Dr Simon Curtis
Simon is the Medical Director of NB Medical Education. He is also a partner at a training practice in central Oxford and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Oxford University, and he has previously worked as a GP in Australia.
Join session #1 of the Hot Topics International GP Update for 2023. This engaging 90 minute session will give you the latest on diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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Keep up to date with all the latest developments in general practice. Presented by leading GP educators, this course is case based and includes access to the 2024 reference book.
Stay current with this Hot Topics session on women's health, offering Australian GPs the latest evidence-based updates to enhance patient care in women's health.
Osteoarthritis is by far and away the most common form of arthritis in Australia.
One of the highlights of my week is my piano lesson, now by Zoom of course, with my teacher John. I took up piano at the age of 55, never having had a music lesson in my life...
This Hot Topics Keep it Simple Summary is a guide to evidence based medicine in 2020, straight from our UK partners, NB Medical.
Find out more about Simon, co-founder of the Hot Topics course internationally in his 'Out of Office' before seeing him in person at Hot Topics Australia.
I’ve been asked this question twice in the last month. Once by a 70 year old patient who has taken up smoking weed to control her neuropathic pain, let’s call her ‘Rachel’. And the other a young man aged 26 (Sean) who is smoking cannabis to help control his chronic anxiety.
Eating disorders are truly holistic, affecting all biopsychosocial dimensions of health so we need to keep an open mind and our antennae alert in a wide variety of clinical scenarios in General Practice.
Susan is newly pregnant. She had some thyroid tests done earlier this year and was diagnosed with subclinical hypothyroidism. Her TSH was 6 mIU/ml with a normal thyroxine and negative anti thyroid antibodies. She has read in a forum online that she needs to be treated with thyroxine but she is worried about taking medication when pregnant. What do you advise her?
This month has seen the publication of new European Hypertension Guidelines 2018 produced by the European Societies of Hypertension and Cardiology.
I started work as a GP in 1995 and was nearly burnt out as a GP before I’d barely started. I was overwhelmed. Not so much with the clinical workload but just the crushing burden of thinking ‘How am I supposed to know all this stuff?’
