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This annual two-day weekend meeting is built around the current curriculum needs and experiences of junior doctors training for a career in geriatric medicine. This year's event was held on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February 2019 in Birmingham. Some speakers have kindly given permission to share their slides on the BGS website. Please scroll down to view and download these slides.

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SATURDAY 2 FEBRUARY

Saturday's programme featured sessions on comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in practice, inflammageing and movement disorders, with workshops on research, continence and sensory disturbance

Acute community geriatrics - Dr Stuart Hutchinson

Stuart Hutchinson is a consultant in Care of the Elderly in Wolverhampton. He has spent time in various jobs, covering acute hospitals, acute medicine, and most recently the community, with a special interest in care homes and deprescribing. He is currently Clinical Lead for the Wolverhampton Rapid Intervention Teams, which consists of himself, twenty nurses and more backup staff. The service has been nationally recognised.

Speaker's abstract

  • Scope of acute geriatric services
  • Problems, pitfalls and challenges of setting up a service
  • The future of acute community services

 

Shape of Training - Dr Robert Wears

Robert trained in Manchester and graduated in 1986 before moving to the West Midlands. Consultant Geriatrician at Solihull Hospital since 1994. Currently BGS VP (training and education), deputy chair SAC (geriatric medicine), director of quality for WM school of medicine and TPD geriatric medicine (West Midlands). Clinical interests include dementia, Parkinson’s disease and nutrition. Non clinical interests include puppy walking for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

Speaker's abstract

  • Update on the current state of the Shape of Training initiative
  • Highlighting the changes to geriatric medicine and internal medicine training
  • Update on the new geriatric medicine curriculum

Frailty and immunesenescence - Dr Daisy Wilson

Daisy Wilson graduated from the University of Birmingham medical school in 2008 and subsequently completed a number of junior posts around the West Midlands. She started her specialist training in geriatrics in 2013. From 2014 to 2017 she completed her PhD which primarily investigated immunesenescence in frail older adults but also focused upon pragmatic diagnosis of sarcopenia and frailty. In summer 2018 she started a NIHR funded clinical lecture post with the University of Birmingham and now splits her time between academic commitments and completing her specialist geriatric training. Ongoing research interests include the temporal relationship between frailty and sarcopenia and the role of immunesenescence in the development and propagation of frailty and sarcopenia.

SUNDAY 3 FEBRUARY

Sunday's programme featured a session on surgical liaison as well as workshops on musculoskeletal disease, falls prevention, leadership, SCE preparation, the new consultant and a debate about acute frailty services

Transient loss of consciousness - Dr Rhys Beynon

Dr Rhys Beynon is a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist with a special interest in Inherited Cardiac Conditions. Trained in Edinburgh, London, Manchester and Liverpool. Dr Beynon led a team of specialist nurses that won the BMJ Cardiology Team of the Year in 2017 for their work providing 24 hour acute Cardiology cover to the Emergency Department. Dr Beynon has undertaken postgraduate studies in Health Economics and has a passion for the Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) project.

Speaker abstract:

  • Management and investigation of transient loss of consciousness
  • The changing nature of TLOC across the age ranges
  • TLOC in the ED and the outpatient clinic
  • TLOC and DVLA

Falls prevention: The trouble with evidence - Dr Jonathan Treml

Jonathan Treml trained in Geriatric Medicine in London and the South East before taking up a consultant post in Birmingham in 2003. He is currently a consultant in Geriatric Medicine at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. His interests include orthogeriatrics, prevention and management of falls and fractures, end of life care, and delirium. He has been Co-Chair of the British Geriatrics Society Falls and Bone Health Section, and clinical lead of the National Audit of Falls and Bone Health.

Speaker abstract:

  • Summarise the evidence for falls and fracture prevention
  • Look at a couple of the most recent large studies of falls prevention
  • Explore the recent Cochrane reviews on falls prevention
  • Discuss the main gaps in the evidence and research opportunities

The New Consultant - Dr Lawrence Greensall

Dr Lawrence Greensall's workshop on the 'new consultant' covered:

  • Finishing up
  • Acting up
  • Job applications and interview preparation
  • The ‘Big Day’ (interview)
  • Transitioning
  • Personal challenges, other musings and ramblings

SCE preparation - Dr Helen Chamberlain

Dr Helen Chamberlain trained in London, and has been a Consultant Geriatrician in Birmingham since 2001. From 2016 she has been working at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Orthogeriatrics, with a special interest in Major Trauma. She is actively involved in teaching and training in Geriatric Medicine, speaking at the national Geriatrics for Juniors meeting in 2014, and organising two G4J Connect meetings in the West Midlands region as well. She was previously Specialty Lead for Geriatric Medicine at Birmingham University Medical School. She has been a member of the Question Writing Group for the Specialty Certificate in Geriatric Medicine since 2015. She is also a PACES examiner, as well as a keen teacher using Simulation Based Training.

Speaker's abstract
The SCE is probably the last exam you have to do in your training. Most UK trainees actually pass it without difficulty, so it’s really not something to get too worried about. That said, preparation is vital! In this session Helen will take you through the background of the exam, the anatomy of the best-of-five MCQ and the RCP house style. There will also be some sample questions, and opportunity for you to write some yourself in a workshop setting.

Mock Geriatrics SCE exam paper - questions

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Trainees Weekend 2019

This annual 2 day weekend meeting is built around the current curriculum needs and experiences of junior doctors training for a career in geriatric Medicine.

Trainees Council

Our Trainees group represent the ideas and opinions of trainees within the BGS. We provide a forum for the discussion of issues relevant to the trainees; engage with students and junior doctors interested in pursuing geriatric medicine as their specialty and encourage the effective training of future geriatricians.