Clinical Topic Library
Targeted learning for the clinical situations that need a little more.
The Clinical Topic Library extends Beyond the Diagnosis with focused, practical learning for specific situations that may arise in healthcare.
Choose a topic relevant to your practice and return whenever you need a refresher.
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Explore the experiences that can sit beyond the clinical diagnosis, including appearance-related stigma, identity, treatment fatigue and the importance of recognising when psychosocial distress is not present. This section supports clinicians to explore individual experience without making assumptions about how a person should feel or cope.
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Explore whole-person care when children, young people and families are involved. Topics consider differing parent and child perspectives, meaningful involvement in care, consent and assent, and the cumulative burden that repeated treatment can place on childhood and family life.
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Explore how treatment goals, expected outcomes and treatment burden can shape healthcare decisions. This section supports conversations about what “successful treatment” means to the individual, what is realistically achievable and whether the potential benefit of treatment aligns with what it asks of the person.
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Strengthen everyday communication by exploring two deceptively important areas of care: checking whether a person has genuinely understood what happens next, and avoiding reassurance that unintentionally dismisses or minimises their experience.
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Explore how dignity, choice and involvement can be protected during clinical photography and sensitive examinations. These topics consider consent as an ongoing process and encourage clinicians to recognise how routine healthcare practices may be experienced by the person receiving care.
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Apply the Beyond the Diagnosis approach to specific conditions and healthcare experiences. Release 1 includes port-wine stains and capillary malformations, cerebral palsy, chronic wounds and visible skin conditions, genetic conditions affecting appearance, cleft lip and palate, alopecia and hair loss, hearing loss and hearing devices, and vitiligo.
Each topic focuses on what the diagnosis alone cannot tell you — including individual priorities, social and family context, treatment burden, communication and healthcare experience — rather than teaching diagnosis or medical management