Upcoming Medical Conferences in Bristol

Introduction to Leadership and Management: The Essentials is organized by The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) and will be held from Sep 23 - 24, 2019 at Bristol, England, United Kingdom. CPD Credits Anticipated: 8 Description: The RCoA Leadership and Management series covers a spectrum of topics designed specifically for anaesthetists that are senior trainees and consultants. The workshops are a balance of plenary sessions, group work and exercises with emphasis on real life issues, open discussions, up-to-date information and will provide time for one-to-one discussions. The Essentials course will help you uncover your behavioural preferences and compare these to others, exploring how it impacts your working relationships. Learn how best to influence the Trust and your team to develop their service. At the end of the course, you will have: • learnt about and had the opportunity to discuss NHS policy development and its impact on service delivery • gained insight into your own and others’ behavioural preferences and how this can impact on your working relationship; and different approaches to day-to-day activity • increased your understanding of how to influence the Trust and others to develop their service • begun to construct a personal development plan based on the Academy’s Medical Leadership Competency Framework. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

ALS - Advanced Life Support Course is organized by Resuscitation Council (UK) and will be held from Sep 23 - 24, 2019 at North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, England, United Kingdom. This CPD Conference has been approved for a maximum of 10 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points. Who is this course suitable for? The ALS provider course is designed for healthcare professionals who would be expected to apply the skills taught as part of their clinical duties, or to teach them on a regular basis. Appropriate participants include doctors, paramedics and nurses working in acute care areas (e.g. ED, CCU, ICU, HDU, operating theatres, acute medical admissions units) or on resuscitation /medical emergency/ICU outreach teams. All applicants must hold a professional healthcare qualification or be in training for a professional healthcare qualification. Medical students, nurses and other healthcare providers not covered in the groups above should be encouraged to complete the Immediate Life Support (ILS) course. Those with a particular interest in resuscitation should then consider attending an ALS provider course, where appropriate. Medical students in their final year of training can be accepted as candidates on an ALS course if this is an established local arrangement. Learning outcomes The ALS course teaches the knowledge and skills required to: • recognise and treat the deteriorating patient using a structured ABCDE approach • deliver standardised CPR in adults • manage a cardiac arrest by working with a multidisciplinary team in an emergency situation • utilise non-technical skills to facilitate strong team leadership and effective team membership. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

South Western Chapter Meeting of ACPGBI: Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease is organized by The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) and will be held on Oct 03, 2019 at SWSTNcic, Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Topics: • Medicine or Surgery for Ueocecal Crohns’s Disease • When to join or defunction? • Radical mesenteric resection in Crohn’s Disease • Timing of surgery in acute severe colitis • Dysplasia in ulcerative colitis • lleoanall pouch and TATME • Managing early post op complications after ileoanal pouch surgery • Quality of IBD surgery data collection and centralization Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.  

ALS - Advanced Life Support Course is organized by Resuscitation Council (UK) and will be held from Oct 03 - 04, 2019 at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, England, United Kingdom. This CPD Conference has been approved for a maximum of 10 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points. Who is this course suitable for? The ALS provider course is designed for healthcare professionals who would be expected to apply the skills taught as part of their clinical duties, or to teach them on a regular basis. Appropriate participants include doctors, paramedics and nurses working in acute care areas (e.g. ED, CCU, ICU, HDU, operating theatres, acute medical admissions units) or on resuscitation /medical emergency/ICU outreach teams. All applicants must hold a professional healthcare qualification or be in training for a professional healthcare qualification. Medical students, nurses and other healthcare providers not covered in the groups above should be encouraged to complete the Immediate Life Support (ILS) course. Those with a particular interest in resuscitation should then consider attending an ALS provider course, where appropriate. Medical students in their final year of training can be accepted as candidates on an ALS course if this is an established local arrangement. Learning outcomes The ALS course teaches the knowledge and skills required to: • recognise and treat the deteriorating patient using a structured ABCDE approach; • deliver standardised CPR in adults; • manage a cardiac arrest by working with a multidisciplinary team in an emergency situation; • utilise non-technical skills to facilitate strong team leadership and effective team membership. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

