Abstracts of the 3rd Annual Graduate Entry Research in Medicine Conference

Chapters

• The Obesity Paradox in Critical Care: A Systematic Review
  Jennifer Reay
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• Chloroquine and COVID
  Francesca Claridge-Owen
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• The Role of the Autophagy-Inducer Spermidine in Cardiovascular Ageing
  Isa Hassan
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• Evaluation of Type 2 Diabetes Remission and Relapse Rates after Bariatric Surgery
  Dilan Parmar, Samson Arokiyanathan
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• Video Consultation vs Face to Face Consultation in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus
  Rosie Hall, Mary Rose Harvey
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• The Role of Intermittent Fasting and Exercise in the Reduction of Diabetes Risk Factors; A Narrative Review
  Jade Wilmot
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• An Investigation into the Effect of Statins on HBA1C Levels in Pre-diabetic and Diabetic Patients
  Karar Ali, Chloe Argent
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• Bisphosphonate Prescribing Trends and Assessment of Treatment Outcomes
  Eleanor Dewhurst, Jishoden Padiachy, Omair Shabir
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• Video Consultations Uncut: A Systematic Review of the Benefits and Limitations Regarding Use as an Alternative to Face-to-Face Consultations in UK General Practice
  Mihari de Soysa
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• Experiences of West Midland Funeral Directors in arranging for GPs to complete Cremation Form 4
  Jordan Moss, John MacArtney
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• Is FibroScan® as Effective as Biopsy or MR in Quantifying Liver Disease in Diabetes?
  Louise Elizabeth Edwards, Victor Zammit
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• The role of gut-microbiome targeted therapies in the management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  Sophie Hopkins
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• Safety & Immunogenicity of Ebola Vaccine Candidates: A Systematic Review
  Chloe Argent
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• Spinal Tuberculosis in the Adult Population: A 10-Year Single-Centre Audit Performed at UHCW
  Tabitha Francis, Evangelos Vryonis, Tracey Langham, Vjeran Cajic
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• A Short Patient Clerking Teaching Intervention to Increase First Year Graduate-Entry Medical Student Self-Efficacy and Knowledge
  Alice Eaton
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• Inclusivity in GEM: What More Can We Do?
  Lina Hasisen, Cellan Liiv, Heather Morris, Andrews Nketiah, Stephanie Opara
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• A Model for Recognition, Remembrance and Reflection Sessions for Medical Students Working during the Covid-19 Global Pandemic
  Robert Hooper
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• Resuscitation for Medical Disciplines Warwick: A Year of Progress
  Vrinda Ohri, Hannah Morgan
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• Lectures to my Ears – A Systematic Review into the Potential of Podcasts in Undergraduate Medical Education
  Abbie Tutt
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• Medical Students’ Experiences in the Co-Development of Care Companion, a Personalised Web-based Resource to Support Informal Caring
  Adrian McGrath, Rhiannon White, Emma Scott, Jeremy Dale
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• Exploring the role of video-enhanced primary care consultations using diagnostic equipment
  Rani Issac
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• Systematic review: can induced pluripotent stem cells replace embryonic stem cells in Parkinson’s disease treatment?
  Favian Narrainen
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• Brain Tumour Diagnosis: Outcomes in 120 Biopsy and Craniotomy Procedures
  Gabriela Anna Barzyk, Sandeep Solanki, Gopiga Thanabalasundaram
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• What is the Effect of Hyaluronan-Enriched Embryo Transfer Medium on Assisted Reproductive Outcome?
  Amy Sewell, Lucy Chapman
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• Does Embryo Development Differ between Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and a Control Group? A Retrospective Cohort Study
  Emily Wade, Geraldine Hartshorne
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• Lack of Evidence for Functional LHCGR in Human Cultured Endometrial Stromal Cells
  Mann, Oliver N, Brosens, Jan J, Brighton, Paul
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• Effect of Epidemic Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers on Pregnancy Outcomes: A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
  Stefani Eames, Tabbasum Zaman, Joshua Odendaal, Bassel Wattar, Siobhan Quenby
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• A Retrospective Audit of Axillary Lymph Node Assessment and Treatment at UHCW Breast Unit
  Laura Wheeler
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• Effective Oncology teaching to Medical Undergraduates: A Systematic Review
  Natasha Bechman
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• Isolation of Cell-Free Tumour DNA from Peripheral Blood: A Method Development Study in Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumours
  Rhiannon White
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• How Long do People Stay at Secure Forensic-Psychiatric Units and What Factors Influence Length of Stay?
