Short Courses for Medical Doctors

This session outlines the basic definitions of local and regional anaesthesia (LA and RA), and advises when to use each as a sole technique and when to use in combination with general anaesthesia (GA). It also covers consent issues, minimal safety standar

This session introduces the concepts of balanced anaesthesia, balanced analgesia and the stress response to surgery.

This session describes the preoperative visit. The visit confirms that the preadmission assessment service has prepared the patient, home and hospital so that scheduled surgery may proceed safely. The patient decides whether they are happy for you to anae

This session provides an introduction to a limited number of analgesic agents used during and after anaesthesia.

This session provides the opportunity to learn how to choose an appropriate statistical test for the common types of research projects. It also enables you to recognize if an appropriate test has been used in a journal article.

This session covers how medical evidence is evaluated, and how it can be used in a clinical setting. It also discusses how meta-analysis is performed.

This session builds on the knowledge gained from part one. It covers how a clinical trial is designed, the various types of clinical trial and how the outcome of a trial is evaluated.

This session covers how cohort studies are designed, measures of association, relative risk and odds ratios.

This session enables the trainee to present data appropriately, and to interpret some of the more advanced graphs found in medical literature.

This session describes the main properties of diagnostic tests and their limitations.