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AAA screening
| Clinical Discipline(s)/Organ System(s) Population Health, Cardiovascular System, General Practice | Progress Test Topic(s) General duties |
Description
Your Primary Healthcare Organization (PHO) is debating the pros and cons of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). You are asked to prepare a position paper for the Board.
Progress Test-Type Questions: Question 1Applied Science for Medicine
- Anatomy of the abdominal aorta, its branches and relations
- Microanatomy of the vasculature including elastic and muscular arteries
- Pathogenesis of aortic aneurysms
- Imaging modalities for assessment of vasculature
- Physiology of fluid dynamics and vascular mechanics
- Understand the importance of using evidence-based medicine
- Understand the principles of cost-effectiveness
- Understand sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value
- Anatomy of the abdominal aorta, its branches and relations
- Microanatomy of the vasculature including elastic and muscular arteries
- Pathogenesis of aortic aneurysms
- Imaging modalities for assessment of vasculature
- Physiology of fluid dynamics and vascular mechanics
- Understand the importance of using evidence-based medicine
- Understand the principles of cost-effectiveness
- Understand sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value
Clinical and Communication Skills
- Be able to carry out a comprehensive literature review in relation to a health topic
- Be able to critically evaluate data
- Be able to evaluate a screening tool
- Be able to carry out a comprehensive literature review in relation to a health topic
- Be able to critically evaluate data
- Be able to evaluate a screening tool
Personal and Professional Skills
- Be able to work with other health care professionals to collectively decide on a recommendation
- Understand the role of the doctor as health advocate for the population they serve, and appreciate the tensions that may arise between advocating for the population and treating individual patients
- Communication skills - writing and oral presentation
- Be able to work with other health care professionals to collectively decide on a recommendation
- Understand the role of the doctor as health advocate for the population they serve, and appreciate the tensions that may arise between advocating for the population and treating individual patients
- Communication skills - writing and oral presentation
Population Health
- The epidemiology of abdominal aortic aneurysm - who is most likely to be affected, what is the natural history of this condition, what the modifiable risk factors are for the condition
- Screening - the difference between opportunistic and organised screening, what is required for screening to be effective, factors influencing cost-effectiveness, the advantages and disadvantages of locating screening in primary health care
- Organisation of primary health care in New Zealand - what is a PHO, how it is funded and governed
- The epidemiology of abdominal aortic aneurysm - who is most likely to be affected, what is the natural history of this condition, what the modifiable risk factors are for the condition
- Screening - the difference between opportunistic and organised screening, what is required for screening to be effective, factors influencing cost-effectiveness, the advantages and disadvantages of locating screening in primary health care
- Organisation of primary health care in New Zealand - what is a PHO, how it is funded and governed
Conditions to be considered relating to this scenario
Common
aortic aneurysm
aortic aneurysm
