Forthcoming June RSM meetings

Wednesday, 8 June 2011, 8.30am 5.00pm
Palliative Care Section
Clinically assisted nutrition and hydration at the end of life
A multidisciplinary perspective on decision-making in providing nutrition and hydration at the end of life, with presentations from legal, religious and medical experts. Topics will include: the role of the gastroenterologist; what help from pharmacology? - drug-nutrient interactions; and, a discussion of the implications of telling the truth, by Rev Peter Speck, honorary senior lecturer, Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London.

Monday, 13 June 2011, 10.00am 3.15pm
Patient Safety Section
How do we work together to promote safer practice in healthcare?
This meeting provides a forum for debate between clinical professionals, managers and lawyers. The Department of Health's Safer Care workstream will be discussed, along with outcomes and lessons to date by Dr Kevin Stewart, medical director Safer Care workstream. Philip Steer, emeritus professor in obstetrics and gynaecology at Imperial College will examine how best to achieve risk reduction in maternity care.

Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 9.00am 7.00pm
Paediatrics & Child Health Section
Children at risk
Legal, medical and public health experts will present the latest thinking in how to improve patient safety in paediatrics. Potential weak links in the screening chain will be examined by Dr David Elliman, co-director of the Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme and clinical lead for the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination Programme. Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, chairman of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence will present risk as a component of NICE's guidelines programme. Howard Bauchner, professor of paediatrics and public health, Boston University School of Medicine and recently appointed editor of JAMA, will provide the international perspective with paediatrics in the USA - a risky business.

Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 6.30 8.45pm
Plastic Surgery Section
What makes a beautiful face
The development of human facial aesthetics has evolved over thousands of years. More recently, scientific methods have been applied to selected populations which have shown that facial features around the world differ widely from classical norms and are heavily dependent on geography. Simon Eccles, consultant plastic surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital will discuss how the characteristics of facial aesthetics can be interpreted by plastic surgeons, and how this can assist them in patient consultations and selecting patients for surgery.

Thursday, 16 June 2011, 5.00 8.00pm
Maternity & the Newborn Forum
Improving maternity services
How can maternity services be best improved by learning from users poor experiences? Leading midwives and clinical directors will discuss innovative approaches from around the country. For example, Linda Birch, head of midwifery at Wirral University Teaching Hospital will explain how their maternity service has been changed to reflect the needs of local parents, and there will be a presentation about the work of volunteer breastfeeding supporters and doulas in East London.

Friday, 17 June 2011, 2.30 6.30pm
Obstetrics & Gynaecology Section
Odds and ends
From novel treatments for fibroids to tackling HRT myths, this international meeting will explore a wide range of topical issues in obstetrics and gynaecology. Professor Chris Georgiou, consultant at Wollomgomg Hospital, Australia will discuss the use of the balloon tamponade in the management of post-partum haemorrhage - a significant contributor to worldwide maternal morbidity and mortality. Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg, professor of physiology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm will present oxytocin: the hormone of love and its role in labour.

Saturday, 18 June 2011, 9.00am 4.00pm
Clinical Forensic & Legal Medicine Section
Trials and errors
How do current concepts of cognitive errors impact on our understanding of errors in medicine, forensic medicine and the justice system? This meeting will look at errors which have given rise to miscarriages of justice. It will look at the legal implications of fatal errors and the potential for error within the trial process itself. Professor Cheryl Thomas from the UCL Judicial Institute will be asking Are juries fair? and other presentations will focus on The trouble with paediatricians, prescribing errors made by medical trainees, and a report from the Fingerprint Inquiry in Scotland.

Friday, 24 June 2011, 8.30am 6.10pm
Cardiothoracic Section
The future of CT surgical training in the UK
The pace of change in cardiothoracic surgery has been immense. At the same time, there are now laws restricting working time and new methods of postgraduate education. How has this affected training in the UK, Europe and North America and what are this specialtys prospects for the future? This meeting will kick off with live debate This House believes we can train cardiothoracic surgeons within the rules of the European Working Time Directive (with President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr John Black, on the pro-side). There will also be a simulation of a CT emergency in an ICU and a presentation on patient safety concerns in CT training.

Monday, 27 June 2011, 8.30am 5.30pm
Black & Ethnic Minority Health Section
Sex, STIs and stigma: HIV-positive adolescents in the UK and Africa
What are the challenges facing those treating adolescents with HIV and are the challenges in the UK and in Africa significantly different? Experts from this country and from South Africa will address these questions, covering subjects including: management of the HIV adolescents journey from paediatric to adult services; pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis and circumcision and the impact of stigma on HIV adolescents.


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