Programme

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52nd Annual General Meeting
Friday, 24th & Saturday, 25th September 2010

Venue: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh

Scottish Society of Physicians - Trainee Session

Friday 24th September – 9am – 12.30pm.
Clinical Skills Centre – Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Availability – 18 spaces

To apply for this session, you should be a member of the Scottish Society of Physicians and be attending the annual meeting at RCPE 24-25th September.

The Management of Acute Medical Emergencies

This session will lead you through the management of common acute medical emergencies experienced daily within the front door setting.  Each emergency will be led by an acute medicine consultant, aided by a GIM SpR/Staff Grade. The teaching will be scenario based followed by a short tutorial and then practice in a relevant practical procedure.

The session is designed for trainees interested in General/Acute medicine

Faculty;
Dr Lynn McCallum – Consultant, Acute Medicine
Dr Dan Beckett – Consultant, Acute Medicine
Dr Claire Gordon – Consultant, Acute Medicine
Dr Tim Morse – Consultant, Acute Medicine

Dr Roland Stimson – SpR, Endocrine & Diabetes
Dr Catherine Leeson-Payne – Staff Grade, Acute Medicine
Dr Caroline Bates – SpR, Gastroenterology

To register for trainee session please complete the registration form and submit to Margaret Farquhar (m.farquhar@rcpe.ac.uk)

Please also remember to register for the full Annual Meeting – details of which can be found here

Friday, 24 September 2010

09.30-12.30
 Trainee sessions:
organised by Dr Lynn MacCallum, Acute Medicine
12.00-13.40
 Registration, Lunch & Poster Viewing
13.40-13.55
 Society Business (SSP members only)
13.55-14.00
 Welcome, Professor David Webb
14.00-14.25
 Immunity and disease – complexity or opportunity for clinicians?
Professor Iain McInnes, Professor of Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, Glasgow.
14.30-14.55
 The growing case for vitamin D supplementation
Professor Simon Pearce, Professor of Endocrinology, Institute of Human Genetics, International Centre for Life Central Parkway, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
15.00-15.25
 Clinical research in Scotland
Sir John Savill, Vice Principal & Head, College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh.
15.30-16.00
 Coffee & Poster Viewing
16.00-16.25
 The obesity epidemic
Professor Mike Lean, Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Glasgow
16.30-17.20
 Fitzgerald Peel Lecturer – Healthcare in a time of famine
Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman of NICE
17.30
 Close
19.00
(for 19.30)
Society Reception & Black Tie/Highland Dinner Great Hall,
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Saturday 25 September 2010

08.30-9.00
 Registration, Coffee & Poster Viewing
09.00-09.25
 New developments in device therapy in heart failure
Professor Henry Dargie, Consultant Cardiologist, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow
09.30-09.55
 Hospital acquired infection: From doctors to patients, with complements
Professor John Simpson, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Newcastle University

Concurrent Sessions

 

Lecture Theatre - SSP

  

 

Hall - CSE
10.00-10.10
 Scientific oral presentation  
10:00 – 10:10
 Clinical case presentation
10.15-10.25
 Scientific oral presentation  
10:15 -10:25
 Clinical case presentation
10.30-10.40
 Scientific oral presentation  
10:30 – 10:40
 Clinical case presentation
10.45-10.55
 Scientific oral presentation  
10:45 – 10:55
 Clinical case presentation
11.00-11.30
 Coffee  
 

 

Lecture Theatre - SSP

  

 

Hall - CSE
11.30-11.40
 Scientific oral presentation  
11:30 – 11:55
 Caledonian Society for Endocrinology Prize Lecture
11.45-11.55
 Scientific oral presentation  
 
12.00-12.25 Aldosterone as a focus for the current management of hypertension
Professor John Connell, Dean of Medical School and Professor of Endocrinology, University of Dundee.
12.30-12.40 Award of the Fitzgerald Peel and Poster Prizes
   
12.40 Closing Address and Lunch

Full details on programme, abstract submission, hotel accommodation and on-line registration please click here.

 

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