Dundee Medicine's List: Infectious diseases

This site contains guidelines registered with NHS Tayside and is intended solely for use by healthcare professionals to aid the treatment of patients currently within the care of NHS Tayside.

The British Assoication for Sexual Health and HIV is a professional body for those practicing sexual health including the management of STIs and HIV in the UK. The site includes links to guidelines and information about courses etc,

See the UK Clinical Virology Network to brush up your knowledge of viruses. The site is divided into 3 sections, Virology for All, Virology for GPS and Specialist Virology and includes helpful links to clinical protocols and guidelines.

Don’t quite understand Gram Stain? Look at this link to the Microbiolgybytes blog Microbiology video library which gives a helpful overview.

The aim of the Pause Website is to ensure that medical practitioners will be prudent prescribers of antibiotics and will promote prudent use of antibiotics in whatever clinical context they are working in.


The objectives of the Pause website are to:

*Construct a framework of learning outcomes that defines a prudent prescriber.
*Promote reflective learning to ensure practitioners maintain and develop their expertise in prudent prescribing.
*Provide flexible web-based learning resources and assessments that will enable undergraduate medical students to achieve clearly defined learning outcomes in prudent prescribing, for their level of expertise.
*Create a collaborative web-based forum for sharing experience and learning resources between providers of education in the context of prudent prescribing.
*Provide an exemplary learning platform in prudent antibiotic prescribing for the development of other healthcare professionals.