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Chronic lower back pain - clinical fact sheet and MCQ
Chronic lower back pain is a leading cause of disability, often persisting without a clear pathology. Diagnosis is clinical, focusing on pain characteristics, psychological factors, and red flags. Update your knowledge on CLBP while earning EA and RP CPD with this FastTrack clinical fact sheet and MCQ
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Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease affecting any part of the GI tract. It has genetic and environmental triggers and presents with symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhoea, and weight loss. Diagnosis involves endoscopy and imaging. Management includes corticosteroids, biologics, immunomodulators, lifestyle changes, and psychological support. This FastTrack-CPD provides a clinical summary on the management of Crohn's disease with a quiz to apply your learning and receive CPD (RP and EA categories).
The Check-Up podcast by Medcast presents a 3-part series to support GPs to use pathology tests more effectively, and reduce the harms of non-rational test ordering.
Osteoarthritis is by far and away the most common form of arthritis in Australia.
The Check-Up podcast by Medcast presents this engaging & exciting 5-part series, discussing the importance of physical activity.
To help lessen the financial burden of keeping up with CPD, rural and remote health professionals (MMM 3-7) who would normally be required to travel considerable distances to attend courses, can access a range of state-based funding.
It's one thing for a medication to demonstrate an effect in the narrowly selected, hermetically sealed and artificially monitored setting of a clinical trial.
Q: What do fish and chips, Batman and Robin, and country and western music have in common?
Change seems to be the theme of 2020. In our region, as with many in Australia, it started with bushfires, before a jump to the left into ‘COVID Capers’.
Milo, aged 26, comes to see you with lateral knee pain. As GPs how do we diagnose, treat and manage this?