LibGuides: Medical Education Caboolture: COVID-19

Looking after yourself

MN Covid Support Hotline

Learning packages

Yale: The science of well-being
A fully holistic approach to analysing your personal mental health and applying strategies to optimise your coping mechanisms.
Required to make an account but free course unless you want the certificate for some reason
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In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.
Future Learn - Thrive in trying times
An online course to bolster your resilience to the stresses of COVID life
Workforce resiliency series - Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
Eerily created in 2008, this module will provide some information for issues you may come across in the COVID-era, such as dealing with the worried well, developing personal resilience and protecting yourself psychologically when the adrenaline washes out.
Also a bunch of administration/management stuff you can just click through.
Requires a free account
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Stress infiltrates our lives every day and has effects beyond what we usually realize. This 45-minute online course is part three of the Workforce Resiliency series, which provides information about individual and organizational resiliency in the face of stress, emergencies, and disasters. In this final instalment, During and After a Disaster, details steps that you and your organization can take to maintain and restore resiliency during and after a disaster or emergency.

An open letter to interns in the time of COVID-19

Tips for ward call

At the beginning of your ward call shift, phone the COVID-19 ward, explain that to avoid unnecessary PPE use you are going to come and do all their jobs in one visit, and together decide on a time when this should happen.
Wear scrubs. They're easier to change in and out of for COVID areas and if you're lucky enough to sleep overnight you'll be much more comfortable.

Education resources

Australian Government COVID-19 training
Australian Government's COVID-19 starter pack that requires a free account. Includes everything you'll need to know about working in healthcare during the pandemic.
Contains a myth busting section which will be invaluable for reassuring patients and winning arguments on Facebook.
Also contains the world's easiest quiz. Do it and feel like a genius
Metro North COVID-19
Metro North's up to date information on COVID-19 information, resources and news.
John Hopkins COVID tracker
If you're a statistics nerd this worldwide COVID tracker is updated in real time and gives a number of options for viewing every known COVID case and death in the world and trend data for every country you can think of.
Also useful for stoking anxiety
COVID-19 in Australia
An Australian specific page currently updating daily. Useful for winning arguments with your American friends and getting anxious in a more localised way
MN COVID-19 vidcasts
A collection of Metro North-specific COVID video podcasts, appears to still be updating daily
Overview of COVID-19
A lecture from Professor Paul Johnson (ID physician in Melbourne). A handy summary of the epidemiology of COVID.
Requires a password: "Screenlight"
Q&A COVID-19
Q&A following on from Prof Johnson's lecture. A list of the questions covered is below
Requires a password: "Screenlight"
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- Why do some people get sick and others do not? (00:00)
- Why not do COVID screening on every patient? (02:42)
- ??Something about whether you need to alter the protocol for COVID positive women in childbirth(03:40)
- Is it safe for pregnant healthcare workers to continue working and to potentially be exposed to COVID? And are there teratogenic risks? (04:50)
- What are the protocols for managing older and vulnerable patients, including staff? (07:20)
- ??Something about shared-care with higher risks to GP's seeing COVID in the community (08:24)
- Protocol for oxygen supplementation in labour (09:34)
- If we deliver a COVID patient and get tested and are negative should we still isolate for 14 days?(10:39)
- If a colleague tests positive, should we go into isolation and get tested? (11:24)
- What if I am in contact with someone who has been in contact with a known case? (12:05)
- What do you think about the new finger print antigen diagnostic test? (12.27)

Appropriate use of Staff Shower amenities
Caboolture has two shower areas for post-shift decontamination if you're working in the COVID-y/dirtiest parts of the hospital. These are the guidelines provided by the Metro North Clinical Directorate

Online training:

LearnEM: COVID19 training and resources
A number of video podcasts (vodcasts?) covering COVID from diagnosis to ventilation. Case simulations are scheduled to open on the 14th of April and look to be promising practical and interactive applications of your newfound speciality in pandemic medicine.
Requires a free LearnEM login
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The course has been developed to provide health professionals (especially those working in rural and remote settings) the opportunity to understand how to prepare for patients presenting to their health facility and perform triage during the COVID19 Pandemic, how to undertake nursing and medical assessment of patients with possible COVID19 illness, how to use and administer oxygen and determine the level of respiratory support required for a patient, the procedure for preparing and performing intubation and ventilation in the patient with COVID19 and how to approach the difficult issue of deciding on palliation for a patient.

