Short Courses

Tuesday 15th October, 6:30pm – 8:30pm

The NIPC are delighted to offer this free, online training and education programme, designed for healthcare professionals. The course aims to further participants’ understanding of how to provide an integrated approach to managing patients with cardiometabolic based chronic disease and will cover the latest evidence in terms of behavioural approaches, pharmacotherapy, surgery, multidisciplinary team working and the optimal patient pathway.

The course begins with a live online introductory session by an interactive panel followed by 4 self-paced online modules and culminates with a live online consolidation session.

Course Leader: Dr. Susan Connolly Consultant Cardiologist, Integrated Care, University Hospital Galway and CHO2 West.

This activity/event was funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim-Lilly Alliance. The Boehringer-Lilly Alliance has no influence over the agenda, contents, selection of speakers or the organisation of the session.

Application Deadline 13th September

Tuesday, 22nd October, 6:30 – 8:30pm

The NIPC are delighted to offer this free, online training and education programme, designed for healthcare professionals in Ireland. The course covers the core knowledge and skills to deliver evidence-based obesity management.

Topics include:

• The ASOI Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Understanding obesity and the current situation in Ireland
• Obesity Stigma & Patient perspectives
• Obesity assessment in primary care
• Obesity treatment in primary care
• Medical nutritional therapy
• Physical activity and movement
• Psychological and Behavioural Interventions
• Treatments in obesity management
• Common complications of obesity and their management

The course begins with a live online introductory session, followed by 8 self-paced online modules that are completed over 3 months, and culminates with a live online interactive consolidation session.

Application Deadline: 27th September

Saturday 28th September, 9:00am – 1:00pm

This course addresses the needs of primary care nurses and doctors, hospital-based nurses, private and public, paramedics and other allied health professionals who encounter ECG monitoring and traces. It aims to be as interactive as possible, with participants encouraged to bring along ECGs for discussion. The course assumes no knowledge of ECG and is an excellent foundation course in ECG and rhythm recognition.

Course content includes:

• Ventricular arrhythmias such as ventricular tachycardiac
• Atrial arrhythmias such as atrial fibrilation
• Ischaemia and acute myocardial infarction
• SVTs

This is a virtual ECG workshop, where participants will partake in all aspects of the workshop online.

Course Format:

• Online Learning: (Approx. 4 hours) which can be carried out in your own time in the 2 weeks prior to the workshop.
• Online Interactive workshops: A half day of real-time sessions.