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Managing COVID-19 in General Practice
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4 h
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- 2 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
- Starts on April 5, 2020
- Ends on April 29, 2020
Course details
Syllabus
The course will cover what you need to know and what you need to do in relation to the Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in primary care. Topics we will cover include:
- Background of COVID-19
- Current situation in the UK
- When to suspect COVID-19 infection in primary care
- Safe assessment of suspected cases
- Infection prevention and control
- Management of acutely unwell patients
- Management of those with mild symptoms in home isolation
- Consultation tips and advice on keeping your practice running safely
Prerequisite
This course is designed for front-line clinicians, healthcare workers and professionals who are dealing with the large volume of patients in the current COVID-19 pandemic within the UK primary care.
This course will also be relevant to healthcare practitioners around the globe, though the course will be based around guidance by UK public health bodies.
Instructors
Mohammad Razai
Academic clinical fellow in primary care at the Population Health Research Institute, St George's University of London
Lucia M
Dr. Lucia Magee currently works as an Academic Clinical Fellow in Population Health and a GP registrar in South-West London.
Shamez Ladhani
Dr Shamez Ladhani is a paediatric infectious diseases consultant at St. George's Hospital, London, and a consultant epidemiologist at Public Health England.
Pippa Oakeshott
Pippa Oakeshott is a professor of general practice at the Population Health Research Insitute at St George's University of London. She is also an inner city GP.
Editor
St George’s is the UK’s only university dedicated to medical and health sciences education, training and research.
The university provides a world-class multi-professional health sciences education that equips graduates to meet today’s healthcare needs through relevant scientific research, clinical excellence, strong interpersonal skills and team-based working. Sharing a clinical environment with a major London teaching hospital, its innovative approach to education results in well-rounded, highly skilled clinicians, scientists, and health and social care professionals.
St George’s has more than 250 years of excellence and innovation in research and education resulting in groundbreaking advances in medicine and healthcare. Alumni include Edward Jenner, John Hunter, Muriel Powell and Patrick Steptoe. The university has three research institutes focus on biomedical and scientific discovery, advancing the prevention and treatment of disease in the fields of population health, heart disease and infection - three of the greatest challenges to global health in the 21st century.
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.
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