given by epidural and intrathecal routes and considers the key adverse effects; it will enable you to execute a management strategy for these adverse effects.

This session describes the optimization of pain control through the rational combination of drug and non-drug modalities.

This session examines how and why acute pain services came into existence by exploring antecedents and important landmarks. It also looks at their organization and explains how this helps to support its objectives. Challenges that the services face now an

This session lists the key points to cover when taking a headache history. These will help you distinguish between headaches that need further investigation and those that do not.

This session revises the typical symptoms and signs that people with Parkinson’s disease are likely to present with, at the initial stage of their illness.

This session revises the typical features and differential diagnoses of parkinsonism.

This session familiarises you with the diagnostic process and key points in the management of Parkinson’s disease (PD).

This session discusses the clinical findings associated with spinal cord compression.

This session discusses the causes of acute spinal cord compression.