Monash Medical Centre – Online Collaborative Teaching

Collaborative Teaching

Please register for the Monash Health Primary Education Network Online Tutorial Sessions with the link below. These hour-long tutorials are based around unpacking your responses to pre-determined SAQs on defined syllabus topics with either a Consultant Intensivist, or a Senior Trainee recently successful at the Primary Examination. Some sessions may include an unseen SAQ written to time during the session. The topic, facilitator, and their contact details are given below. The SAQs will be sent on registration.
Topic: Endocrine and obstetrics
Facilitator: Neil Glassford
Contact Email: neil.glassford2@monashhealth.org

SAQs:

1. Describe the functions of the placenta (80% marks). Outline the determinants of placental blood flow (20% marks).
2. Compare and contrast the physiological changes in the cardiovascular system in pregnancy at term and morbid obesity (BMI > 30).
3. Outline the influence of pregnancy on pharmacokinetics.
4. Classify the oral hypoglycaemic drugs (20% marks); include their mechanism of action (40% marks) and their most significant side effects (40% marks).
5. Outline the role of the hypothalamus.