The resources have been developed based on the limited research available at the present time supplemented by the use of international, national and locally based guidelines from acknowledged authorities in the areas of infectious disease, emergency medicine and intensive care. As further knowledge develops in this area the teaching resources will be modified to ensure they remain up to date with the latest developments and a summary of these revisions provided to enable you to easily identify where the resources have changed.
SHPA COVID-19 ICU upskilling package
If you fancy brushing up on your critical care knowledge and skills, this is the resource for you, with a huge number of links on topics from ABG interpretation to Vasopressor guidelines
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SHPA’s COVID-19 Hospital Pharmacy ICU Upskilling Package offers a collated program of learning to provide a rapid introduction to hospital pharmacy in the intensive care setting, including medicine use, sepsis management, renal replacement therapy and the latest guidelines, considerations and possible treatment options for the management of COVID-19 patients
Future Learn - COVID in critical care
Another fantastic resource from the folks at Future Learn.
This one will give you the edge on your fellow residents on COVID management in Emergency and impress your consultants allowing you to thrive and flourish through the pandemic
Future Learn - COVID in General Practice
Yet another Future Learn resource, looking into getting sponsorship.
This one will give you a broad medical overview of COVID with a focus on diagnosis and management and make you a fountain of advice for your patients

Advice from an ED consultant on coming into an emergency term as an Intern:

PPE- know how to put it on and take it off. Seriously. I'm not joking, and they need to actually know what they are doing. 40% of HCW infections come from the crucial step of doffing. Please refer to the videos in the Looking after yourself box.
Any good resources on epidemiology and virology. This is a remarkable learning opportunity to watch policy and theories being tested and their consequences. It would be a shame to miss it.
All the basic procedural skills- IV, IDC, comfort prescribing, taking observations. If you can be active participants in providing care across the hospital - amazing!
Know the hospital systems- MedChart, discharge summaries, death certificates (death in general), iMed, etc. You are relied on by your consultants to know how to make what we want happen.
PPE- look, it's here again.

Looking after you:

Education resources:

Hamilton medical college
Join Hamilton Medical College to access e-learning resources about mechanical ventilation and ventilators. If it all hits the fan, you might be responsible for helping a patient breathe. This module will help you not panic too much.
Requires a free account
Bag-valve-mask information
Primer on the function and use of bag-valve-masks in manually ventilating patients. Great for brushing up on your techniques for resus and COVID patients

Tips

When on 3B, from inside the room, if the patient call button is pressed by consultant or whomever inside, they can communicate by speaking to the air through to the white phone on the desk. Albeit soft, makes things easier.

Clinical skills development service
Multiple useful courses for pandemic and post-pandemic medical care in Australia. Most applicable online ones are free but if you want to pay $910 for a face to face ICU simulation then go for it.
Requires a free account.
Some of the suggested modules are included below
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An Introduction to Chest Radiographs
Chest drain course for doctors
Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Introduction to Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation
Oxygen Therapy
Integrating palliative care into COVID-19 planning
Unfortunately people are dying from COVID all around the world. If the trend continues or the situation in Australia worsens rapidly, palliative care teams may become overwhelmed.
This article provides an overview of how all practitioners can prepare themselves and their patients for the COVID pandemic and future global health catastrophes

Optimus bonus
World-leading simulation packages exploring a wide range of paediatric illness, including COVID-19 related resources.

Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines
See COVID-19 guidance for maternity services, which includes the following resources:

Guideline
- Clinical Guideline: Perinatal care of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in pregnant women
- Guideline Supplement: Perinatal care of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in pregnant women
- Operational Framework: COVID-19 for maternity and neonatal services

Flowchart
- Flowchart: Triage and risk assessment of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 woman
- Flowchart: Neonate of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 mother

Short Video
- Video: COVID-19 and pregnancy
- Video: Reduce the risk - COVID-19 and pregnancy

Consumer information
- COVID-19 and pregnancy
- COVID-19 and breastfeeding

Medical Education Caboolture: COVID-19

Looking after yourself

Tips for ward call

Education resources

How to contact your MEU team