Online Courses

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com). 6 hours teaching you can get started on straightaway and watch at your own pace. Pause, rewind and watch again for up to 12 months. Choose to buy the MSK & Chronic Pain course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

MSK & Chronic Pain NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get an update straightaway! Watch the course on-demand, anytime you like for up to 12 months. Our 6-hour course is fully chapterised so you can fit around your schedule, and do as little or as much as you like at a time. MSK & Chronic Pain NOW is packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. There are links in the console to all the Red Whale Knowledge articles for further learning.

You’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com) with 900+ written resources, including our downloadable ready written protocols, or GEMS as we like to call them, access to our online handbook and super fast search function – perfect for answering questions in or out of practice.

What’s covered?

Right now, it may feel like all our tools for managing pain are being thrown out at the same time as waiting lists are growing, this course aims to give you a whole new set of tools and revitalise your enjoyment of caring for patients with long term MSK conditions and chronic pain (yes really, we promise!). To do this we will:

• Share the science behind chronic pain and why if can only be in the brain.
• Explain how we can use this knowledge to reach a greater understanding and partnership with patients.
• Show you some skills to assess pain using a full range of biopsychosocial tools and how you can translate this assessment into supporting patients with self-care (yes, that’s right you don’t have to do all of this!).
• Build skills around promoting health behaviour change and patient activation. 
• Look at the nitty gritty of the “bad boy” drugs opiates and gabapentinoids and how, when and whether we should be deprescribing.
• Amongst other nuggets, cover the MSK big three: back pain, osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis to make sure you are bang up to date and have lots of ideas to take back to the practice.
• Give you a reference source in the handbook that covers all things MSK!