Awarded with
1 CPD HOURS
This online ME/CFS CPD module will challenge your clinical knowledge and patient management as a Healthcare Professional.
This CPD module has been written by medical experts in their field, ensuring you receive the highest quality questions available.
Receive further reading and a full explanation of answers to ensure your knowledge and understanding is in line with current guidelines.
View peer responses, reflect using our online notes system and benefit from unlimited resits to keep your clinical knowledge up-to-date.
Learn around your busy schedule by accessing this module whenever and wherever you’d like - all you need is an internet connection!
On successful completion of this module, you’ll be awarded with a downloadable 1 hour CPD Certificate to include in your portfolio.
"Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a common and severe complex multisystem disease with many sufferers waiting years for a diagnosis. The narrative and education to date have neither aligned with the patient experience of this illness nor communicated the emerging biomedical evidence.
Following the coronavirus pandemic thousands of people will know how severe and debilitating the symptoms of fatigue can be. Millions will understand the experience of being housebound, but for most these experiences will have lasted days, weeks or months.
Imagine feeling viral, exhausted, unwell and in pain, confined to your bed or house, lying in a dark room for years or even decades. The world has been shocked by the damage that viruses can do, and soon we will need to examine the consequences of chronic post-viral illness including ME/CFS.
In writing this module I have started from scratch. I have drawn on the international peer-reviewed literature and emerging international ME/CFS educational resources and have been fortunate to receive significant contributions from medical experts, scientists and patients.
I am humbled by the contributions of those who are severely ill and the effort and energy they have devoted to this collaboration. I recommend that you read the four pre-course peer-reviewed papers before embarking on the learning module. It would be of great help if you could take a minute to click through the pre-and post-course questionnaire so that more accurate information can be gathered to help develop and update future ME/CFS learning materials.
This module is just the start. There will be some who take time picking through the evidence and I welcome your opinion and future collaboration. For others, it may be an extra CPD point. For the patients that are recognised, believed and diagnosed because you have taken the time to do this learning module – it could be life-changing."
Dr Nina Muirhead BA(oxon) BMBCh(oxon) MRCS DOHNS MEd PGDipDerm
Dr Muirhead is also associated with or alumni of: Oxford University, Open University, Cardiff University, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians.
This online CPD module is designed to update and assess your clinical knowledge and patient management of the evolving international biomedical narrative on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. On successful completion of this module, you will have an improved understanding of:
Post-exertional malaise as a principal feature of ME/CFS
Main diagnostic features of ME/CFS
Commonly comorbid conditions related to ME/CFS
The importance of early and accurate diagnosis
The dangers of prescribing exercise for ME/CFS
Differential diagnoses that may emerge when considering and following a diagnosis of ME/CFS
Relevant blood tests and investigations excluding alternative diagnoses and establishing disease features relevant to ME/CFS
Evaluating the needs of individuals in formulating treatment plans and propose the need for the development of disease-specific pharmacological management
The importance of providing patients with relevant documentation in connection with applications for state benefits, and social and community care
The heterogeneous nature of the condition, common patterns of onset, fluctuating levels of ability, variability in presentation, course of illness and outcomes, and range of severity
Module Title & Completion Date
Complete All 10 Questions
Must Achieve 60% Pass Mark
1 Year Validity
Approved by the FPM
Accredited by UEMS
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