Patient-Centred Care

1. An Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine

• Understand what is meant by Lifestyle Medicine (clinical care that helps people change their habits to prevent and manage long-term conditions) and the models that help explain mental health, nutrition and exercise.

2. Childhood Immunisations

• Understand how a vaccine works
• Understand the types of vaccines
• Be able to discuss the safety of vaccines with patients using evidence-based (based on good research) information
• Know the childhood vaccination schedule in the UK
• Understand the barriers and common patient concerns with vaccines

3. Sepsis in Paediatrics

• Be able to identify sepsis early in children and young people (paediatric patients)
• Be aware of the basic initial management of sepsis in paediatric patients

• Be able to recognise indicators of abuse, neglect and exploitation (using a child for gain or advantage, for example in sexual or criminal exploitation)
• Be able to apply the safeguarding assessment framework (the child's developmental needs, the capacity of parents or carers, and family and environmental factors)
• Be able to outline immediate actions: safety, documentation and referral pathways (who to tell and how, such as the safeguarding lead or local authority children's social care)

• Be able to describe key physiological (normal body function) changes of ageing across organ systems
• Be able to distinguish normal ageing from pathology and frailty syndromes. Frailty is reduced reserve that leaves older people vulnerable to illness. The syndromes are common age-related problems such as falls and delirium (sudden confusion).
• Be able to explain how ageing affects pharmacology (how drugs act and how the body handles them) and prescribing decisions

• Be able to take a structured falls history (before, during and after)
• Be able to identify intrinsic (within the person, for example poor balance) and extrinsic (in their surroundings, for example loose rugs) risk factors and reversible causes
• Be able to outline investigations, management and prevention strategies

• Be able to describe key drivers of morbidity and mortality in men, especially cardiovascular risk
• Be able to recognise common male mental health presentations (the ways mental health problems show themselves in men) and barriers to help-seeking (what stops men asking for support)
• Be able to assess erectile dysfunction (difficulty getting or keeping an erection) and outline initial management options

• Be able to define palliative care and identify appropriate timing for referral
• Be able to describe holistic assessment and the role of the multidisciplinary team (the different professionals who work together to care for the patient)
• Be able to outline advance care planning (deciding in advance what care you want if you later cannot decide for yourself) and the key decision-making documents in England and Wales. An advance statement records your wishes. An advance decision refuses specific treatments. A lasting power of attorney for health and welfare names someone to make care decisions for you.