DundeeChest 3.0

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Welcome to week 3. Last week seemed to go pretty well – I got very wet in Barcelona, and Richard managed to keep things moving along nicely back here in Beanoland. I understand that one tutor did not turn up for a ward based session, but this has been re-arranged for this week. The ITA session on spirometry has drawn some positive feedback, along with the very well received Smoking Cessation and Pulmonary Rehabilitation sessions.

Richard’s ABG sessions were the first step on a long journey for every second year – ABG interpretation continues to be complex, but you all now have a solid grounding on which to base your future work.

The core clinical problems session encouraged, and disappointed me. Those who did stay for the whole session sere able to work through the concepts of CCPs, and then specifics of the CCPs in the respiratory block. Half of the year chose to leave the session half way through – I hope you all found something productive to do for that hour.

This week we have already had Dr France’s always well received lung cancer lectures, and the patient journey session with Dr Goudie. The DVD is available to take home, if anyone wants it (Come down to my office, where my secretary can burn you a disc!)

Later in the week will be the brand new MDT sessions, and a mixed bag of lectures on pleural disease, interstitial lung disease, and sleep apnoea. The lectures are up online to browse through now.

All being well, I’ll see you for the pleural disease lecture on Thursday.

We have discovered that the PCs in the first IT suite need to have their software upgraded to the latest version of Flash, to enable the ITA material to function correctly. The IT people are carrying out the upgrade tomorrow morning.

Sorry to those who have run into problems with the flash videos, you should be able to visit them after tomorrow morning, whenever you wish.

2nd year group A4’s practising medicine session on Monday 13th September, with Miss J Smith, has had to be postponed – Miss Smith is not able to make this session due to clinical commitments. I am trying to organise an alternative session for group A4 later in the block.

Other things are available on Monday afternoon – see the timetable for further details, but you can always come along to:

Bronchoscopy List – East Block
Dr Fardon’s Clinic – East Block
Dr France’s Clinic – East block
Ward work – Ward 3
Pulmonary Function Suite – East Block

Feel free to come along to any of these things, and I will sort out an alternative practising medicine session for you.

With less than a week to go before the start of the phase 2 program, DundeeChest is starting to warm up a wee bit. Last week saw over a thousand hits to the site from over 300 different individuals, so perhaps some of the new second year are getting in a bit of early work?

Today we have nearly completed the transfer of all the lectures on to the calendar for download prior to the lectures, and we’re working on getting the formative assessments put up on the site, or links put up to assessments already on BlackBoard.

If you want to get ahead, you can always check out the links section of the site, and see what else is out there. My recommendation for this week is the Podmedics podcast available for download on iTunes. This month they have been concentrating on respiratory medicine, with a 105 minute lecture broken up into smaller digestible segments on CXRs, ABGs, Spirometry, and some other stuff.

If you find anything useful out there, post it up here, and I’ll check it out, and put it on the site.

See you all on Monday.

The Scottish Thoracic Society webpages have recently received a comprehensive overhaul. The new site should be easier to navigate, and give a more clear idea of what’s going on in the society.

The latest entry is the training program for the March 2010 session, on Lung Cancer in Stobhill.

Visit the STS site to learn more

I just need a second post to test the system!

Another year, another go at making the website more functional and more appealing to you, the reader.

This means a new hosting service; a dedicated lifelone URL; a switch to WordPress self hosting; and trying out new themes. This one is attractive, for sure, but it doesn’t handle drop down menus. It does have this lovely featured post bar at the top though. The theme is called Nofelia.

We’ll see.