Overview

This module will take approximately 30 minutes to complete and includes the following elements. 

• Background
  • Including cause, prevalence, and prognosis
• Diagnosis
  • How to assess someone with possible syphilis and differential diagnosis
• Management
  • How to manage syphilis and options for referral
• Optional quiz to assess your learning from the course
• An audit suggestion
• A list of useful links and resources for further reading

Goals

During this course you will learn to:

• Recognize the presenting features of syphilis in primary care.
• Refer all people with suspected syphilis to a genito-urinary medicine (GUM) clinic.
• Seek specialist advice about appropriate investigations, interpretation of results and further management of people who decline referral to a GUM clinic.

Audit Suggestions

Topics covered