  Aoife Moffatt, Beth Agnew, Vivek Furtado
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• The HEALTH Passport: A Secondary School Approach
  Emma Brandstatter, Natasha Bechman
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• Do Local Authorities Benchmark Fairly? Using Machine Learning to Develop a Model of Nearest Neighbours to Improve Benchmarking
  Gursharun Kaur Hayer, Saran Shantikumar
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• How are Self-Triage and Symptom Checkers Tools Being Used During the COVID-19 pandemic?
  Isobel Roberts Rajoo, Vanashree Sexton
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• The HEALTH Passport: Trainee teacher Evaluation of a Primary School Approach
  Natasha Bechman, Emma Brandstatter
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• Audit on Initiating and Monitoring Methotrexate in the George Elliot Rheumatology Clinic
  Ali Ridha
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• The Impact of Pre-Operative Biologic Therapy on Post-Operative Surgical Outcomes in Ulcerative Colitis – A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  Jasmine Zanelli, Subashini Chandrapalan, Abhilasha Patel, Ramesh Arasaradnam
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• Changes to Surgical Procedure in COVID-Positive and Suspected Patients
  Joshua Clayton
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• Get into The Digital Age: A Patient Satisfaction Survey Investigating Pre- and Post-Operative Information Provision in Lower Limb Surgery
  Maxwell Renna
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• Why do Medical Students Refuse the Influenza Vaccine, and what Can be Done to Improve Vaccination Rates?
  Georgia Gray
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• A Clinical Audit Cycle Examining Inhaler Prescriptions for Asthmatics at Brookside Surgery. Is COVID affecting Asthma Care?
  Jasmine Zanelli, Laura Wheeler
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• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) Outcomes in HIV/AIDS Patients: A Systematic Review
  Todd James Cooper, Beth Woodward
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• How Contaminated is your Mobile Telephone? A Presentation on a Systematic Review of Healthcare Workers’ Mobile Phones as a Vector for Cross-Contamination of Infection in Clinical Environments
  Katie McLean
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• Effects of Incentives and Subsidies on Tuberculosis Testing Rates in Rural Philippines
  Seung Gwan Ryoo, Lincoln Leehang Lau
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• What are the Effects of Hypertension as an Existing Comorbidity on Mortality Rate in Patients with COVID-19? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  Elena Whiteman
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• Is a Single Plate Enough? Primary Surgical Fixation Methods for Distal Femoral Fractures
  Hannah Blades, Jayne Ward
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• Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction following use of a Supraglottic Airway Device in General Anaesthesia
  Serkan Cakir, Cyprian Mendonca
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• Endoprosthetic Reconstruction & Intramedullary Nailing for Pathological Fractures of the Proximal Femur: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survival and Complications
  Sallu Dawo, Birgit Fruhstorfer
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• Comparing Outcomes of Plate versus Screw Osteosynthesis of Scaphoid Non-union: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  Mary Rose Harvey, Rosie Hall
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• Troponin Measurement in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review
  Caleb R Johnson, Nigel E Drury, Dawn R Collins
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• Barriers to Equality in Healthcare Faced by Sex Workers: A Systematic Review
  Chloe Haynes
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• Exploring the Use of a Clinical Ethics Service in an NHS Trust
  Katie-Louise Berwick, Anne-Marie Slowther
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• Experiences and Attitudes of the LGBTQ+ Community on Care/Nursing Homes
  Laura Skeldon
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• Are Female Patients More Satisfied with Female Doctors? A Systematic Review
  Jennifer R Shone, Helen Nolan
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• Facilitators and Barriers to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Acceptability among Ethnic Minority Men-who-have-Sex-with-Men (EMMSM): A Systematic Review
  Adrian McGrath, Tommer Spence, Frances Griffiths
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• Utilising Features of Metabolic Syndrome to Cost-Effectively Improve MAFLD Diagnosis Rates in Intelligent Liver Function Testing (iLFT)
