Symposium 2018

Programme as PDF

WAPS logo

Acute Medicine Symposium
“The Young and The Old: Medicine Through the Ages”

Thursday 21st June 2018

The Faenol Fawr Hotel, Bodelwyddan, LL18 5UN


8:30 REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS


SESSION 1
Chair: Dr C Burford

09:00  Workforce Planning: Protecting Our Young Speciality
Dr Mark Holland, Consultant Acute Physician, Salford Royal Hospital

09:30  Top Five Common Presentations of the Young Adult
Dr Chris Hodcroft, Consultant Acute Physician, Royal Glamorgan Hospital

10:00  Clinical Simulation Training: Stimulating Young Minds
Dr Phil Dyer, Consultant Acute Physician, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham


10:30  REFRESHMENTS & INDUSTRY EXHIBITION


SESSION 2
Chair: Dr J Awad

11:00 Through a Glass Darkly: Reflecting on Reflections
Dr Tom Cozens, Consultant Acute Physician, Royal Gwent Hospital

11:30  Sweet and Salty
Dr Phil Dyer, Consultant Acute Physician, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham

12:00 The Mother of all Patients
Dr Tom Cozens, Consultant Acute Physician, Royal Gwent Hospital

12:30  LUNCH & INDUSTRY EXHIBITION


SESSION 3
Chair: Dr J Hounsell

13:30  Out in the Wild: Community Geriatrics
Dr Siôn Jones, Consultant Geriatric Physician, Ysbyty Gwynedd

14:00  Social Prescribing: Laying off the Drugs
Dr David Evans, Lecturer in Healthcare Sciences, Bangor University

14:30  Living Not Surviving: A Critical Age in ICU
Dr Chris Subbe, Consultant Acute Physician, Ysbyty Gwynedd


 15:00  REFRESHMENTS & INDUSTRY EXHIBITION


SESSION 4
Chair: Dr M Kannan

15:30  The Fool’s Talk
Dr Mark Holland, Consultant Acute Physician, Salford Royal Hospital

16:15  Drugging the Older Person
Dr Siôn Jones, Consultant Geriatric Physician, Ysbyty Gwynedd


17:00  CLOSE


Prices:
Trainees/ANP/AHP £50; Consultants £70

Feedback will be requested at the end of the day and certificates distributed by email. RCP CPD points applied for.

This educational meeting is kindly supported by sponsors through the purchase of promotional exhibition stand space only. They have had no input to the agenda or speakers for this meeting.