International Continence Society (ICS) Advanced Training Weekend is organized by International Continence Society (ICS) and will be held from Oct 05 - 06, 2019 at Vesalius Clinical Training Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Description: This Urinary Incontinence surgical training weekend in the centre of Bristol, England, is a unique opportunity to get exposure to a range of training and surgical techniques surrounding stress and urgency urinary incontinence. You will have several hours of practice on the fresh frozen cadavers covering such topics as synthetic and non-synthetic treatment of stress urinary incontinence, BOTOX into the bladder and sacral neuromodulation placement for urgency urinary incontinence. This course is aimed at senior trainees about to start their consultancy position or early career consultants. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Section 12 refresher Oct 2019 is organized by Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPSYCH)  and will be held on Oct 08, 2019 at Holiday Inn Bristol Airport, Bristol, England, United Kingdom. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of six CPD hours. Description: This course has been approved by the Mental Health Act Approval Panel EnglandSouth. Dr. Shamim Dinani is the Lead for this course. Dr. Dinani has been involved with Approved Clinician training and approval for a number of years and is a former member of the regional Approval Panel. We are also fortunate to have the following tutors who regularly teach on Section 12 and Approved Clinician courses: • Paul Barber, non-practicing solicitor and formerly a partner in and consultant to Bevan Brittan, is a trainer over many years in mental health and mental capacity law and co-author of Mental Health Law in England and Wales and The Mental Capacity Act - A Guide for Practice (both 3rd editions). • Debbie Martin, Director of the Bournemouth University, South West England Approved Mental Health Professional’s / BIA course, and an independent trainer. She provides training for many Local Authorities and Trusts, and for s12 Approved Doctors and Approved Clinicians in the South West and the Midlands, and in Wales. Debbie is a co-author with Paul Barber and Rob Brown of Mental Health Law in England and Wales, 3rd Ed (2017), and The Mental Capacity Act 2015, A Guide for Practice, 3rd Ed (2015), published by Sage/Learning Matters. The course is designed for candidates seeking to renew their Section 12 Approval and will cover all aspects of the position. The course is open to all professionals who are already S12 approved, including Clinicians, Social Workers, GPs, Nurses, Psychologists etc. Delegates will be sent pre-course reading material electronically before the course so please ensure that you provide us with an up to date email address. Please be aware that attendance on this course is only part of the process to becoming approved, further details on the next steps of the process will be provided during the course or can be forwarded to you at your request. Aims and Objectives: • To cover all areas required to carry out the role of a Section 12 Practitioner. • To understand the main provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983 as amended. • To gain knowledge in the roles of other key professionals. • To understand the role and responsibilities of a Section 12 Practitioner.

Approved Clinician refresher Course is organized by Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPSYCH) and will be held on Oct 09, 2019 at Holiday Inn Bristol Airport, Bristol, England, United Kingdom. This Course has been approved for a maximum of six CPD hours per day subject to peer group. This course has been approved by the Mental Health Act Approval Panel EnglandSouth. Dr. Shamim Dinani is the Lead for this course. Dr. Dinani has been involved with Approved Clinician training and approval for a number of years and is a former member of the regional Approval Panel. We are also fortunate to have the following tutors who regularly teach on Section 12 and Approved Clinician courses: • Paul Barber, a non-practicing solicitor and formerly a partner in and consultant to Bevan Brittan, is a trainer over many years in mental health and mental capacity law and co-author of Mental Health Law in England and Wales and The Mental Capacity Act - A Guide for Practice (both 3rd editions). • Debbie Martin, Director of the Bournemouth University, South West England Approved Mental health professionals / BIA course and an independent trainer. She provides training for many Local Authorities and Trusts, and for s12 Approved Doctors and Approved Clinicians in the South West and the Midlands, and in Wales. Debbie is a co-author with Paul Barber and Rob Brown of Mental Health Law in England and Wales, 3rd Ed (2017), and The Mental Capacity Act 2015, A Guide for Practice, 3rd Ed (2015), published by Sage/Learning Matters. The course is designed for candidates seeking to renew their Section 12 Approval and will cover all aspects of the position. The course is open to all professionals who are already S12 approved, including Clinicians, Social Workers, GPs, Nurses, Psychologists etc. Delegates will be sent pre-course reading material electronically before the course so please ensure that you provide us with an up to date email address. Please be aware that attendance on this course is only part of the process to becoming approved, further details on the next steps of the process will be provided during the course or can be forwarded to you at your request. Aims and Objectives: • Understand the role of an Approved Clinician, how it differs from a Section 12 Practitioner and how the approvals process operates. • Improve understanding of commonly used compulsory orders, how they are used in more specialised areas and the impact they have on Service Users and Carers. • Understand the appeals/hearings process and gain practical advice on the provision of reports and verbal evidence. • Improve awareness of current case law and of the interface betweenCommon Law, Mental Health Act, Human Rights Act, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.

Paediatric Life Support (PLS) Course is organized by Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) and will be held on Oct 11, 2019 at Bristol Royal Children's Hospital, Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Description: • The PLS course provides the knowledge and skills necessary for the initial recognition, treatment and stabilisation of children with life threatening emergencies, using a structured, sequential approach. • The seriously ill and or injured child needs to be treated as an individual; there are four key differences that determine treatment: weight, anatomy, physiology, and psychology. • The structured approach focuses the clinician on resuscitation, emergency treatment followed by continual stabilisation and then transfer to a definitive care environment. • PLS aims to teach, practice and assess the acquisition and use of these technical skills. In addition, the human factors that generate the highest quality and safest health care provision are considered. Candidate criteria and eligibility: This paediatric life support programme is for those from: • A medical, nursing, ECP, ODP or RTO background and all professions allied to medicine (PAMS) Note: The PLS course is a half day of pre-course on-line learning (VLE) and a 1-day face-to-face. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Paediatric Communication and Consent - Bristol is organized by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and will be held on Oct 18, 2019 at NIHR CLAHRC West, Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.  

British Society of Breast Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2019 is organized by British Society of Breast Radiology (BSBR) and will be held from Nov 03 - 05, 2019 at Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre, Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Description: The aim of the BSBR is to foster interest in breast imaging, to support the education of breast imaging professionals and to promote research. It also has a role in developing national guidance and providing advice on professional matters such as workforce planning. This year, the conference will welcome delegates with an interest in the field of diagnosis and treatment of breast disease and will include the following key topics: • Current trials in breast imaging and treatment • Pre-operative diagnosis and staging of breast cancer • Hot topic: artificial intelligence Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.