30/11/2022
🗓️ Career in Obs and Gynae Event 🗓️
We have some amazing speakers tonight so please link in to find out more about a career in Obs and Gynae!
Speakers: Dr Tracey Sturgeon, Dr Sarah McRobbie, Dr Sinead Cook 🧑⚕️
🗓️ Wednesday 30th November
🕰️ 07:00-08:30
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09/11/2022
AUPS and Aberdeen Obs & Gynae in collaboration with Down’s Syndrome Scotland are bringing you an Education Evening about Down’s Syndrome. In hopes to raise awareness about the condition and the effects it has on families, we will be joined by parents, kind enough to share their experiences and journeys.
Come join us at 6pm on Monday 14th November in the Polwarth Auditorium to hear and learn more. We hope to see you there!
Lots of love,
AUPS 👶🏼💛
01/05/2022
We’re so excited to announce our new committee for 2022/23!🤰 🧑🍼🫄👨⚕️👩⚕️
President - Tina Young
Vice President - Shuen Wong
Secretary - Erin McDonald
Treasurer - Fiona Craigen
Social Media Team - Joanna Anderson, Aneesah Mohammed, Anna Stylianides
Fundraising Team - Weronika Kukulska, Natthaya Eiamampai
Upper Year Rep - Mansi Chavan
Lower Year Rep - Ellie Ferguson
11/03/2022
🌟 Virtual Seminar to celebrate International Women’s Day 2022 and celebrate the 4th anniversary of the Aberdeen Centre for Women’s Health Research 🌟
23/02/2022
Calling all 4th and 5th years! We need your help by participating as a tutor for our online 3rd year OSCE event, taking place on Wednesday 2nd of march at 6pm. Marking schemes and scenarios will be provided.
Please sign up with the Google form below
AUPS and Obs&Gynae Third Year Clinical Skills Event (4th/5th Year sign up)
Please fill out the form below to help at our clinical skills event! This will take place Wednesday 2nd March at 6PM online and is free to attend. Due to demand this event is only open to third years! This event is cohosted by the Paediatrics and Obs&Gynae societies. We will have groups of two third...
04/04/2021
For Sexual Sunday we are moving on from possible STIs and on to contraceptive options to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
We will start off with the combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP)!
The combination of ethynyl estradiol and progestogen (synthetic progesterone) inhibits a woman from ovulating.
It is now recommend that pill have their packets run back-to-back or have a pill-free ‘period’ for a few days instead of a week. An advantage of running the pills packets back-to-back is that if a couple days are missed then it can be used as the break.
Side effects are:
- Breast tenderness
- Nausea
- Headache
- Irregular bleeding in first 3 months
Absolute contraindications for the COCP (i.e. UKMEC 4 conditions) are:
- >35 years old and >15 cigarettes/day
- BMI>35
- Migraine with aura
- History of VTE or thrombogenic mutation
- History of stroke or ischemic heart disease
- Breast feeding
28/03/2021
Another common STI to look at on Sexual Sunday is Trichomonas vaginalis.
10-30% of infected women are symptomatic with profuse, thin, greenish vaginal discharge which can mimic BV. But in the case of trichomonas women report soreness which can also be in the form of dyspareunia and dysuria.
You can do a PCR vaginal swab as well as point of care microscopy. On microscopy trichomoniasis has its characteristic flagellum as a protozoan parasite.
Treatment involves metronidazole 200mg x3 times a day for 7 days. As with all metronidazole prescriptions remember alcohol should be avoided.
Men are asymptotic and are not investigated since their urine test is not validated. However male partners should be treated due to the risk of reinfecting their partner and their long-term health outcomes.
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