Surgery; Accident and Emergency Medicine; Intensive Care Medicine; Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine (U01939)

? Credit Points : 30 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : MED-5-surgery

Clinical teaching in General Surgery will be based at the bedside, in the clinic and in the operating theatre and students will become actively involved in the daily activities of their base units and become an important part of the clinical team. Most of the week in the Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine attachment will be spent in the operating theatre with one-to- one teaching. The Intensive Care attachment will give students insight into the case or the critically ill patient. Much of the time will be spent in intensive care and high dependency care wards. Teaching will take place at the bedside and through a series of tutorials and computer based learning scenarios. The Accident and Emergency attachment give ample opportunity to acquire first hand experience in the management of a wide spectrum of acutely ill and injured patients.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

MBChB, (Medicine, Schedule R)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 5th year

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 20 hour(s) per week for 40 weeks

? Additional Class Information : Eight week full-time clinical instruction comprising attachments in General Surgery (4 weeks), accident and Emergency Medicine (2 weeks), Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine (1 week) and Intensive Care Medicine (1 week).

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course incorporating general surgery, anaesthesia and intensive care, pain medicine and emergency medicine is designed to prepare the student for common clinical scenarios that are likely to be encountered in the pre-registration year and in general clinical practice.

Assessment Information

In-course assessment in General Surgery, Accident and Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine and Critical Care Medicine will together contribute 10 marks to the overall 40 marks for Yr 5 in-course assessment. Each element of the course will involve a continuous assessment component. There will also be an end-of-course exam which will integrate all aspects of the course including vertical themes and will test the core factual knowledge outlined in this study guide with questions based on clinical situations that students would be expected to have experienced during their attachments. This may involve data interpretation, clinical photographs, scans, X-rays, charts, etc.

Exam times

Diet	Diet Month	Paper Code	Paper Name	Length
1ST	January	1	-	1 hour(s) 30 minutes
1ST	March	1	-	1 hour(s) 30 minutes
1ST	May	1	-	1 hour(s) 30 minutes
1ST	October	1	-	1 hour(s) 30 minutes
1ST	September	1	-	1 hour(s) 30 minutes