COURSE PROGRAMME

This course is the first 2 days of an ongoing programme designed to give a rolling schedule of continuing medical education within the childhood epilepsies. The faculty includes paediatric neurologists, general paediatricians and a medical educationalist.

Day 1: An overview of the history, investigation, management and differential diagnosis of paroxysmal events. It is considered an essential component of the programme. The sessions should be lively and enjoyable. For those who qualified prior to the days of communication skills training, there will be the chance to role-play taking a history with trained actors! For the less brave there will also be workshops around common clinical problems, a debate as well as didactic sessions.

Day 2: A closer review of paroxysmal episodes and epilepsies presenting in early childhood. Subsequent days are planned for 2007 onwards and will be structured around mid / late childhood epilepsies and difficulties in their management. The BPNA epilepsy training aims to provide on going medical education. It is hoped that the same courses will eventually be run in other deaneries, aiding the development of managed clinical networks. For 36 participants only, it will be run in small workshops (up to 6 people), a debate and larger didactic sessions. There will be emphasis on video footage of paroxysmal events.

IS THIS COURSE SUITABLE FOR ME?

This Level 2 course is suitable if you are/do all the following:

• 1) Regularly review children with different epilepsies.
  
• 2) Interested in improving management through better history taking.
  
• 3) Aware of the difficulties diagnosing epilepsies, but would like help with differential diagnosis.
  
• 4) Regularly receive reports of investigations such as EEG, but would like to improve their yield.
  
• 5) Aware that there are many epilepsy syndromes, have a good idea of some syndromes and their relevant treatment, but would like to be updated in both classification and therapy.
• If this doesn’t sound like you, please see http://www.bpna.org.uk/pet for information on the Level 1 and Level 3 courses, which may be more appropriate.
  

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LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATION
The course is being held in Jury’s Inn, a comfortable three star hotel in the centre of Newcastle Upon Tyne. The hotel is walking distance from the train station, where there is a direct link to the airport.

BOOKING
There are 36 places on this course. Of these, 12 have been set aside for attendees who work locally.
If your booking will be delayed by waiting for your Trust to raise a cheque, please send your booking form with a note stating from whom we should expect to receive a cheque and their contact details. Please note that fees must be received in advance of the course.

Please complete the booking form below and send it by fax (including your credit/debit card details) or by post to:
BPNA Secretariat Bridge House
Harrow Road
Bolton
BL1 4NH
Tel: 01204 492888 Fax: 01204 493003
Please make cheques payable to ‘BPNA (PET 2 Course)’.
FURTHER INFORMATION
If you require any further information about this course, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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