OxPal Emergency Medicine Lecture Series

Image by Claire Dela Cruz from Pixabay
Image by Claire Dela Cruz from Pixabay

A survey conducted by OxPal of medical students across Palestinian medical schools showed that Emergency Medicine was the most requested topic for supplementary teaching from Oxford clinicians. Importantly a survey of Palestinian junior doctors also showed that Emergency Medicine was the specialty they felt they needed more teaching on before graduating.

A group of University of Oxford Emergency Medicine clinicians delivered a series of 10 lectures (plus 2 revision sessions) covering most of the key aspects of emergency medicine, running from October 2020 – December 2020.


Lecture topics:

  1. Human Factors & A-E Assessment of the Acutely Unwell Patient
  2. The Hypotensive Patient
  3. Acute Chest Pain
  4. Acute Breathlessness
  5. An Acute Abdomen
  6. Emergency Psychiatric Presentations
  7. Trauma & Burns
  8. Mid-term Quiz
  9. Acute Kidney Injury
  10. Endocrine Emergencies
  11. Disordered Consciousness
  12. Revision & Discussion

Recordings of these lectures are available on our Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXpoOZ_m-gZevJeQNreZQRf9knInT1Fp9


VIRTUAL REALITY

During this lecture series we also teamed up with the Oxford Medical Simulations team (https://oxfordmedicalsimulation.com/) to provide a set of VR simulations related to each lecture in which participants could assess, diagnose and treat patients with the OMS’ interdisciplinary team against the clock in different scenarios.