
UCEM have awarded a Fellowship of the College for the best caption for a photograph of Mike Cadogan at the Essentials conference… Find out who the Fellow is and read the winning caption right here.
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UCEM have awarded a Fellowship of the College for the best caption for a photograph of Mike Cadogan at the Essentials conference… Find out who the Fellow is and read the winning caption right here.

Visual Aided Questions (VAQ) test a candidates ability to process visually presented information such as X-rays, pathology results and clinical images.

A 45 year old orchard worker presents following an accidental exposure to organophosphate spray. He looks anxious and complains of abdominal pain, vomiting and weakness.
On examination you note muscle fasciculations, lacrimation, salivation, and widespread wheeze on chest auscultation.

A 2 year old child with severe dehydration arrives in the emergency department. He is floppy and unresponsive. Soon after arrival he suffers a PEA (Pulseless Electrical Activity) arrest.

A surgical registrar would like to admit an 85 year old woman with constipation to your observation ward

A 2 year old child who has inserted a plastic bead into his right nostril is brought to the emergency department by his mother. The child is not distressed. Part of the bead is visualised high up in the nostril.

You are managing a 26 year old man from a motorbike crash. He has an isolated open book pelvic fracture. The patient has already received 2000ml of crystalloid and 6 units of blood.

An elderly woman with dementia is sent to your emergency department from a nursing home. In the last 3 days she has had a change in behaviour and is acutely agitated

A 16 year old woman is brought to the emergency department by her parents who are concerned about her recent loss of weight. She is known to have an eating disorder and currently has a BMI of 15
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