  Cassandra X Baiano, Jennifer H Nobes, Madeleine M Caven, Iain MacPherson, John F Dillon
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• Dipeptidyl Peptidase-IV Inhibitors for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Treatment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review
  Jessica Quimpo
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• The Use of Honey in the Prevention and Treatment of Radiation/Chemotherapy-Induced Oral Mucositis in Paediatric Patients
  Zohaib Sajid
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• Is Sub-Dissociative Ketamine a Safe and Effective Analgesic in Paediatrics for Acute Pain? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  James Michael Barrett, Andrea Sargent, Helena Coker
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• Catching Us When We Fall: A Rapid Evaluation of the Non-Fatal Overdose Response in Dundee, Scotland
  Cassandra X Baiano, Oana Ciocanel, Emma Fletcher, Ann Erikson
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• HealthSHIP (Health Students Helping on Pandemics): An Open-Source Volunteering Platform Written for Healthcare Students, by Healthcare Students
  Ronald MacDonald, Cassandra Baiano
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• Virtual Reality Simulation – The Future of Orthopaedic Training? A Systematic Review and Narrative Analysis
  Elinor Clarke
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• The (Future) Doctor Will See You Now: Piloting a Longitudinal Virtual Patient in Medical Education, Simulating General Practice
  Thomas Dale MacLaine
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• The Experiences of Medical Students, Carers, and a Digital Design Company in the Co-Development of Care Companion, a Personalised Web-based Resource to Support Informal Caring
  Rhiannon White, Adrian McGrath, Emma Scott, Jeremy Dale
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• CAMHS to AMHS: How Satisfied are Young People with their Transition from Child to Adult Mental Health Services?
  Cameron Meades
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• Spatial Navigation Testing for Dementia Diagnosis in a Setting of Low Literacy and Multilingualism
  Felicity Davies, Suvarna Alladi
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• Prevalence of Amnesia in Individuals Committing Crime: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis
  George Hawker
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• Can Improving Quality of Sleep Reduce the Symptoms of Cancer-Related Fatigue? A Systematic Review
  Rogan Dean
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• Sleep Quality and Duration and Development of Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Prospective Studies
  Tehreem Khan, Francesco Cappuccio
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• A Meta-Ethnographic Review of Factors Relating to Vaccine Hesitancy in the European Parental Population
  Lidia Cilcic, Emily Róisín Reid
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• Identification of GP Referral Patterns in which Malignant Melanomas were Referred as Non-Urgent
  Yasmeen Hassan Al Sadek, Richard Motley, Stela Ziaj
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• Experiences with the Enhanced Return to Play Guidelines in Rugby Union - are they being Successfully Implemented Across Levels of the Game and are they Protecting Players?
  Imogen McMurray
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• Does Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke lead to Increased Severity of Illness in Infants Hospitalised with Bronchiolitis?
  Kayleigh Nicholson
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• A Systematic Review of Physical Activity and its Effect on Burnout and/or Quality of Life in Medical Students
  Charlotte Taylor, Emma Scott
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• What is Known about the Career Outcomes of UK Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Students: A Scoping Review
  Emma Andrews
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• What is the Effect of a Peer-Teaching Programme at Medical School on Student Performance? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  Clarissa Brierley, Leila Ellis, Emily Róisín Reid
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• Medical Specialties that Interest Students and Why
  Lauren Grahame
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• ScotGEM Stories: Sharing Student Experiences
  Andrew MacFarlane, Callum George, Joseph Garnett
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• The Use of Simulation in Medical Student Education on the Topic of Breaking Bad News
  Thomas Dale MacLaine, Nicholas Lowe, Jeremy Dale
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