Clinician-led
Every module is written by a practising clinician. There is no ghost-written content and no repackaged slide decks.
About
Teaching led by a practising clinician
Manchester Medical Academy exists to give critical care teams education they can rely on — written and delivered by the clinician who teaches it.
Your instructor
Dr Yasser Tolba
Dr Yasser Tolba is the clinician behind Manchester Medical Academy. He writes and delivers every lecture, course and resource in the catalogue personally, so that the teaching stays consistent in voice, current in content, and anchored in real clinical practice rather than theory.
His teaching covers critical care, anaesthesia and emergency & acute medicine — the overlapping disciplines that look after patients at their sickest. The material is designed for mixed clinical teams, because that is how these patients are actually cared for: by doctors, nurses and specialist practitioners working together.
The Academy was founded on a simple observation: a great deal of critical care teaching is either too abstract to use on shift, or too informal to rely on. The aim here is teaching that is rigorous enough to trust and practical enough to apply the same night.
Approach
How the teaching is built
Four principles shape every course in the catalogue.
Bedside-first
Teaching starts from the decision you actually have to make, then works back to the physiology and the evidence behind it.
Team-wide
Material is pitched for doctors, nurses and specialists together, without diluting the clinical detail for any of them.
Kept current
Courses are reviewed and updated as guidance and practice change, and existing learners keep access to the revisions.
Curriculum
Areas of teaching
The catalogue is organised around the problems that critical care and acute teams meet most often.
- Recognition and resuscitation of the deteriorating patient
- Airway management and the conduct of anaesthesia
- Mechanical ventilation and respiratory support
- Shock states, vasoactive therapy and haemodynamic monitoring
- Sepsis and the acute medical emergencies
- Organ support and the critically ill patient journey
Teaching for your department?
Courses can be delivered to trusts, departments and training programmes as closed sessions, in person or online. Get in touch to discuss dates, group sizes and tailoring the syllabus to your team.