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Review of St George’s MediPACES Course

Duration:2 days
Price: £650
Overall Rating 4/5
Summary: Good course let down lack of practical history and ethics teaching and handouts.

History and Ethics

Poor, only gave spoken superficial advice and no exam practice.

Clinical

Good range of cases, helpful teaching 4-5 students/case there was not enough abdo or eyes but same on all courses, I felt this was better than Ealing. Course booklets were unfortunately useless.

Cases Seen

1. Opthalmoplegia and Grave’s disease
2. Fibrosing alveolitis with Rheumatoid arthritis
3. Mechanical mitral valve with leak
4. Turners syndrome with coarctation of the aorta and bicuspid aortic valve
5. mechanical mitral valve with leak
6. old TB with lobectomy
7. proliferative diabetic retinopathy with photocoagulation scars
8. aortic stenosis
9. bilateral APKD, fistula for renal replacement therapy
10. HOCM
11. diabetic retinopathy with photocoagulation scars and aortic regurgitation
12. VSD
13. Osteogenesis imperfecta, mechanical aortic and mitral valves
14. VSD
15. Systemic sclerosis and fibosing alveoilitis
16. Mixed aortic regurg and mitral regurg.
17. Fascio-scapulo humeral muscular dystrophy
18. Renal transplant with fistulas and short stature
19. Rheumatoids hands
20. myotonic dystrophy
21. mechanical mitral valve with leak and hyperthyroidism
22. tuberous sclerosis
23. rheumatoid arthritis
24. mixed aortic valve disease
25. ivedo reticularis with SLE
26. polycystic kidney disease with liver involvement pre-dialysis
27. cerebello-pontine angle tumour
28. spastic paraparesis.
29. Peripheral neuropathy
30. old polio, bilateral tendon release
31.  spastic paraperesis
32. Rheumatoid hands (subtle signs)
33.  mixed aortic and mitral valve disease
34. Acromegally
35. Aortic valve replacement with Marfans syndrome
36. Sarcoidosis: (Hepatosplenomegally, clubbing, arthropathy
37. mechanical aortic valve prosthesis
38. cerebellar syndrome – dysarthria, abnormal tandem walking
39.  leinfelters syndrome, VP shunt, Graves disease, hemiplegia
40. myelofibrosis: heptosplenomegally, polycythemia
41. Pulmonary stenosis following corrected tertalogy of Fallot
42. Kartageners syndrome, bronchiectasis and pneumenectomy
43. Mechanical aortic valve with leak
44. Rheumatoid hands, bilateral sympathectomy raynaulds.
45. Old polio with tendon release

Overall 4/5

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