Postgraduate Course: Cardiology (GMED11070)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Clinical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course will allow students to develop a deeper level of knowledge and understanding in Cardiology. Individual speciality tutors will use increasingly complex clinical case studies to broaden knowledge. They will guide students to appropriate seminal publications in their speciality and encourage them to present and review recent journal article in a group setting (online journal club)(e.g using Blackboard Collaborate). On-line publication review forms will also be used to assess of literature evaluation skills. Historically important, controversial, topical and novel papers will be discussed.
Students writing skills will also be enhanced through the summative assessments (a case report or review article), which should contain an appropriate review of the literature in their specialist area. Students will be encouraged to publish these pieces of work where possible. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery/Chirurgery) or equivalent. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Blocks 1-3 (Sem 1-2) |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5,
Online Activities 50,
Summative Assessment Hours 10,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
25 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Formal summative written assessment (a case report or specialist review article)- will constitute 80% of the student's grade. Online assessment will incorporate a variety of activities participation in discussion groups/ wikis, online presentation/ review of journal articles, submission of literature appraisal forms etc. will constitute (20%) of the overall course grade and is taken to represent a formative assessment of learning throughout the programme (more details in programme proposal document). |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the presentation, management and treatment of the common conditions encountered in Cardiology.
- Be able to describe and interpret basic and complex Electrocardiagrams (ECG's) and describe appropriate treatments.
- Appraise current evidence based practive in the field of Cardiology.
- Understand the principles behind Cardiac imaging and explain the rationale behidn thier usage.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Cardiology,Heart disease |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Simon Maxwell
Tel: (0131) 537 2506
Email: |
Course secretary | Mrs Krislyn Mcwilliams-Biles
Tel: (0131 5)37 2506
Email: |
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