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Learning resources
Our learning resources from our CPD courses are free to use, as part of our mission to improve health and wellbeing in the South West and beyond.
Our experts are leaders in a wide range of fields, with a direct impact on public health. Please use our learning resources which our experts have created in a range of topical areas that link in with our programmes.
Dr Graham Watkinson, Consultant in Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School, and Senior Lecturer on the MSc Environment and Human Health.
Dr Watkinson shares his knowledge on Ebola – an unprecedented public health crisis. Dr Watkinson will talk about how the disease spreads, who is most at risk and what is in place to contain the outbreak.
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This free online course will introduce the topic of genomics, using the University of Exeter's research expertise in diabetes, to illustrate the clinical application of current genomics knowledge.
The first stage of this developing resource is a report on the news on Public Health commissioners, service providers and service users.
We celebrated the inaugural EBMA Assessment in Medical Education 2016 at the University of Exeter. Please take a look at some of the keynote presentations and symposia from the event.
Writer and historian Stella Tillyard pays tribute to the work of Prof Adam Zeman, on BBC Radio 4’s ‘A Point of View’. The 10 minute broadcast of this programme is available for listening again, or podcast download, at BBC iPlayer
Browse images from our one day event which focused on paediatric and adult allergy.
Waking Up to the Acute Heart Failure 2017 was a state-of-the-art update to all healthcare professionals involved in the care of people with heart failure. Organised by Dr Andrew Ludman from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Owais Dar from the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, it focused on acute and hospitalised heart failure and covered the issues which affect patients and professionals on a daily basis in all areas of the hospital.
Watch video clips of the seminars and browse images from the event
Listen to Adam Zeman, Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology at the University of Exeter Medical School, on how amnesia leads to a loss of self and how the lives of two men, Peter and Marcus, have been affected by their lack of a past.
The 15 minute broadcast of this programme is available for listening again, or podcast download, at BBC iPlayer
Please take a look at the speaker presentations from this course.
- Julia Baptista - Basic Genetics
- Caroline Wright - Technologies and Ethics
- Sawsan khuri - Inheritance
- Claire Bethune - Clinical Immunodeficiency
- Fiona Copeland - Patient's Perspective
- Helen Parfrey - Interstitial Pneumonias
- Louise Wain - Genetic Determinants
- Exeter Expert Series - Respiratory Genomics brochure
Please take a look at the speaker presentations from this course
- Julia Baptista - Introduction to Genomic Medicine
- Andrew Parrish - Introduction to next generation sequencing (NGS)
- Claire Turner - Family stories to illustrtae inheritance
- Elijah R. Behr - Brugada Syndrome
- Elijah R. Behr - SADS and the Role of Molecular Autopsy
- Emma Baple - The 100,000 Genomes Project
- Exeter Expert Series - Cardiology Genomics
Please take a look at the speaker presentations from this course
Please take a look at the speaker presentations from this training course.
Please take a look at the speaker presentations.
- Tim Lenton - What is climate change?
- Nigel Acheson - can the NHS be made sustainable?
- Janet Richardson - Trying to turn an oil tanker
- Dan Bloomfield - A dose of nature - but will the medicine go down?
- Nick McAleer - Food sustainability - the road to a healthy sustainable diet
- Michael Depledge - Climate Change, Health and Wellbeing
- Despair, inertia or hope - Reverend Sheila Swarbrick
- Sue Goodfellow - Use it or lose it: what should we do with natural capital?
- Tony Norton - Cold comfort or too cold to handle?
- Martin Robson - Climate change, conflict and global security
- Waking up to Climate Change 2017 brochure
You can now listen to Michael Depledge's keynote presentation on Climate Change, Health and Wellbeing
Professor Keith Grint delivered The Romance of Leadership plenary to launch the new Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Leadership and Management at the University of Exeter Medical School.
- ''No More Heroes': Critical Perspectives on Leadership Romanticism
- You can now listen to Keith Grint's presentation - The Romance of Leadership
Professor Keith Grint and Dr Clare Holt delivered a masterclass for the launch of the PG Certificate in Healthcare Leadership and Management.
You can now listent to the plenary by Dr Jude Currivan here
Please take a look at the speaker presentations from the inaugural Exeter Sports Medicine Conference on 9-10 May 2018, Sandy Park, Exeter. You can now download the conference programme Exeter Sports Medicine Conference 2018 Handbook.
- Ben Wall - Nutritional Strategies to support rehabilitation from injury
- Lennard Funk - The Athlete's Shoulder
- Lesley McBride - Cervical Spine
- Mark Wilson - Building Resilience
- Prav Mathema - Living with the Lions
- Rob Barker-Davies - Management of Tendinopathy
- Sean Williams-Modelling the load-injury relationship
- Simon Kemp - Concussion: where are we now?
You can now listen to Associate Professor Marco Antonio de Carvalho Filho (University of Campinhas-Brazil/University of Groningen-The Netherlands) keynote presentation Fun +Learn: Social Media and Gamification. Fostering a Community of Practice of Students and Teachers delivered at the University of Exeter Medical School on 4th July 2018.
Please follow this link to the European Board of Medical Assessors' website to take a look at the keynote presentations from the inaugural Looking Ahead in Progress Testing Conference on 22nd June 2018 at the University of Exeter. You can now download the conference programme Looking Ahead in Progress Testing 2018 Conference Handbook.
- Tim Lenton - The multiple space and time scales of Gaia
- Mark Jackson - Cultures and environments of planetary health
- David Pencheon - A question of perspective.
- Richard Betts - Climate change and the Paris Agreement
- Andy Haines - Waking up to Planetary Health
- Mat White - Waking up to blue planetary health
- Tamara Galloway - Plastic pollution a planetary health issue
You can now download Waking up to Planetary Health Conference programme.
To listen to the recordings of the speakers' presentations at Waking up to Planetary Health, please visit this link.
Graphic Illustrator Eleanor Beer captured the big ideas and actions during the conference workshops discussions in this beautiful artwork. Click Waking up to Planetary Health 2018 artwork to see it!
The Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital Health Library has dedicated a section on Planetary Health on their website. Visit this link to access a selection of podcasts, articles, books and articles.
The speaker presentations are now available to view. Please click below.
Emma Clark-Vertebral fracture symptoms
Jill Griffin-Vertebral fracture identification
Karen Knapp-Clinical risk factors and diagnosis using DXA
Mary Brown-Osteoporosis treatments and adverse events
Susan Lanham-New-Nutrition and bone health
Vicky Stiles-Exercise to promote bone health
You can download the Osteoporosis Masterclass 2019 Programme.
Please see the slide presentations and audio files below (in order of appearance);
Please click here to see the Southwest Stroke Conference 2019 Programme
The Exeter Health Library at the Royal Devon& Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has put together a range of resources on Stroke Medicine. Please visit this link to access them.