CME Workshop in Clinical and Laboratory Investigations for Health Care Professionals

Posted on: Fri 18-04-2014

NATIONAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF NIGERIA (NPMCN) Announces A-3day Training workshop in clinical and Laboratory Investigations For Health Care Professionals

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

1. General Medical and Dental Practitioners

2. Residents in Family Medicine

3. Specialists who are desirous of renewing their knoledge and optimizing the use of clinical and laboratory investigations for improved patient management outcomes and

4. Senior Health Professional directly involvd in patient management.

Early registration is necessary to ensure an admission into the course.

The Workshop is Scheduled To Hold As Follows

Date: Wednesday 25th to Friday 27th June 2014

Venue: National Sickle Cell Centre, Opposite Lagos Univerisity Teaching Hospital LUTh, Idi-Araba, Lagos.

Time: 9:00a.m - 5.00 p.m daily

Course Fees: 60,000.00

Fees which cover course materials, tea break and lunch only are payable directly into the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN)

ONLY through FUND TRANSFER OR POS Machine at the College (ijanikin) and Liaison office at LUTH, Idi-Araba OR into the College Bank Accounts as stated below:

BANK ACCOUNT:

Account Number: 0014338514 at GTBank PLC, Idi-Araba, Lagos

Account Number:0007375160 at Union Bank, Idi-Araba, Lagos.Course Philsosphy:

To enhance capacity, skills and competencies for improved patient management through appropriate and effective use of clincal and laboratory

inverstigations,

Goals and Objectives:

1. To renew candidate's knowledge of general and basic laboratory and clinical inverstigations in day to day use in diagnosis and treatment and monitoring of patient's progress in medical practice.

2. To enhance cadidates' ability for making critical choices in the array of avaiable clinical and laboratory investigations.

3. To enhance candidate's ability for critical analysis and interpretation of results of clinical and laboratory investigations in patient management.

4. To empower candidates with relevant knowledge for cost effective and retional use of the more expensive and sophisticated clinical and laboratory investigations in patient management

Modalities:

1. Interactive lectures, demonstations, learning through discussion of case scenatrious.

2. Senior accomplished and seasoned medical teachers, pathologists and clinicians shall be the Faculty.

Course Contents:

1. These include laboratory work-up in Sepsis for diagnosis and management towards rational use of antimicrobials;

2. Laboratory diagnosis in the management of Malaria.

3. Basic Electorcadiography in cardiac disease diagnosis, the arrhythmias, ischaemic heart disease and cardiac disease diagnosis, the arrhythmias ischaemic heart disease and cardiac arrest rhyms. Indications for ECHO, and its value addition to ECG.

4. Principles of Ultrasonography (USS, and the common patterns seen in/general/family practice

5. Techniqes in reading the simple X-R (Chest, Skeletal)

6. Laboratory Screening in Preventive Oncology and early cancer diagnosis in General Practice setting (Prostrate, Cervix, Breast, Liver, Colon) using Tumor markers and imaging (ultasonography, Mammogram)

7. Critical laboratory diagnostic tests in Diabetes Thyroid disease, and others.

8. Haematological: the blood picture, RBC indices in dignosis and classification of Anaemia, the haematological malignancies and the coagulopathies. Blood GROUP, Xmatch; HLA in health and disease, and application to paternity determination.

9.Enzymology and serology in diagnosis and treatment....Troponins, BNP, D-Dimer, and Autoantibodies.

10. Radiotherapy,chemotherapy and Counseling in the management of cancer disease.

11. Histological and cytological investigatios, Foresic Medicine in the inversigation Forensic Medicine in the investigation of assaults and parental disputes

12. Autopsy, Death certificates

13. Legal implications arising from under-investigation/misinterpretation

14. Radio-diagnosis including CT and MRI. The basis, indications and applicaility in general/family practice.

15. The EEG, its basis, indications and the common practice.

Certificates will be issued to participants at the end of the course It will attract CME credit units by the Medical and Dental council of Nigeria (MDCN)

Mode: Non-Residential

Prof. A.Akinsola,FMCP

Chairman Continuing Medical Education Committee

[email protected]

Course Coordinator

08051304584, 0803560447

Prof. O.A.Atoyebi, FMCs

College Registrar

[email protected]

01-2913110

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