Ch ch changes!

Following a few discussions on twitter, it seems that by defining a topic each week, and basing the case on that, we're missing a really vital learning point - how to work out what the diagnosis is, based purely on presentation. After all, patients won't tell you they're an endocrine patient, and neither will you get told this in finals!

So, from next week (19th November onwards), instead of being "neurology" or "trauma" weeks, the weeks' topics will become "An approach to the patient with...."to try and help us all think outside specific systems, and learn the presentations of a variety of conditions. Fingers crossed this is another step to improving twitfrg!

W/C 29th October 2012 - Renal Medicine

Renal Medicine #twitfrg transcript:

http://storify.com/twitfrg/01-11-2012-renal-medicine

Case study, investigations and management coming soon....

W/C 22nd October 2012 Haematology Revision Notes

Apologies for the delay. Notes are for the discussion tomorrow at 8pm. Please join in and don't forget to use the hashtag (#twitfrg).

PDF Haematology Notes

Word Haematology Notes

You don't have to read the notes to join in the discussion, so please spread the word about it!

W/C 15th October 2012 #twitfrg Transcript

Storify link for the transcript of the discussion (if you have a protected account, your tweets probably won't show up - sorry!)

http://storify.com/twitfrg/18-10-2012-rheumatology

Schedule for Revision Notes

Here's the list of topics we're going to cover over the next few weeks. If you want to help write notes for us or want to suggest other topics, please get in touch via twitter or email (see the Contact Us page).

W/C 22nd October       Haematology
W/C 29th October        Renal medicine
W/C 5th November      Endocrinology
W/C 12th November    Obstetrics & Gynaecology
W/C 19th November    Neurology
W/C 26th November    Acute Medicine (Life on the wards, ward emergencies)
W/C 3rd December      General Surgery
W/C 10th December    Trauma & Orthopaedics