Postgraduate Course: Acute Medicine and Clinical Decision Making (GMED11072)
Course Outline
| School | School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | General Courses (Medicine) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course aims to ensure that the candidate understands how to manage the majority of common emergency medical admissions and will be taught using clinical case scenarios. It will also look at clinical decision making in the acute medical context. Clinical decision-making is an important but often neglected part of health care provision today. Psychologists have studied the process of decision making for over half a century and identified a number of theoretical frameworks that could explain the behaviours employed by physicians in everyday real life situations that affects the level of patient care. This course will explore the underlying theories and put them in to real clinical situations. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the completion of the course the student should have a broad knowledge of how to diagnose and treat common medical emergencies. They should be able to recognise and assess the sick patient, know how to perform advanced life support and how to implement ongoing care. Students should understand the main philosophical theories and processes that are relevant to clinical decision making. They will understand the barriers to effective decision making in a clinical environment and consider way to overcome these. They will discuss patient safety more widely and examine how clinical processes could be improved.
The student should:
&· Understand how to diagnose and treat common emergency medical presentations
&· Understand how to recognise the sick patient and when to call for help
&· Understand how to perform basic and advanced life support
&· Understand how to continue care for patient once the emergency has been handled
&· Understand some of the main theoretical models of decision making.
&· Understand the role of decision making in a clinical environment and barriers to effective clinical decision making
&· Reflect how patient safety may be compromised by poor decision making and ineffective healthcare environments and create strategies to overcome these.
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Assessment Information
| Formal summative written assessment will constitute 90% of the student's grade (clinical case scenarios). Online assessment (discussion boards and group work (wikis)) will constitute the other 10% of their overall course grade and is taken to represent a formative assessment of learning throughout the programme. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Keywords | Clinical Decision Making, Acute Medicine. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Eleri Williams
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Course secretary | Miss Emma Farrell
Tel: 0131 242 9167
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