Undergraduate Course: Process of Care 2 (Alberta route) (MBCH10023)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Medical School |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 5 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 180 |
ECTS Credits | 90 |
| Summary | In Year 5 - Process of Care 2, Alberta students move on from the generalities of clinical practice to encountering a wide variety of key medical specialties and learn a large number of new skills. The specialities and teaching in Year 5 are directed increasingly towards future clinical practice. Students will come across the beginning of life and the end of life and many of the acute and chronic conditions encountered in between. As well as clinical skills, student will increase their experience of academia through special studies and teaching practice. The Student Selected Component 5b require students to work mainly in small groups, contributing to peer assisted learning. This might be teaching on an established project such as the practice OSCE for students in earlier years, or developing something new. Students build on the knowledge and skills and increasingly engage in everyday clinical practice within the limits of their competence and under careful supervision. By the end of the course students should be able to assist a doctor in providing clinical care.
Teaching and learning methods remain varied. Towards the end of the academic year, students go to Canada for the Alberta attachment, which offers 16 weeks clinical clerkship experience over the summer between Years 5 and 6. |
| Course description |
The modules include Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, General Practice, Neurosciences, Haematology, Oncology, Palliative Care, Breast Diseases, Renal, Urology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology (ENT), and Student Selected Component 5b.
The teaching and learning experiences are varied and include: lectures, large group interactive plenaries, small group tutorials, directed reading using a range of materials including online lectures and computer based learning packages, anatomy practicals, resuscitation, clinical skills and communication workshops, clinical teaching in GP surgeries, clinics, wards, operating theatres, imaging and investigative labs. The SSC 5b is a group project aimed at developing the learning of others.
The curriculum and its teaching and learning methods continue to guide the development of self-directed learning. This requires both challenge and support. Less of the required knowledge is provided in face to face or online lectures but there will be clear guidance to prioritise students' reading and these methods are complemented by interactive tutorials, often in the clinical setting. The portfolio case reports direct students to explore in depth the needs of individual patients, and to reflect on and critique current approaches to management. Direct Observations offer students another opportunity to take responsibility for their own learning and emulates the requirements of postgraduate medical training for new doctors. Students can challenge themselves to be observed in new tasks, capture the feedback and store it in their portfolio to help them recall it and use it to improve their performance. At the end of modules tutors review the evidence of performance with students and provide additional written and verbal narrative comments on general progress, with suggestions for developments.
There are many other opportunities for feedback, described below. Students are expected to reflect on this feedback, discuss it with their Personal Tutors and use it to further direct and regulate their own learning.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Students will pay their own MCCQE exam fees and any preparatory material for this exam.
Students will pay for flights to and from Canada. |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 1. As a scholar and scientist, apply the principles, methods and knowledge of the relevant disciplines of academic study to a broad range of defined specialities, and take a scholarly and scientific approach to questions in patient care, medical research and health service delivery. More specifically: 1. Biomedical Sciences (BMS) apply to a broad range of defined specialties, the biomedical scientific principles, method and knowledge relating to relevant sciences including anatomy, biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, nutrition, pathology and physiology. 2. Psychological Aspects of Medicine (PAM) recognise and assess important psychological and behavioural aspects of health, illness and disease; and respond appropriately to these aspects, using strategies such as explanation and advice to address them. 3. Social Sciences and Public Health (SSPH) implement, at a clinical level, knowledge of how to understand the experience of illness and illness behaviour for a broad range of defined specialties; and describe how to prevent disease, prolong life and promote health through the organised efforts of society, analyse a population's health problems, establish the causes and effects of these problems and assist appropriately in implementing effective solutions. 4. Evidence-Based Medicine and Research (EBM&R) use the best available medical evidence, found through a systematic search and appraisal of the relevant information sources, to inform their clinical thinking for a broad range of defined specialties; and develop new knowledge or personal understanding through the application of basic research methods and skills.
- 2. As a practitioner, undertake initial assessment of patients with presentations relating to a broad range of specialities, propose clinical management, review and ongoing care, and seeking help from colleagues appropriately. More specifically:
- 3. As a professional, take a reflective and self-directed approach to the study of medicine, demonstrate professional judgment and understanding of the ethical, professional and legal responsibilities expected in clinical practice, participate in a multi-professional team, teach others, and contribute to enhancing patient care whilst paying attention to personal health, wellbeing and professional development. More specifically: 11. Medical Ethics, Legal And Professional Responsibilities (MELPR) demonstrate understanding of how to practise medicine, in a broad range of defined specialties and contexts, within an ethical framework, with insight and compassion, according to the legal requirements and professional expectations of medical practice in the UK. 12. Personal Professional Development (PPD) take a reflective and self-directed approach to the ongoing study of medicine in a broad range of defined specialties and contexts, work effectively in a team, and develop others' learning in order to enhance safe patient care, maximise effectiveness and enjoyment.
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Reading List
| All information on learning resources available to students is held on the virtual learning environment (Learn). |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
MBChB graduates will gain the University of Edinburgh's Graduate Attributes (https://www.ed.ac.uk/employability/graduate-attributes) and will meet all of the General Medical Council's outcomes for graduates (https://www.gmc-uk.org/education/standards-guidance-and-curricula/standards-and-outcomes/outcomes-for-graduates). |
| Special Arrangements |
Students are required to complete an Alberta attachment commencing in the final two weeks of this course.
Edinburgh will provide a travel and subsistence subsidy to students for the period of time spent in Alberta.
In addition students will be permitted to be in Canada for a few weeks in the spring of 5th year to attend residency interviews. |
| Keywords | Alberta,Pediatrics,Dermatology,Haematology,Obstetrics,Gynaecology,Oncology,Ophthalmology,Renal |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Colin Duncan
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Course secretary | Miss Judith Bryce
Tel: (0131) 242 6476
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