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Joint Injection Course & Soft Tissue injections

This practical and interactive course will equip you with the skills and confidence to assess, examine, and inject commonly affected joints in primary care. The sessions are designed for GPs and clinicians wishing to enhance their musculoskeletal skills and meet training requirements.

Course Includes:

• Examination & Injection Techniques for:
  • Shoulder (ACJ, GHJ, rotator cuff tendinopathy)
  • Elbow (tennis/golfer’s elbow, diagnostic tests, eccentric exercises)
  • Hand & Wrist (trigger finger, De Quervain’s, carpal tunnel, OA base of thumb)
  • Knee (OA knee, lateral and anterior approaches)
• Mechanism of action of corticosteroids
• Pharmaceutical agents
• Patient selection & consent

Facilitator:

Dr Soon Lim is a GP & has delivered minor surgery, minor surgery update, and joint injection courses to GPs across the UK, including programmes run with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). He has been the director of minor surgery for multiple RCGP faculties including Beds & Herts, Thames Valley, East Anglia, Midland, Essex, Leicester, Vale of Trent and NE London. He has also run courses for RCGP S London and the Events Department of the central college. He was co-author of the RCGP standards for teaching minor surgery.

He has held several senior leadership positions within the Association of Surgeons in Primary Care (ASPC), including Academic Lead, Education Lead, Vice President, and President. In his current role as Education Lead for the ASPC, he provides oversight of educational events and continues to support clinicians through structured, skills-based training.

Soon has been a medicolegal expert, specialising in community-based surgery writing reports on instructions from counsel for both defence and claimant. He has worked in clinical minor surgery roles in general practice, community clinics and an acute hospital trust over the past 30+ years.

Course Structure:

Online module (details shared on booking):

Basics Examination Techniques
Options for Treatment
Adjunctive Treatments
Consent
Patient Selection
Pharmaceutical actions of corticosteroids

Practical Session (2.5 hours):

Practical session with everyone having hands on access to joint manikins (low number of delegates to assure hands on experience and close observation)

Shoulders
Elbows
Hands
Wrists
Knees

Examination and Injection techniques demonstrated and then delegates will practice under observation.

Waiting list for joint injection course: In case you missed a recent course, or our current course is full, you can joint our Joint Injection reserve list by clicking here: Joint injections in Primary Care – Waiting List The Deepings Practice

Important Notes

• Receipts issued on payment.
• Cancellation policies apply – see www.gpsimulation.co.uk/cancellation-policy/.
• Course fees may be reclaimable from study budgets (subject to approval).