MEDICINE IS BRILLIANT Professor Andrew Goddard
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MEDICINE IS BRILLIANT Rationale: 'The NHS is under pressure as never before, trainees and consultants are dispirited, and the future seems austere. What are the system levers and tools available to clinicians on the ground to turn this situation around? Professor Goddard will explore the background, the evidence for how the professions and individual clinicians can make a difference and why he believes 'Medicine is Brilliant'.’ Tuesday 28th May 2019 Hosted: Lecture Theatre, Conquest Education Centre with video conferencing to Lecture Theatre, EDGH Postgraduate Centre For further details please contact Dr Umesh Dashora, Regional Adviser, RCPL We take great pleasure in welcoming Professor Andrew Goddard Professor Andrew Goddard Biography. Professor Goddard qualified at Cambridge in 1990. After gaining an MD from Cambridge University he trained in Nottingham and was appointed as a consultant physician and gastroenterologist in Derby in 2001. His main clinical and research interests are bowel cancer screening, H. pylori, iron deficiency anaemia and inflammatory bowel disease. He was director of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Medical Workforce Unit for five years until being appointed RCP Registrar in 2014. In this role, he oversaw professional and clinical affairs, both in the UK and internationally. His main policy areas were workforce, healthcare funding, the future of general medicine, the medical registrar and ‘keeping medicine brilliant’. In 2018 he was elected the 121st RCP President, the youngest for 400 years and first from the East Midlands. His priorities as President are the three Ws – workforce, wellbeing and worldwide. He continues in clinical practice including being on-call at weekends, as well as continuing in clinical research. He strongly believes that medicine is brilliant Evening Webstreaming – RCP Teach-ins / RCPE Evening Medical Updates 2019 The Education Centres at Conquest and EDGH now webstream these evening events. Open to all core trainees, hospital doctors, GPs, nurses, other health professionals and medical students. They are free of charge, no need to book, but you will be asked to register on the evening. RCP approved CPD certificates (2 CPD points) will be issued to those who attend. Tue 5 February 7pm – 9pm RCP Cardiology Tue 26 February 6.30pm – 8.15pm RCPE Vomiting / Nausea Tue 5 March 7pm – 9pm RCP Respiratory Tue 19 March 6.30pm – 8.15pm RCPE Falls Tue 2 April 7pm – 9pm RCP Rheumatology Tue 30 April 6.30pm – 8.15pm RCPE Palliative Care Management Tue 7 May 7pm – 9pm RCP Oncology Tue 28 May 6.30pm – 8.15pm RCPE Abdominal Pain Tue 4 June 7pm – 9pm RCP Genetics Tue 25 June 6.30pm – 8.15pm RCPE Poisoning Tue 2 July 7pm – 9pm RCP Renal Medicine Tue 1 October 7pm – 9pm RCP Dermatology Tue 5 November 7pm – 9pm RCP Obstetric Medicine Tue 3 December 7pm – 9pm RCP Haematology For further details contact: Dr Umesh Dashora (Conquest) Regional Adviser, RCP London and Edinburgh [email protected] Dr Sathianathan Panthakalam (EDGH) [email protected] Administrator: Andy Stretton Events Technician [email protected] .