Past Socrates Events

Shoehorn Seminars

Facilitated Q&A sessions for GPs, shoe-horned into the middle of the day, with lunch. Previous topics have included:

Medical Emergencies        
Diabetes                             
G.I. Problems                    
Care of the Elderly
Adult Mental Health
Cardiology
Surgical Emergencies        

Allowed full attention to discussion. Very useful. Can use information directly in surgery.  More of the same, please.

Effective Practice Meetings

Multi-professional all-day workshop for GPs and Practice Managers. Morning: Running a business meeting. Afternoon: Successful Education Meetings.

Thought provoking and helpful.  Will enable me to share knowledge from today. Very good session.

Third Thursday GP Meetings

Facilitated Q&A sessions with an expert in the field. These are completely interactive and built on participant questions on the day. Previous topics have included:

Emergencies                         
Rheumatology                      
Psychiatry                             
COPD
Neurology
Urology
Gynae & HRT
Lipids                                   

Far more valuable than conventional meetings. Sort of questions I wanted answered! Good on odd symptoms. Sense of humour. More please.

Workshops

Psychological Interventions in the Consultation – A full day looking at what Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Neurolinguistic Programming and Brief Intervention Therapy can offer the busy practitioner and the troubled patient.

Empowering, new skills to use.  Good tips on dealing with pts &
consultations.
More confidence in dealing with psych problems.
Wonderful for pts who feel stuck & are open to change.
Increased range of techniques for diff cases.

Helping Patients Make Risk-Based Choices - A full day looking at 'where patients are coming from' when discussing options for treatment or prevention.  Recent research, facts and figures, expert patient and group discussion, exploration of possible approaches and an examination of appropriate language, all help to build a toolkit to maximise understanding in this challenging area.

Very, very useful.  Please keep organising such sessions which are very refreshing and helpful.  Fantastic....