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Essential Knowledge Update

Welcome to our first pilot of the Essential Knowledge Update (EKU) programme. Our first EKU Update consists of 20 items.  Most should be relevant to your practice – wherever you practise in the UK, whatever stage of your career you’re at, or if you work as a GP partner/principal or salaried GP or locum in an inner city or rural practice.

We appreciate you helping us to trial this pilot programme. Before you start on the 20 EKU Update items, read through the introduction section. You might want to look at the introductory section which presents the 20 clinical scenarios and self assessment questions to test your knowledge of the areas covered in this EKU Update programme. Then you could focus down on the EKU Update items where you have the most learning needs if you prefer, rather than working through the contents of the whole programme.’

Please click on introduction below to learn more.

Introduction

Contents:

What is EKU Update about?

Working through EKU Update

Contents of the EKU Update

Internal RCGP resources

External resources

The self assessment section

Learning Tools

EKU Update 1 Items:

Opioids for Chronic Lower Back Pain

Inhaled corticosteroids for the treatment of chronic asthma in children under the age of 12 years

Urinary tract infection in children

Deep Vein Thrombosis

The Mental Health Acts 1983 and 2007 (England and Wales)

Ezetimibe for the Treatment of Primary (Heterozygous-Familial and Non-Familial) Hypercholesterolaemia

Secondary Prevention in Primary and Secondary Care for Patients Following a Myocardial Infarction (MI)

Atopic eczema in children: management of atopic eczema in children from birth up to the age of 12 years

The Assessment of Pain in Older People

Bronchiolitis in Infants

Management of Cervical Cancer

Feverish illness in children: assessment and initial management in children younger than five years

The prevention, testing, treatment and management of hepatitis C in primary care

Varenicline for Smoking Cessation
The prevention, diagnosis and referral of melanoma of the skin

Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)

Suicide prevention in older people

Heavy Menstrual Bleeding (Menorrhagia)

Adolescent depression

Drug Misuse and Dependence

Authors

Professor Ruth Chambers

Dr Elizabeth Mearns

Acknowledgements

Professor Nigel Sparrow - Chairman PDB Group

Dr Chris Price & the PDB Virtual Group

Information Services

Professor Sean Hilton - Chairman EGP Steering Group

EKU Steering Group

Education and Professional Development Department

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EKU 1 May 2008