Regional Training Day Geriatric Medicine ST3+ FALLS & SYNCOPE

FALLS & SYNCOPE

09:30 – 10:00       Coffee & Registration

 

10:00 -  11:00       Review of relevant national & international publications, guidelines and audit.  Dr Katie Rainey

11:00 -  11:45       Gait assessment and role of physio in falls prevention.   Will Carr

 

11:45 -  12:05       Coffee

 

12:05 -  13:00       Reducing falls in-hospital     Dr Helen Gentles

 

13:00 – 14:00       Lunch  (sponsored)

 

14:00 – 15:00       Syncope      Dr Arnold Deering

 

15:00 -  16:30       Getting a Consultant Job…. the view from the management end of the table – an associate medical director’s observations on getting THE JOB’   Dr Peter Fletcher

 

                             ……….and surviving once you’ve got it!

                                                          Drs Helen Alexander & Gentles