Course Materials

ePortfolio

Your eportfolio is a tool to store and record evidence that demonstrates your progress, clinical competencies and reflections. Try to

Performing Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)

Thanks to Geeky Medics for an excellent video demonstration Equipment Gloves Alcohol wipe Cotton wool/ gauze ABG syringe (ensure it

Mental Capacity

Mental Capacity is the ability to make your own decisions at the time at which the decision needs to be

Venepuncture

Equipment Gloves Hand sanitiser Alcohol wipe Tourniquet Cotton wool/ gauze Needle Syringe or vacutainer Blood bottles Specimen bag Plaster or

Discussing Treatment Escalation & DNAR

As an FY1 you should not be expected to make decisions regarding treatment escalation and DNAR, but you may need

Cannulation

Demonstration video thanks to Geeky Medics Equipment Gloves Hand sanitiser Tourniquet Appropriate size cannula Alcohol swab Gauze Syringe 0.9% sodium

Palliative Care

Dying is a natural process and unfortunately, something that we all come across in our daily jobs, including whilst on

Upper GI bleed

These patients have the potential to become haemodynamically unstable extremely quickly; try to avoid delays in reviewing them. In-hospital mortality

Sepsis

Sepsis is an infection with evidence of organ dysfunction. Septic shock is when a patient with sepsis is hypotensive despite

Preparing for FY1

It is common for FY1s to feel anxious & feel like they’re not ready to start. We expect you to

Hypotension

Expect many bleeps about hypotension from concerned nursing staff. It is a useful way to flag up which patients might

Prioritising Jobs

I’m going to try and be as generic as possible so that hopefully these tips work across different specialities and

Delirium

Acute confusion, otherwise known as delirium, is very common in hospitals: 20-30% on medical wards, and between 10-50% of those

Handover

Handover occurs between shifts to ensure everyone is up to speed with patients. The exact nature of how it occurs

Common Prescribing Errors

When I supervise and teach FY1s, prescribing is in the top three things they are most concerned about. Usually, they’re

Self-discharge

Frequently patients wish to self-discharge from hospitals. This article pertains to adult patients only (18y+) and these patients can be

Hyperglycaemia

Hyperglycaemia is something you will encounter frequently. In this article, we focus on how to approach hyperglycaemia and identify diabetic

Writing SLEs

SLEs are supervised learning events that include Mini-CEX (mini clinical evaluation exercise) CBD (case-based discussion) DOPS (direct observation of procedural

Requesting scans

Requesting scans can be a scary daily occurrence for new doctors. It is one of few times where you liaise

Pre & Post Operative Care

As a junior doctor, you will frequently look after patients prior to and after their operation. You may be asked

Falls

As an F1, you will quite frequently get bleeped to review a patient who has had a fall on the

Hypoxia

As an FY1, you will be called to review hypoxic ward patients. Here we discuss common causes of generalised hypoxia

Prescribing analgesia

When assessing pain, ensure you begin by taking a history to characterise the pain as neuropathic pain, inflammatory pain and

Prescribing IV Fluids

There are certain situations where you need to prescribe IV fluids which vary from fluid resuscitation to maintenance fluids if

Surviving Ward Rounds

It takes time to get used to the ward round. Particularly, when patients are being seen so fast it seems