Medical Update for Psychiatry
Conference from Infomed November 2007 - London
Relevance to psychiatry **
Value for Money *
Up to date **
***** = Excellent, **** = Very Good, *** = Average, ** = Poor, *=Very poor
The key problems for Infomed at this conference involved both definition and delivery. The conference as advertise suggested that psychiatrist could expect some updating of their medical knowledge. This would imply that those aspects of medicine that had moved forward since the psychiatrists had trained would be in some way updated. Sadly, not many of the lectures offered this. The cardiology lecture aside the other elements simply did not offer an overview of how subspecialities of medicine had advanced. The neurology offering was an amiable presentation of how to do a brief neurological examination. This might be termed revision, but surely could never be mistaken for an update! The perinatal psychiatry talk was more about the NICE guidelines. How can NICE guidelines be confused with an advance in medicine? Also on offer during this session were definitions of postnatal depression and puerperal psychosis. Presenting this sort of material as an update in medicine suggest that the organisers have not really considered their audience or what they should offer them. The talk on the pitfalls of confidentiality and data protection was relevant to psychiatry, but not specifically a 'medical update'. During the endocrinology lecture the audience was told that endocrinologists are more than are no more than 'sugar doctors' as the talk focused entirely on diabetes mellitus. Where was any cutting edge material on the rest of endocrinology.
Leaving definitions aside additional problems for Infomed occurred when one speaker managed to be more than 30 minutes late for his presentation and when one topic 'occupational health' mysteriously disappeared altogether.
The premise for the conference is fine, but on this showing someone else somewhere else should organise a true medical update for psychiatrists.
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