Welcome to the GUH AMU teaching and learning site.
Formal teaching
Teaching is on every Tuesday at 0800-0900 in the CSI, room 2001. The session is attended by NCHDs, ANPs, consultants, and anyone else from the AMU team who would like to come. Please be on time.
The hour is split thus:
0800-0830: Classic cases: best clinical cases from last week.
Each person brings a case each week, of which three will be selected at random. The presentation is done at the whiteboard. Ten minutes are allowed for presentation and discussion of each case. Present a brief vignette (history and physical), then ask for a differential diagnosis from the audience, then detail the results of any investigations and the outcome of the clinical case. Mention what guidelines you used and give a link to evidence that people can read at their leisure. You'll be on a clock. No PowerPoint. None. Whatsoever.
0830-0850: What works when?
Ten minutes on treatments in specific conditions that actually have a mortality benefit (ARR and NNT), and ten on investigations that actually work (positive LR). This is done on a rotating basis. See the attached schedule.
The person responsible for resourcing the topic session will provide the relevant learning materials and post it on this website the Friday in advance. Everyone will have a chance to read it and then discuss further in-session. This is a 'flipped' learning model.
0850-0900: Quick QI
Updates on QI ongoing around the department.
Teaching on the floor
This happens on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays after the midday huddle and involves a brief discussion of the most educationally interesting case on the floor. Again, a brief presentation followed by discussion of the differential diagnosis, further investigation and management. The session should last about 15 minutes and is led by the consultant of the day.
Feel free to include papers, literature reviews, guidelines, links to videos and podcasts, and whatever else you think might be useful.
The topics assigned are mapped to the MRCPI and UK AIM curricula. The latter is most useful for the AMU environment as it is predominantly symptom-based, as opposed to system based.
The schedule is not set in stone. If you want to swap sessions, or are on leave, let me know and we can move things around.
