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The Wessex Region Spring Meeting 2021 was held on 27 May 2021
The Older Person Whisperer's take on coping and responsibility when looking after a person with Parkinson's Disease
Medical Education Terminology relating to the education of specialist trainees, catalogued by the Vice President for Education of the British Geriatrics Society
Focus on Physicians 2017-18 is the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow’s most recent census on the consultant physician and higher specialty trainee workforce in the UK.
FAQs for doctors in training regarding COVID-19 disruption to their progression.
In a pioneering step, Wales has developed a comprehensive core curriculum of competencies for intermediate care for SpRs in geriatric medicine. While designed for SpRs in Wales, the curriculum has UK-wide relevance.
Physicians practising in general internal medicine (GIM) commonly manage illness in patients who may be in the last phase of their lives. It is therefore an important part of the specialist training programme to manage patient and family involvement.
The Older Person Whisperer's series of comic presentations on the life of a geriatrician
Joint activities such as art, sewing, knitting, cooking or growing plants help relationships grow between the generations.
This Practice Question has been published with the kind permission of the Royal College of Nursing.
This report examines the geriatrician workforce needed to provide high-quality care for an ageing population with increasingly complex needs.
Live in Edinburgh and online 17-19 May. Click here to register, view the programme and access the live stream.
BGS Wessex region will be hosting a virtual networking meeting, consisting of key note speeches and mini updates. Areas will include innovation and research updates, service development and patient feedback.
We offer a limited number of grants of up to £500 to medical students to enable them to make use of their elective period for a project concerned with health or health care in old age either in the UK or abroad.
There has never been a better time to register for the BGS Spring Meeting.
Flexible registration options (hybrid, in person, online) will enable us all to come together in Birmingham, 22-24 May, to ‘Refresh Relax and Refocus’ and we can’t wait to see you!
Are you still undecided about attending the BGS Spring Meeting? Here are 10 reasons to register right now...
They say if you want to know what’s going on you should ‘follow the money’. By joining this committee, you will soon learn how costly conferences are to run and how much IT support really costs.
Summary of Training in Geriatric Medicine in Northern Ireland
When I started my quality improvement (QI) project over the summer, I had no idea about the steep learning curve I was about to climb. I had an aim to improve recognition of frailty on the general surgical ward in order to increase appropriate referrals to the Frailty Liaison Team.
Reflecting on my education over the last few years, I think I may have learned most from Twitter. There is a seriously erudite group of geriatricians dropping pearls of wisdom there, of which Dr Henry Woodford is just one.
I am over the moon to be awarded the BGS Rising Star Award for Research 2021. Having joined the BGS as an undergraduate student, the Society has been omnipresent throughout my clinical and academic development.
It was of course an honour to receive the BGS Rising Star award, five years ago in 2017. An unexpected benefit of this was the photograph taken of the then President Dr Eileen Burns, presenting me with the award, which now appears regularly as a stock photo in BGS comms.