Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Silverston P

University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich, United Kingdom

Biography

Visiting Professor of Primary Care in the School of Health Sciences at The University of Suffolk. As Senior Lecturer in Clinical Assessment & Minor Illness Teaching at ARU & Director of Primary Care Education at the Postgraduate Medical Institute, I developed teaching programmes for GPStR's, nurses & Specialist Paramedics & the Safer Consulting in Minor Illness Programme for community pharmacists. Covering topics as diverse as Safer Consulting, diagnostic uncertainty & diagnostic error, safety-netting, international EMS systems, methods of warming cold IV fluids, pulse oximetry in prehospital & primary care & head lice!

Publications

Teaching Patient-Centered Safety-Netting in Primary Care

In primary care, it is common for patients to present during the early stages of illness with non-specific symptoms, at which time the positive clinical findings in the history and examination that enable a clinician to make a firm diagnosis, or to discriminate between a serious and minor illness, may not have developed. Where diagnostic uncertaint... Read More»

Silverston P

Review Article: J Community Med Health Educ 6:447

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000447

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