Welsh Acute Physician's Society
Developing and supporting Acute Medicine in Wales
Dr Melanie Nana has let us know that she’s organising a one-day obstetric medicine course at the Vale Resort on Monday 30th September 2024. Obstetric medicine is always a highly popular topic at acute medicine conferences so it’s great to have an opportunity to learn about it in Wales!
Further details and registration are here.
We now have further details on the headache conference that Dr Mohamed Hasan is organising at the Marriott Hotel in Cardiff on Friday 18th October 2024.
The fee will be £50 (this sounds like excellent value!) and registration is available via this link.
The provisional programme is also now available.
We’re excited to announce that our summer symposium this year will be on the theme of “NICE and challenging: acute care in 2024 and beyond”, taking place in Bodelwyddan, North Wales.
Click here for more information and to book
Chris Subbe and WAPS are delighted to be hosting our next face-to-face only symposium – this time in fabulous North Wales after a six-year hiatus!
We will cover recent medical updates and reflect on the current clinical and non-clinical challenges we all face in healthcare. As always, we have a range of sessions and speakers and we especially welcome anyone in acute/general medicine to our event – delivered by our acute medicine multidisciplinary family in Wales and beyond!
Click here for more information, the full programme, and to book
We’re pleased to announce the details for our next symposium at the King Arthur Hotel on the Gower, which will take place on Thursday 29th June 2023.
See the Eventbrite page for further information and to book!
The theme will be “Anniversaries: Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Future” and our speakers will include:
All grades and all professions are welcome!
See the Eventbrite page for further information and to book!
The event has now sold out. If you missed us, please consider coming to our next symposium in the Gower on 29th June!
Our symposia are back! Following successful events pre-COVID in the Gower and North Wales, we will be hosting in Cardiff for the first time – as face-to-face only. As always, we have a range of both clinical and non-clinical sessions relating to Acute and General medicine – this time delivered by our MDT family in Wales and beyond!
To book your place, see our Eventbrite page
A – Acute… : Clinical talks covering common acute presentations in general medicine
B – Bring them to Ambulatory Care!: Clinical talks showcasing what ambulatory care can (and sometimes can’t!) deliver in the world of acute care…
C – Culture: Mr Simon Fleming – Orthopaedic Surgeon from London talks about the national anti-bullying campaign #HammerItOut
D – Diversity at the Front Door: A collection of talks from representatives from our fantastic teams that we would be nothing without at the front door – physician associates, pharmacy, advanced clinical practitioners and more
(We are not delivering a virtual option or recording talks on this occasion)
We’re pleased to confirm the dates for our educational meetings in 2023!
On Thursday 16th February 2023 we will be hosting an educational event at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff entitled “The ABCD of Acute Medicine”. The meeting is face-to-face only. It’s open to all, and Welsh AIM trainees will be able to attend for free. Check back here in a few weeks for more details and registration information.
Our Wales Acute Medicine training week for registrars will start this year on Monday 26th June at our usual South Wales venue, the King Arthur Hotel in Reynoldston on the Gower Peninsula. Our annual symposium will take place at the King Arthur on Thursday 29th June 2023 and again, all are welcome – expect more details slightly nearer the time.
We hope you’ll be able to join us at one (or both!) of our events next year.
WAPS is pleased to announce the date for our 2022 webinar which will take place on the Thursday 14th July between 1230 and 1700. The full programme is still being finalised but further details and booking are now available via Eventbrite. We hope to see you there!
The Welsh Acute Physicians’ Society (WAPS) is pleased to announce that, following the success of our first webinar last year, our annual symposium will be going ahead as a live online event for 2021.
We understand that it is vital to continue learning and sharing amongst our peers, despite recent events. So we are pleased to once again provide a programme of clinical and non-clinical talks relating to acute and general medicine.
We would like to thank our hard-working team of consultants/trainees in Wales, along with our speakers, who are taking the time and effort to contribute, enabling virtual learning and connections, whilst we eagerly anticipate meeting face-to-face with you all soon.
Who is it for?
Programme
12:30 Checking In
13:00 NICE Guidance: All the Young Punks
On the back of the success and positive feedback from this session last year, we once again take you on a whistle-stop tour of new guidelines relevant to medicine – including acute coronary syndrome, atrial fibrillation, anaphylaxis, brain tumours and peri-operative care.
14:00 D-Dimers and all that jazz
Christian Nickel (@replynickel) is an emergency physician at the Emergency Department of the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. He has a special interest in geriatric emergencies. His main research focus is disease presentation and risk stratification of (older) Emergency Department patients. Christian will talk about D-dimers and their use in acute care.
14:40 Break and Chatter
14:50 Ambulatory Care: Should I stay or should I go?
This session aims to showcase the variety of patients managed in an ambulatory care setting across our units in Wales. Cases will be presented by our acute medicine clinicians, along with a panel discussion. We hope to demonstrate how we maximise the resources that ambulatory care has to offer, whilst providing effective care for our patients.
16:10 Break and Chatter
16:20 Last Talk at the PROMS: Patient Reported Outcome Measures
Marjolein Kremers (@marjoleinkrem) currently works in the Department of Internal Medicine at Máxima Medical Centre and at the CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University. Marjolein does research in Internal Medicine (General Medicine), Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Care. She is well known for her work in the organisation of medical care and the patients’ voice in acute care. Marjolein will aim to increase your awareness of patient reported outcome measures and how they can help make healthcare more effective.
17:00 Close
What do you get?
(Once registered you will receive details of how to join the webinar live and access content after the event)
What does my money contribute to?
Your money goes directly towards teaching and training our acute medicine trainees and furthering development and support for our teams across Wales.
Online Event Disclaimer
There may be those who are unable to attend the webinar live despite registering and making a payment. In order to allow this cohort to benefit from the contributions of our faculty, we are planning to record the webinar and allow access to this content for those delegates. If you are registering for the event, we will accept this as consent to the recording and distribution of the content to delegates.
Unfortunately we are unable to accept refunds after the event has taken place, but you will be able to benefit from access to the recorded talks.
We’re pleased to announce that our 2021 annual symposium will take place in the afternoon of Thursday 1st July. Similar to last year, this will be an online event to support the annual training week for our Wales acute medicine registrars. 4 RCP CPD points have been applied for.
Please check back over the next few weeks for further information including how to book your place!
The brand new Welsh Obstetric Medicine Society has announced that their first (virtual) meeting will take place on 24th May 2021 from 1830-2000 on Microsoft Teams when they will discuss vasculitis in pregnancy.
The speakers will be Dr Bethan Phillips (Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology), Dr Melanie Nana (Clinical Fellow in Obstetric Medicine), and Dr Claire Hill (Specialist Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology).
To register for free, please email from an NHS or academic email address.
Obstetric medicine is an approved specialist skill that can be gained during speciality training in acute medicine – if that combination is a career option that might interest you feel free to contact us for an informal chat!