Review, Revision and Diploma Examination (P01442)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : MED-P-P01442

To review and revise the content and delivery of the prior 7 courses in the programme, seeking feedback from students on delivery and providing additional tutorials in areas of concern.
To assess, by 3 examinations, the students understanding of the programme content over all prior 7 modules.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Honours degree in relevant biological science and two years experience in a relevant health provision environment

Subject Areas

Home subject area

General Courses (Medicine), (Medicine, Schedule R)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 35 hour(s) per week for 1 weeks

? Additional Class Information : The course will be delivered as a series of tutorials, spot tests and assessment exercise as a one-week residential course in Edinburgh with the last day devoted to formal written examinations.

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

This course provides students with the opportunity to seek input in tutorial format in any of the fields covered to date on the course and to provide feedback on the delivery of these.

The examination will assess the students understanding of the programme to date and their ability to communicate this. For the purposes of the exam

Assessment Information

Three written examinations will be set and account for 40% of the overall mark for the first two years of the course.

Paper 1 (20% of the exam marks): 10 mandatory short answer questions
each question will display the number of marks it has been allocated
questions will be drawn from the entire course content

For papers 2 &3 Quality, Information Systems and Future Developments are fundamental and questions on these aspects may be asked in any paper. The other course elements are grouped as follows:

Group 1. Donation of Blood and Tissue
Group 2. Components and Products
Group 3. Clinical Transfusion Practice: