VMP Genetics offers a range of live educational resources and fashions the teaching format and style to the needs of the audience.
LECTURES:
- Metabolic disorders, that includes any combination of:
- Biochemistry, physiology, phenotype, diagnosis, and management, and related topics
- Metabolic symptoms, that includes:
- A description of the symptom
- A practical approach that leads to a diagnosis, along with a tiered approach to testing
- A guide to first-aid management, where appropriate, while waiting for a diagnosis
WORKSHOPS:
- Groups of lectures that are specialty-relevant, or clustered together to accommodate a clinical or training requirement
- Half-day or full-day in length
AVAILABLE TOPICS (and growing…):
- An introduction to metabolic disease
- The “metabolic crisis”
- Metabolic approach to abnormal biochemistry (metabolic acidosis, hyperammonemia, hypoglycemia)
- Metabolic approach to neonatal seizures
- Approach to metabolic liver disease in the neonate
- Pain: Consider a metabolic cause
- The Newborn Screen: What a clinician needs to know
- A Metabolic Clue: Blood ammonia
- A Metabolic Clue: Blood CK
- A Metabolic Clue: Blood glucose
- A Metabolic Clue: Blood homocysteine
- A Metabolic Clue: Blood lactate
- A Metabolic Clue: Urinalysis
- Emergency management of a metabolic crisis
- Metabolic Diseases: Pediatric board review (parts I and II)
DISEASE-ORIENTED LECTURE:
- Customized to your needs